Perry Public Library Storytime 

Making Pizza!

 

Stories we shared:

Let’s Make Pizza: by Mary Hill   

Pete's a pizza:  by William Steig

Hi Pizza Man!  by Virginia Walker                                     

 

Other yummy books you may enjoy sharing:

                 Huggly’s Pizza:  by Tedd Arnold

Pizza Counting:  by  Christina Dobson                            The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza:  by Philemon Sturges

                The Pizza that we Made:  by Joan Holub                         Ord Eats A Pizza:  by Irene Trimble

                Mrs. Hippo’s Pizza Parlor:  by Vivian French                  Pizza Pat: by Rita Gelman

                TMNT Pizza Party: by Eleanor Hudson                            Curious George and the Pizza:  by Margaret Rey

                Princess and the Pizza:  by Mary Auch                            Pizza:  by Elaine Landau

                Pizza the Size of the Sun:  by Jack Prelutsky                  Pizza Man:  by Marjorie Pillar

Lunch:  by Denise Flemming                                            If You Give a Mouse a Cookie:  by Laura Numeroff                     

Eating the Alphabet:  by Lois Ehlert                                 The Very hungry caterpillar:  by Eric Carle

Growing vegetable soup:  by :Lois Ehlert                       Pickle things:  by Marc Brown

If you give a moose a muffin:  by L. Numeroff               Don't Forget the Bacon:  by Pat Hutchins

                Mouse Mess:  by Linnea Riley                                          Where are you Little Green Dragon?  by K. Baumgart

                Appples and pumpkins:  by Anne Rockwell                   Pancakes, crackers, and pizza:  by Marjorie Eberts

                Mealtime:  by Maureen Roffey                                           Berenstain Bears and too much junk food:  by S. Berenstain

                Eat up Gemma:  by Sarah Hayes                                     Vegetable soup:  by Jeanne Modesitt

                Mrs. Pig's bulk buy:  by Mary Rayner                                Me and my veggies:  by Isaac Whitlatch

                Apple Bird:  by Brian Wildsmith                                        This is the way we eat our lunch:  by Edith Baer

                D.W. the picky eater:  by Marc Brown                               Stone Soup:  by Marcia Brown

                Peas:  by Nicholas Heller                                                  Mealtime:  by Stephen Shott

                Cloudy with a chance of meatballs:  by Judi Barrett     What's for lunch:  by John Schindel

                Potluck:  by Anne Shelby                                                    Who put the pepper in the pot?  by Joanna Cole

                Eat your peas Louise:  by Pegeen Snow                        What food is this?  by Rosemarie Hausherr

                Valerie and the silver pear:   by Benjamin Darling        Anno's faces:  by Mitsumasa Anno

                Popcorn book:  by Tomie Depaola                                  Blueberry Bears:  by Eleanor Lapp

                Jamberry:  by Bruce Degen                                               Green Eggs and Ham:  by Dr. Seuss

           

Songs and rhymes to share:

Pan Pizza Hot                                                                                                      Five Fat Sausages

                (clap hands alone or with a partner)                                                Five fat sausages        (hold up 5 fingers)

Pan Pizza hot  (clap hands)                                                                               Sizzling in the pan               (wiggle fingers)

Pan Pizza cold      (tap knees)                                                                           All of a sudden                     (spread arms wide)

Pan Pizza in the pot   (clap hands)                                                                   One went BANG!  (clap hands loudly)

Nine days old       (tap knees)                                                                           Four fat sausages....

Some like it hot    (clap hands)                                                                         Three fat sausages...

Some like it cold (tap knees)                                                                           Two fat sausages...

Some like it in the pot  (clap hands)                                                                                One fat sausage...

Nine days old       (tap knees)                                                                           Now there are no more sausages                 

                                                                                                                                Sizzling in the pan!              (hold out empty hands)

I Wish I Were a Pepperoni Pizza

                (Sing to the Oscar Mayer Wiener song)                                          The Pizza Man

I wish I were a pepperoni pizza                                                                                        (sing to The Muffin Man song)

That is what I’d tuly like to be                                                                            Oh do you know the pizza man, the pizza man, the pizza man

‘Cause if I were a pepperoni pizza                                                                   Oh do you know the pizza man,

Everyone would be in love with me!                                                                 Who makes it fresh and hot?

 

Pizza Hut                                                                                                               P-I-Z-Z-A     (clap your hands)
Pizza Hut               (make a roof with your arms)                                           I know a food that starts with P
Pizza Hut               (make a roof with your arms)                                           And pizza is its name-o
Kentucky Fried Chicken     (flap your arms like a chicken)                          P-I-Z-Z-A, P-I-Z-Z-A, P-I-Z-Z-A 
And a Pizza Hut                    (make a roof with your arms)                           And pizza is its name-o
Mc Donald's          (make an “M” shape in the air with your hand)
Mc Donald's          (make an “M” shape in the air with your hand)
Kentucky Fried Chicken     (flap your arms like a chicken)
And a Pizza Hut    (make a roof with your arms) 

 

 

Hello, My Name is Joe

Hello, my name is Joe and I work down at the Pizza Factory
I have a house, and a dog, and a family
Now one day the cook said to me,
 "Hey Joe, do you mind stirring the sauce with your right hand?"  (make stirring motions with right hand - continue throughout rhyme)
I said, "Sure."  

Hello, my name is Joe and I work down at the Pizza Factory
I have a house, and a dog, and a family
Now one day the cook said to me,
 "Hey Joe, do you mind chopping the veggies with your left hand?" (make chopping action with left hand )
I said, "Sure."

Hello, my name is Joe and I work down at the Pizza Factory
I have a house, and a dog, and a family
Now one day the cook said to me,
 "Hey Joe, do you mind opening the trash can with your right foot?" (tap right foot, continuing with hand motions)
I said, "Sure."

Hello, my name is Joe and I work down at the Pizza Factory
I have a house, and a dog, and a family
Now one day the cook said to me,
 "Hey Joe, do you mind opening the door with your left foot?" ( kidk left foot, continuing with hand motions)
I said, "Sure."

Hello, my name is Joe and I work down at the Pizza Factory
I have a house, and a dog, and a family
Now one day the cook said to me, "Hey Joe, do you mind licking some stamps with your tongue?"  I said "Sure."
(now talk with tongue sticking out)

Hello, my name is Joe and I work down at the Pizza Factory
I have a house, and a dog, and a family
Now one day the cook said to me, "Hey Joe, are you busy?"
I said, "Yeah, I'm a little busy right now."

 

Plant a Pizza in the Garden !

Try something different in the garden this year. Everyone will enjoy growing a pizza garden.

This garden is even shaped like a pizza. In your garden area, mark off a circle by putting a stake upright in the ground. Attach a 3 and a half foot piece of string to the stake. Keeping the string tight, walk around in a circle and mark the ground to show the garden's border. Divide the circle into six equal wedges.

In your pizza garden plan to grow three vegetables and three herbs.

In one of each wedge plant 2 or 3 oregano plants. parlsey plants, and basil plants.

Onions can be planted from seeds or sets. Select red, white or yellow for your garden. You can plant up to 30 onion sets in your garden.  

Plant 1 or 2 pepper plants in your garden. Plant any green, sweet, bell type of pepper. If you like hot, spicy pizza, plan to also grow a hot pepper variety.  

The final wedge will be planted with 1 or 2 tomato plants. A paste tomato variety, such as Roma, is recommended for your pizza garden. Roma has small, oblong tomatoes with a thick meaty flesh.

 

 

 

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