Since I’ve started home schooling my two children I’m constantly looking to link our crafts in with fun educational activities. In the coming weeks we are going to be looking at writing and reading instructions, so this pizza Craft is an excellent (and fun) tie in activity for writing instructions in a recipe. I’ve included a printable recipe worksheet which can be downloaded completely free. Alternatively you can leave a small donation if you feel able to help support my blog but that’s completely optional!
Once we’re finished with our pizzas we’re going to pop them into the cupboard ready to cut up and use as visual aids for learning fractions!
Here’s what we used
- Paper plates
- Red and light brown paint
- Coloured paper (colours depending on your toppings!)
- Glue
- Paintbrush
- Scissors
How to Make our paper plate pizza craft with recipe worksheet
Start by getting your child to paint the base of their pizza. My son and I used a light burnt orange colour to paint the outer rim of the pizza as the pizza base. We then used red paint to paint on the red tomato sauce. Once your paper plate is painted, pop it aside to dry whilst you make your toppings.
Now it’s time to decide what toppings you’re going to use. For our first topping we cut out several thin yellow strips of paper to make cheese. We then sprinkled and glued them all over our paper plate pizza.
Cut out and stick on your first pizza topping, we went for some little ham circles.
Now you’re going to add another topping. We decided to make some mushrooms for our pizza. We used foam to make them look a little more 3D but you can absolutely just use paper!
Add any other optional toppings to complete your pizza and then pop it aside to dry whilst we complete the worksheet
Print out the worksheet that you find ready for download below. Ask your child to draw a picture In the top box and then to fill out what ingredients and equipment are needed to make their custom pizzas along with instructions.
