Materials
Large, wooden hollow blocks or the largest regular blocks you can find
Large area, preferably outdoors
Drumsticks, rhythm sticks, or wooden spoons
Instructions
1. Ask children to take turns grating cheese into a bowl.2. Organize an assembly line of five workers:Worker 1 puts a muffin half on a plate.Worker 2 spoons sauce on the muffin.Worker 3 adds cheese.Worker 4 puts the finished pizza on a cookie sheet.Worker 5 returns the empty plate to worker 1.3. After this group makes ten pizza halves, assemble another team of workers to make the next batch of pizzas.4. Place the cookie sheet into the oven and bake the pizzas at 350 degrees for ten minutes (adult only).5. Eat the pizzas for lunch or snack.More to doField Trips: List all the parts of a car. Explain to the children that many people work together to assemble a car. Discuss how it takes the work of many people to grow, process, package, deliver, and sell our food and other goods. Visit a local factory or construction site to see people working as a team on a project.More Field Trips: Visit a farm, packing plant, grocery, or restaurant.Home Connection: Ask a parent to come in and talk about his or her assembly or construction work.
