Pizzeria Night

3/3/10

This was a YW combined activity that we were in charge of. We wanted the girls to learn some cooking skills & also talk about the importance of dinner time with the family. Sooo, we came up with the idea of a pizza night. We would sit down as a YW 'family' & have dinner together at our YW's Pizzeria! :-)

When the girls arrived, we had pizza dough for them to shape into a personal pizza & put their toppings on. While the pizzas were in the oven cooking, we talked about the importance of spending dinner with our families & having conversations with them. We had the girls put together & decorate conversations jars to be used in their own families. They had to cut up strips of paper with questions on them & put in their mason jars. We got the pizzas out of the ovens & put them on the table where we sat down together & used some of the questions from the conversation jar as practice. It was a fun evening & the pizza was awesome!

One of our class activities was preparing for our combined YW activity. We had the girls put together invitations & make place mats/name tags for each YW:The Invitation:
I used 'Godfather's Pizza' logo & put in the 'Young Women's Pizza' instead.I used some black aprons from work for the girls (Mia Maids) to wear:
I stapled on the logo I made for the night:I also borrowed 2 black chef's shirts from work for Sis. Bowman & I to wear:
I put the logo on our chef shirts too.I used color chalk to decorate a chalkboard for the night:
It was like our agenda for the night.Some of the homemade pizza dough that I made:
YUM!
Decorations:
We strung up lights in the entryway:Our Menu Chalkboard in the entryway:Sis. Bowman & I showing off our Chef duds:The tables set up for the night:
We had checkered table clothes & candles for the pizzeria affect.Place settings & Conversation Jars:
Action from the night:
The girls forming their pizza pies...Look at the one flying in the air!Putting sauce & toppings on their pizzas:Fixing my own pizza:Do I look like I know what I'm doing?
I didn't think so... :)Getting the pizzas in the oven:Putting together their Conversation Jars:Pizzas' ready!Time to EAT!Look at all of that great conversation...What a fun night!And the pizza was amazing...Taking a well deserved rest... ;)The Mia Maids with their crazy leaders:Don't we look cute? Great job, ladies...The whole crazy crew...