Monday, June 18, 2007

Pretend Play Food: Pizza Party

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Pretend Play Food: Pizza Party


Making pizza is a fun activity that you can do with your children. They will feel honored to partake in the dinner preparations. Now you can have the fun of making pizza but not the mess. It is still a good idea to do it for real every now and then but using the Pizza Party
from Melissa and Doug can not only be fun but educational as well.

With the 53 toppings provided in the pretend play food pizza you can do many things that will help your child's mind to develop and learn while having fun. You can sort them according to colors and beginning sounds. Take the pieces and pattern them. Use mushrooms and pepperoni to do AB patterns and ABB patterns. Take some dice and roll the dice and have the child match the number of dots on the dice to the number of toppings they have to put on their piece. Add or loose a piece of the toppings and try to get your child to figure out how to make all the pieces of the pizza have the same number of toppings.

The pretend play food pizza pieces are cut in to six pieces and if you take one away, talk about how many toppings you lost or even how many toppings you gain by adding it back. The cutting utensil is a pizza slicer. It is a great tool where your child will have to position the slicer in between the two pieces, as with most of our cutting food, and with coordination cut the slices. It is a great thing too that they can put the pretend play food pieces back together again and start all over.

Even when your child is playing with
all alone or with other children, the learning will take place when they imagine and when they sort and when they share. It is an amazing toy and will be used even when they get older!

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