Time for a Pete’s A Pizza Party!
To celebrate having 400 kids yoga fans in one place sharing OMazing ideas, I’m sharing “Pete’s A Pizza Party – a free OMazing Kids Yoga lesson plan based on the story “Pete’s A Pizza” by William Steig” (including supplies, pose ideas, playlist with links to songs, symbols for the book, a printable pizza craft, affirmations and other fun ideas!).
Click on either of the screenshots to download the PDF. Within the PDF you will be able to click on links to the fun stuff!
Feel free to share any other pizza-themed ideas that you have to add to the fun 🙂
(Special thanks to Barbara Gini at BodyLogique for inspiring me to “use my noodle” to try out pizza-themed yoga!)
Update 9/26/13: Did you know that October is National Pizza Month in the USA?
Glad to see I’m not the only SLP who LOVES this book! Fun idea to use shredded yellow paper as “cheese”. Check out this post on Preschool Wonders:
More fun ideas for pizza topping props on Playdough to Plato:
Pizza Costume Craft idea:
Wow! Tons of pizza-themed learning printables from 123 Homeschool 4 Me:
Update 8/8/12: Here is a larger version of a pizza and toppings printable I made to use in larger groups of kids as an alternative to each child assembling the pizza printable I included in my original post….. that would still be fun to do but I realized in a group of 14 kids that could take too much time. I bought a pizza pan at Dollar Tree, cut a circle out of a paper bag to fit the pan to be the “dough” & cut it into halves so I could laminate it, cut a smaller circle out of red construction paper to be the “sauce”, laminated the sauce & all the toppings, used a fine-tip permanent marker to write pose options for that ingredient on the back & used clear velcro to attach the sauce and toppings to the dough. I attached the pic of the pizza oven & the timer to the back of the pan (as a place to store them). The kids LOVED being pizzas this week in OMazing Kids Inclusive Yoga at JDMC! They did a great job keeping their table pose steady as I placed the assembled pizza on each child. BTW…. this was a fun way to practice waiting turns & maintaining a pose for a few seconds 🙂
Here is the printable I made: Pizza and Toppings Printable (PDF). I also made a coloring sheet to send home with the kids: Make a Pizza coloring sheet.
Update 9/26/12: Look at the cool Melissa & Doug Felt Pizza Set I got to go with my Pete’s a Pizza theme! Couldn’t pass it up at 40% off at Michael’s last week 🙂
Info about the set: http://www.melissaanddoug.com/felt-pizza-play-food-set.
Free pizza song download: http://soundcloud.com/the-sing-sings/09-lets-make-some-pizza
More fun ideas for this book: http://shannonsbooknook.com/?p=5732
Update 8/10/13:
http://www.doverpublications.com/samplerkids/intro/children53.htm
More pizza-themed ideas on the Running with Paintbrushes blog: http://angeliqueskids.wordpress.com/category/thematic-unit/pizza/ (wow! pizza palooza over there)
Update 10/29/13:
Another fun pizza printable: http://www.makingfriends.com/preschool/paper_pizza.htm
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Update 10/30/13:
Pizza at Sally’s by Monica Wellington is another fun option for doing pizza-themed kids yoga! In addition to the yoga pose options included in the lesson plan above, this book also has the following opportunities for kids yoga: planting seeds in the community vegetable garden (see Seeds & Gardens post for ideas), Sally’s cat, sun, harvesting wheat, milling flour, cow, making cheese. I love the vivid colors in this book, the combination of real photos with illustrations, how it shows where food really comes from (the process of growing & harvesting), Sally as the pizzeria owner (the depiction of a woman as a successful small business owner), etc.
Angela Moorad, MS, CCC-SLP, IAYT, RCYP-2
Speech-Language Pathologist at the JD McCarty Center (http://www.jdmc.org/)
Founder of OMazing Kids, LLC – inclusive wellness activities for kids of all abilities
Radiant Child Yoga Certified – Levels 1 & 2
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Posted by Malia {Playdough to Plato} on September 26, 2013 at 3:03 pm
What a fun collection of Pete’s a Pizza activities for kids!! Thanks for including us in the roundup. 🙂
Posted by OMazing Kids on September 26, 2013 at 5:01 pm
Loved all your fun ideas for ingredient props 🙂
Posted by Perfect Square: a perfect book for kids yoga « OMazing Kids on February 14, 2013 at 9:49 pm
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Posted by Chawana Champagne on October 3, 2012 at 10:48 am
Amazing! I am speechless
Posted by OMazing Kids on October 3, 2012 at 5:37 pm
Thanks! It’s one of my “faves”. Did “Pete’s A Pizza” yoga with two groups of 20 four year olds today at Educare…… a fun twist was that they were going to have pizza for lunch 🙂
Posted by Pizza Thematic Unit – Physical Activity « Running with Paintbrushes on March 19, 2012 at 12:52 am
[…] OMazing Kids Yoga – Pete’s a Pizza – I am loving this website and especially loving how detailed she is with this pizza unit. If I think someone is “detailed” then you just have to believe me!! Her activities for Pete’s a Pizza and incorporating yoga truly OMazed me! She has a music list of free and some paid songs to use with her lessons. There is a list of different poses for the pizza toppings. If I were a child (and some days I am), I would LOVE this yoga session. Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:LikeBe the first to like this post. […]
Posted by OMazing Kids on August 10, 2013 at 12:37 pm
Thanks! I just now noticed the pingback to your post as I was adding more stuff to Pete’s a Pizza. It is definitely one of my faves! You should also check out my posts for some of my other faves: Apple Farmer Annie, My Many Colored Days, Green Eggs & Ham & Agate What Good is a Moose (just to name a few). As you can tell, I love finding fun new ways to combine movement, crafts, music & more with great kids books 🙂
Posted by OMazing Kids Yoga on July 29, 2011 at 7:46 pm
I just found some more cute pizza coloring pages: http://twistynoodle.com/coloring-pages/food/pizza/
Posted by Jessica Millen on July 29, 2011 at 5:54 am
this is fantastic! I love incorporating books into my yoga for children. What a well thought out sequence and great ideas. thank you!!
Posted by OMazing Kids Yoga on July 29, 2011 at 7:39 pm
Thanks Jessica! It’s a big hit everytime in OMazing Kids Yoga…. we are doing it again in our class on Tuesday 🙂 So much fun!