Hello everyone! Today, we are going to show you how to make a heart slice pizza for Valentine's
Day. For this activity, you will need: a paper plate, construction paper in red, and yellow,
and brown; also a glue stick, a pair of scissors, a pencil, and a marker— any color marker will do.
I'm going to use a large piece of uh red paper first as my base, as uh I will be making the pizza
slice, first um. Going to be measuring from one end to the other of the paper plate, and leave a
little space, um. So it'll be about eight inches long I need, and about four inches wide on the
top for the pizza slice. So now what I'm going to go ahead and do is, um, use a corner so um, since
it's going to be narrow in the bottom I'm going to use the bottom left corner here, as you notice
there's a piece missing; it's okay. Um, but measuring just about to how high is eight inches
from the bottom there, and now I'm gonna go right in the corner there and measure the eight inches.
So from the corner there, measuring eight inches. And this is according
to the size of my plate, I want it to be a little smaller than the paper plate,
um. If you have a smaller paper plate, your uh, slice will be smaller. And now I'm going to
measure four inches wide. So there should be, uh two inches on both sides and in the center is the
two inch mark. Two inches plus two inches equals four. Okay, now I'm going to fold it in half, and
um the center mark I'm keeping folded all the way to the corner there.
All the way to the corner there's, just want to make sure they line up when I fold it.
And now, I'm going to go ahead and uh start cutting out my uh, pizza slice.
So from that one dot to the other dot there. And it's folded so I can't really see both sides,
but that's okay, it should be measured uh pretty exact there.
And now I'm going to go ahead and cut it towards the corner.
And unfold it, and there's my pizza slice there.
So now I'm going to go ahead and start adding um, other parts to this, uh, triangle slice.
So I'm going to go ahead and get my brown; that's going to be the crust of the pizza.
And I'm measuring um, where the crust is going to be,
and then marking it with the pencil, so tracing out the brown paper.
Sorry, I'm tracing around the uh red triangle
on the brown paper, so now I can go ahead and cut that piece off; that's going to be the crust.
And since I traced around the red triangle, it should be pretty good and
exact.
And as you see here, it lines up. Right there. There we go, that lines up. And so now I'm
going to go ahead and do is get my um, yellow paper, that's gonna be the cheese of the pizza
and I'm just gonna remove the crust for now, I don't need that right now. But um,
actually I'm going to leave a little space on top because um, I don't want it to cover my crust.
So I'm just lining it up and um, just to save paper, I'm going to put this
a little sideways—it's okay. I'm going to cut the uh, yellow part to meet up.
So, just tracing it out first, so I know what I have to work with,
because I'm actually gonna make my um, yellow cheese a little wavy;
make it close to looking like uh, cheese. So now I'm cutting it out.
And uh yes, the corner is a little higher on one side— that's okay, I can go ahead and cut it.
And again I want to make it a little wavy, as the cheese is not straight,
so you need to make it nice, a little wavy there.
Actually it should be on this— there we go, and… cut a little more maybe.
And now I’m going to go ahead and start adding waves all around the um, yellow triangle here.
Okay, and now I'm going to go ahead and uh, place my crust underneath the cheese. So that's
how it's going to look. I'm just seeing how it's going to— oh, it should be the other way around,
there we go. And uh now I'm going to go ahead and start adding some pepperoni. Now these pepperonis
are going to be in heart shapes, so you can draw out a heart and cut it out like that.
But I prefer to do it by freehand, so what I do is fold it in half, and then fold it one more time,
and unfold it, now fold it the other way so I can see what I have to work with.
So now what I do is start at the bottom left corner
that's the folded part, and going outwards and creating half a heart.
Now this is going to give me two hearts.
Here's one, and here's the second one. So notice I didn't make it too big or too small, just enough
so it sticks out um, and uh, I can easily uh, place glue on it later. So same thing again,
I'm going to go ahead and um, let me just cut this extra piece off so it's out of my way.
So um, I'm going to go ahead again and fold it in half once, and then again a second time.
And keeping the closed part in the on the left side and going from the left bottom corner,
and all the way around to the uh right, to the left again,
and there you go, so now I have two hearts again. So now I have a total of four hearts. You can add
more if you have the space, but for me I don't, so this is just enough for me. I'm gonna go ahead and
start gluing the pieces together now. So I'm gonna go ahead and add glue onto the back of each heart.
Now I'm done with the pepperoni, I'm going to go ahead and uh, glue on the crust um, just
the lower half of the crust uh leave the top part um, without glue just in case if it sticks out a
little bit; that's okay. So now pressing the crust down onto the red triangle pizza. And now I'm
going to flip my uh, cheese over because that's uh, how I'm going to glue it onto the um, pizza.
Just flip it over, add some glue um, try to do it mainly in the center um, not so much on the edge.
A little bit on the bottom corner so that
it really sticks on; doesn't easily come off or start curling.
Pressing it down… and so now I'm done with my pizza part. I'm gonna go ahead and um,
get ready to glue this onto the paper plate.
So you want to make sure to place the pizza on the left side, or right side. I prefer the left side,
um, just enough space that you're going to be able to write a little message on the right side.
So I'm going to go ahead and add glue on the back of the pizza. And again do,
do not leave any glue on the edges, go for the center of the pizza. And make sure to be generous
with the glue stick, as um, you want to make sure that sticks onto the paper plate and uh, the paper
plate is a little curved, so. Uh yeah, make sure to add plenty of glue in the center of the pizza.
And then… placing it where you want it, and then when you're ready, go ahead and press it down.
Make sure to smooth it all out, but be careful, you don't want to rip your paper plate, so.
Okay, now you're ready to write your message on the paper plate. You can write whatever you
like, um, you can write: “You stole a pizza my heart.” Um but for me, I'm going to go ahead and
put uh, “You stole a slice of my heart.” Or you can simply put, “Happy Valentine's Day,”
or any cute message and give it to someone that you love or appreciate.
And that is how you make a heart slice pizza!
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