Pizza Pizza!

The Preschool Group took a field trip to Pizza Hut again this year to learn how pizza is made. We had a great guide, Jeff, who showed us the ins and outs of Pizza Hut. The kids really enjoyed it. I don't think they remembered doing it last year. Jeff showed the kids all around the kitchen and let them help him wash some dishes in the massive fast dishwasher. We washed a butter container in the dishwasher and counted to 40. After 40 seconds the dish was cleaned and sanitized. Who wouldn't want a dishwasher like that in their house!!!

Then he showed the kids the giant mixer. Jaxton announced that his mom has one just like it! However, mine is about 100 times smaller. It was cute that he recognized it. After about 5 minutes of Jeff explaining to the kids what this giant mixer does, it mixes pizza dough, Cooper spoke up and asked Jeff what this "big machine" does. He was enjoying himself but was caught up in all the different things to see around him that he forgot to listen to our tour guide. Cute boy!

Then, Jeff gave each kid a ball of real pizza dough to hold, feel, and mold. It was like play dough! He helped each kid put his ball of pizza dough through a machine that flattened it like a tortilla. The flattened dough then gets pressed down into a pizza pan and becomes the pizza crust! Never need a rolling pin here! Here is Jaxton's pizza crust...

...and here is Cooper's pizza crust. Look at those cute dark chocolate brown eyes! Don't you just want to eat them right up!

Next, the funnest part, each kid got to make his own personal size pizza. Don't worry, they didn't use the dough they were playing with. They got to help press down the pizza crust and put cheese and all the toppings they wanted on their own personal pizza. Here is Jaxton putting cheese and sausage all over his pizza.

And here is Cooper putting the same, cheese and sausage all over his pizza. Next to him is his good friend Cameron Stump.

In order to remember whose pizza was whose, the Pizza Hut employees gave each child a number that corresponded to his or her pizza. Cooper's was number 5. For some reason, he was really proud to have that little number given to him. He saved it, protected it from trash-picker-uppers and held on to it all the way home. It was too cute how attached he was to his number. I think he was proud to have made his own little pizza!

Here is the whole preschool gang along with siblings and a couple friends. Around the table to the right there is: Jaron, Coby, Cooper, Kye, Gabe, Jaxton, Cameron, Danielle, and Kerra. Our field trip happened to be at 9:15 in the morning. So the kids actually got to eat pizza for breakfast! That doesn't happen very often! It was a fun day!