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Pizza Baby

Pizza Baby

Inspired by the William Steig book
Pete's a Pizza (Joanna Cotler, $17)

Next time, skip takeout.

Here is a fun way to interact with your small child— knead, roll, stretch and build your baby pizza.

Have your child lie on the floor or bed and tell him you're going to make a pizza, and he's the dough.

Knead and stretch the dough: Press your hands on his arms and back, pull his legs this way and that (gently, of course).

Pick him up and spin him around to twirl the dough like a fancy pizza chef.

Sprinkle him with olive oil (water, actually) and flour.

Add tomatoes. In Steig's book, the chef used red checkers. To make a margherita pizza, add some basil (the green paper).

Sprinkle with cheese (yellow paper scraps).

Tickle the dough, for a quality control check.

Pick him up and put him on another flat surface (the "oven") and after a few minutes of baking time, take him back to the "table" for slicing. If he lies still, "slice" by tickling. If he runs away, like Pete, chase him and pretend you're going to eat him up.

1 small child (that you can carry a short distance)

Water, flour

Red checkers or other round, red nonchokeable objects

1 sheet each of green and yellow construction paper, green torn into 12 or more irregularly shaped pieces, yellow into about 20 pieces

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