At Collaborative OT solutions making real or pretend pizza is a great way to improve sequencing skills and have fun with your senses!
For kids, learning how to build a pizza in the correct order, from dough, the pizza sauce, then cheese, and then the toppings is working on their sequencing skills. Kids can also work on improving their tolerance to touching different textures, making and building a pizza is a great way to have fun with a variety of different textures from the doughy pizza crust, wet pizza sauce, to squishy cheese. If your kiddo is not ready to touch the pizza ingredients, they can use a rolling pin to roll out the dough, or use a spoon to spread the pizza sauce. Try it out for yourself!
Pizza Dough Recipe:
- 1 â…“ Cups All-purpose Flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- ½ teaspoon Salt
- ½ Cup Fat-free milk
- 2 Tablespoon Olive Oil