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Home | Activities | Felt Pizza to Work on Button Skills

Felt Pizza to Work on Button Skills

January 31, 11 Comments

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I have a client that needs to work on buttoning skills, and I found that I do not have many buttoning activities that are appropriate and fun for older kids. When I heard another therapist mention that the pepperoni pizza buttoning activity is her favorite, I searched the internet and came up blank. I therefore made my own. Here is my felt pizza buttoning activity.

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I used different colors of felt for the different pizza toppings. There is yellow cheese, pepperoni, and green peppers.

button pizza 2web

I found that the pieces of felt needed to be doubled and stitched together. Then I added buttons and button holes in each of the pieces.

This was so popular that I have made a lot of them, and you can now order the Button Pizza in the Therapy Fun Zone Shop. It is smaller and heat sealed rather than sewn.

You can also now order a pattern to make your own, including direction on how to make it without sewing.

Materials:

  • Felt Pizza
  • Buttons

Skills:

  • Fine motor
  • ADL
  • Dressing
  • Buttoning
  • Bimanual
  • Motor Planning

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Tonya is a pediatric Occupational Therapist, and loves creating things to work on skills and solve problems.
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Tags: adl, button food, buttoning, buttons, dressing, felt food, pizza buttoning Categories: Activities, ADL, bimanual, buttoning, child, Craft, dressing, elementary school age, favorite toys, fine-motor, Motor Planning, OT, Paper, preschool, visual perceptual

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  1. Rose-Marie says

    January 31, at 6:29 am

    What a terrific idea! A fun way to practice button skills… For young kids or kids learning basic skills, it gives color matching practice. If you felt like getting really fancy, the pizza could be sewn as slices for fraction studies to boot! What a neat inclusive activity that meets skills on so many levels. I love this!

    Reply
    • Tonya says

      January 31, at 7:34 am

      Thank you. I too like the color matching of the piece to the right color of button.

      Reply
  2. Love and Lollipops says

    January 31, at 8:59 am

    This is a super idea!!

    Reply
  3. Kimberly says

    February 2, at 2:38 pm

    What a cute idea!

    Reply
  4. Darin says

    January 17, at 8:49 am

    I love this website and I LOVE this activity!!!

    Reply
    • Tonya says

      January 17, at 10:27 am

      Thank you. Glad you like it.

      Reply
  5. Nelly Grey says

    February 7, at 4:14 am

    This is what you call creativity!

    Reply

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    January 2, at 9:06 am

    […] Felt Pizza to work on Button Skills […]

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  2. Practice Buttoning with Felt Sandwich - Therapy Fun Zone says:
    November 17, at 4:05 am

    […] was inspired by making the buttoning pizza to make more food that requires buttoning. I see a whole line of fun button food in my future. Here […]

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  3. I have Button Food and I’m ready to play - Therapy Fun Zone says:
    November 17, at 4:06 am

    […] has been about a year and a half since I first posted about my felt button food.  I made myself a button pizza where the kids had to button on the toppings, and I made a sandwich where they button on the layers […]

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  4. Practice Buttoning with Felt Oreo Cookies - Therapy Fun Zone says:
    November 17, at 4:08 am

    […] was inspired by making the buttoning pizza to make more food that requires buttoning. I see a whole line of fun button food in my future. Here […]

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