Pizza Collage
Make yourself a fancy pizza collage picture using a paper bag and old magazines.
Materials Needed:
Paper Bag
Magazines and/or Construction Paper
Glue
Instructions:
Cut a large circle out of the paper bag.
This will be your "pizza crust". Start out by finding red objects in magazines (or you can use red construction paper). Tear our the red objects (or construction paper shapes) and glue them on your "pizza crust" to resemble the "pizza sauce". Don't cover the entire crust, you want to have the crust showing around the edge!
After you get all your red pieces glued on to make your "pizza sauce", you want to find yellowish (or white) objects in the magazines (or use construction paper) and follow the same procedure to make the "pizza cheese".
Once you have the cheese on, you can decide what else you want on your pizza! For example, tear out round shapes from reddish objects to make pepperoni, tear out small, odd shapes from brown objects to make sausage, tear out green shapes to make green pepers, etc.
NOTE: Instead of using magazine pictures or construction paper, you can use scrap material, wallpaper samples, or anything else you can find laying around that are appropriate colors for your pizza toppings!
Recipe for Dinosaur Pizza
You will need:
1 adult to help you
1 small jar pizza sauce
1 small package ready-made pizza shells (individual size, two shells in each package)
1 cup grated mozzarella cheese
1 small can whole black olives (drained)
1 small jar whole green olives (drained)
1 small package pepperoni slices
1 green bell pepper, cut into small triangles (to look like fangs)
1 cookie sheet or baking stone
a pizza cutter or sharp knife
1. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F
2. Spoon a layer of pizza sauce onto each pizza shell. Sprinkle mozzarella cheese on top of the sauce on each shell.
3. To make a dinosaur face, use two black olives for eyes and two green olives for nostrils. Pepperoni slices can be used to make rosy cheeks. Arrange the pepper "fangs" to look like the dinosaur's mouth is open.
4. Place the pizzas on the cookie sheet or baking stone. Bake for eight to ten minutes or until the cheese bubbles and browns. Remove from the oven and cool for a couple of minutes before slicing.
Serves two.
To create different dinosaur faces, experiment with zucchinni, mushroom, or onion slices, chunks of pineapple, cooked chicken or meatballs, canned corn kernals . . . or whatever tasty leftovers you find in your refrigerator!
Recipe taken from the book Dinosaur Pizza by Lee Wardlaw, copyright 1998, Troll/Scholastic Books. Used with permission