Play Dough Pizzeria

Play Dough Pizzeria

Get creative with play dough, card and toppings to create some delicious pizza and develop little one’s creativity!

EYFS Areas Developed:

  • Physical: fine motor skill development through pressing toppings into the dough
  • Expressive Arts & Design: developing imagination through play based on real life experiences, using objects to represent food
  • Understanding the World: in pretend play, imitating everyday actions and events from own experiences

The other day I got a package in the post that came in a flat, square box just like a pizza box. I made a pizza label to go onto the box and cut out a cardboard circle as a pizza base, putting it into a pie pan for extra authenticity.

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I used some red play dough to act as the tomato sauce as I thought it would help the toppings to stick onto the pizza.

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The toppings we used were red buttons (which I thought looked like pepperoni), green ribbon pieces (resembling green pepper or spinach) and finely cut yellow paper (for cheesiness).

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I try and include Sophia in my cooking as much as possible and she knew what to do with the resources to create a pizza. Complete with a chef’s hat!

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We started the activity outside but it was a little windy and the toppings started to blow away so we moved back inside!

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Sophia poked, pressed and prodded the toppings into the pizza to create her tasty pizza.

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We then took it to her play kitchen to put into the oven to cook. We spoke about the oven being hot and to be very careful.

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Whilst it was cooking we arranged our plates and napkins ready to enjoy our feast!

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I cut the pizza up using scissors to create individual slices that we then pretended to devour.

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Sophia really got into the role-play and would keep pausing to rub her tummy saying “yummy” or to dab her mouth with her napkin.

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I love how ‘complete’ this activity is. Going right from creating the pizza to role-playing eating it and eventually washing up.

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It’s a great way to play with your child and to model all kinds of skills, such as cooking, oven safety, table manners and tidying away.

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Ways you could extend this activity:

  • ask older children to write a menu of different choices of toppings
  • introduce money to the role-play, pricing up the pizza and using money to pay

We loved this activity and can’t wait to create some more pizza soon!

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