{"id":4252,"date":"2013-02-14T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=4252"},"modified":"2016-09-27T09:44:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T14:44:43","slug":"diy-fun-petes-a-pizza-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=4252","title":{"rendered":"DIY Fun: Pete’s a Pizza Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Happy Valentine’s Day! I don’t have a valentine-related DIY today because I figured everyone would be all heart-ed out by now…<\/p>\n

But I do have an easy activity for one of those cold or rainy (or cold, rainy, or snowy) days! The inspiration came from this book:\u00a0<\/a>Pete’s a Pizza<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by William Steig (we borrowed ours from the library). In it, a little boy is stuck indoors while it is raining when his father decides to make him into a pizza using checkers, paper, and a lot of imagination. The boys were cracking up while we read this, and so it was decided. They needed to be made into pizzas, pronto.<\/p>\n

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After reading the book, we cut up pieces of paper (red circles for tomatoes or pepperoni, white strips for cheese, and small green squares for oregano), borrowed the olive oil, and got started!<\/p>\n

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Milo went first, and both Oliver and Emil enjoyed stretching him (pulling on his arms and legs), rolling him (being careful not to roll him off the table, of course), and sprinkling all the ingredients on!<\/p>\n

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Then, I carried him to the oven (our couch) and cooked him up!<\/p>\n

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The slicing was quite fun (I used my hand to chop, chop, chop and there were lots of giggles)! Next, Oliver’s turn.\"DSC_0092\"<\/p>\n

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Stretching the dough!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Oops! Swallowed a bit of paper…<\/em><\/p>\n

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The game was tons of fun for all of us, and it took me back to the days when I used to roll Andrew’s little sister Katie in a blanket like a burrito, adding all sorts of burrito-like ingredients. I think kids really like to be rolled and flattened and carried and hugged– all in the name of play.<\/p>\n

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Just beware! The mess will be colossal. But we knew this going in, so I did it on a day I knew I needed to vacuum anyway. I had the boys collect the big pieces and I took care of the rest! Enjoy your pizza making!<\/p>\n

*** P.S.- Thanks, Andrew, for taking all the pictures!***<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy Valentine’s Day! I don’t have a valentine-related DIY today because I figured everyone would be all heart-ed out by now… But I do have an easy activity for one of those cold or rainy (or cold, rainy, or snowy) days! The inspiration came from this book:\u00a0Pete’s a Pizza\u00a0by William Steig (we borrowed ours from … Continue reading “DIY Fun: Pete’s a Pizza Game”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,187],"tags":[140,119,75],"class_list":["post-4252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy-fun","category-motherhood","tag-books","tag-diy","tag-ingenius-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4252"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12269,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions\/12269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}