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Literacy Activities in the Kitchen: Rocket Pizza

April 1, 2015 •

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Our Playful Preschool Series  continues with a space theme this week.

Building literacy skills in the kitchen is just one of the many ways we learn about language, reading and writing.  Today our literacy in the kitchen activity is making rocket pizzas!

Rocket Pizza

Literacy Activities in the Kitchen:  Rocket Pizzas are fun and easy to  make with the kids and build literacy skills at the same time!

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Why We Chose This Literacy Activities in the Kitchen Project

We love pizza in our house and usually have it once a week.  For some reason my oldest son has been wanting all of his food shaped like a rocket recently.  Breakfast each morning this week has consisted of toast shaped like a rocket with butter and blueberry jelly.  He also asks for rocket juice (aka orange juice) that he says, “fills his tank.”

So, for lunch we decided to create rocket pizzas and mix in some literacy practice too!

Setting Up and Baking

Materials Needed: recipe cards printable, scissors and your choice of pizza making supplies

Directions for making rocket pizzas

1. Print the free recipe cards I created for you.   Cut each card out so that you have four separate pieces.

2. Gather your pizza making supplies.  We like to use the super easy pizza dough recipe from Happy Hooligans.  You will also need pizza sauce, shredded cheese and pepperoni.

It is time to learn and create!

Lay the picture recipe cards out on the table and talk about each one.  Then, have your child sequence the cards in the correct order.  Sequencing is an important skill for reading comprehension and also spelling.

making rocket pizzas

You are ready to start making the pizza.  Let your child talk through each step on the cards while he works. This is a wonderful way to build vocabulary and develop language skills.

spreading the sauce on rocket pizzas

When the rocket pizzas have finished cooking, add a few red and orange pepper strips for the flames.  Add   a small bowl of moon sauce (aka ranch dip) for the veggies.

While the pizzas cook, read one of these fun rocket books.

Practice counting with On The Launch Pad by Michael Dahl.

Zoom into space with an animal crew in Roaring Rockets by Tony Mitton.

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Enjoy some of these pizza themed books during lunch too!

Make Chicka Coconut Banana Booms in the kitchen.

Try this yummy fruit salad.

How is that for some preschool literacy activities in the kitchen fun?

Keep reading.  Visit the links below for more great space ideas from the #playfulpreschool team!

My Space Book by Powerful Mothering
Word Family Rocket Landings by Rainy Day Mum
Space Science Experiments: Venus and Neptune by Learning 2 Walk
Jupiter’s Moons-Counting by 5’s by Capri + 3
Counting & Matching Star Activities for Preschoolers by Life Over C’s
Galaxy Sensory Bin by Tiny Tots Adventures
Learning about the Moon | Making Moon Bread: by The Educators’ Spin On It
Solar system sun catchers by Fun-A-Day!
Space Scene Play Mat by Mom Inspired Life
Passport to the Planets: A Science Writing Prompt for Kids by Still Playing School

 

 

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Filed Under: All categories, Family Literacy Tagged With: cooking, playful preschool

About Jodie Rodriguez

Jodie Rodriguez is a mom of two young boys and an early childhood/elementary educator with over 20 years of experience. Jodie's passion is helping parents, teachers, librarians and anyone else interested in nurturing and reaching ALL of our youngest growing readers.

Comments

  1. Shannon says

    April 17, 2015 at 12:36 pm

    These are awesome! I miss the days of doing foodie crafts with my little ones. The “baby” is going on 10 now, but at least he still loves to cook.

    Thanks so much for linking up to What’s for Lunch Wednesday last week, this is one of the featured posts this week!

  2. Samantha @ Stir the Wonder says

    April 12, 2015 at 6:11 pm

    I love this idea! You’re son is so creative to think of rocket juice to fill his tank! Thanks for linking up at the Thoughtful Spot Weekly Blog Hop! We hope you join us again next week!

  3. Natasha says

    April 2, 2015 at 7:04 am

    Rocket shaped pizza! Love it. Being in the kitchen is a nice vocabulary to introduce to little ones.

  4. Melissa says

    April 1, 2015 at 7:26 pm

    This looks like a blast! Pun intended!

  5. Cerys says

    April 1, 2015 at 11:04 am

    Brilliant – Friday is pizza night for my kids – this week they will be making the rocket pizza with the instructions.

  6. Danielle says

    April 1, 2015 at 9:44 am

    I love this idea! We enjoy making fun food and my son would be super excited about rocket pizzas! We are going to try to make them this week.

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