Pizza Dough Playdough

Credit for this genius idea is due to my fabulous coworker, but I had to share because our students are having SO much fun making, topping, and delivering pizzas all over the classroom...

Introducing seasoned "pizza dough" playdough! This stuff literally smells just like pizza but, unlike real pizza dough, it keeps well and isn't sticky. And (applause) no one has eaten it! ...yet.

Our little pizza shop made for a lot of great language including sequencing, vocabulary, recall, and some really wonderful peer interactions. We practiced taking friends' orders and using tools to roll and shape the dough.

Our 'pizza toppings' were added using pieces from this Melissa & Doug set. The kids 'baked' their pizzas in our play oven and packed them for 'delivery' into empty boxes from our local pizza shop.

You can make your own pizza dough playdough using any cream of tartar recipe (via Pinterest: here, here, here). Just skip the food coloring and substitute some garlic powder and Italian Seasoning.

How are you spicing up (literally!) your playdough play?