Pizza Party Dice Game

Pizza Party Dice Game - This pizza dice game delivers

Three things I have trouble resisting: Games with dice, games with some sort of pattern cards, and games that play fast. Triple win! Probably only a vegetarian would notice this, but the pictures on the dice are bacon, sausage, pepperoni, shrimp, anchovies, and mushrooms. What, no green olives?! The dice are a little smaller than your standard dice measuring 1/2" square.

The pizza-slice shaped cards have anywhere from one to five ingredients pictured, with the majority having five..

Object:
Be the first player to win six slices and make a pizza.

Set up:
Give each player 5 dice. Shuffle the slice cards. Give one to each player, face-down, and set the rest of the pile nearby.

Play:
Players play at the same time. On go, each player turns his card face-up and starts to throw his dice. If any of the dice match any of the ingredients on your pattern card, place them on top. Go through this step, throwing the dice over and over, until you have filled your card with the matching dice. Once you have a full slice, yell Mama Mia. Take the dice off, set the card off to the side and flip over a new card. Keep going until someone has won 6 slice cards, forming a whole pizza, and wins the game.

Try this:

• Shape the palm before shaking the dice by putting a small ball or round object in the individual's hand and forming the hand around it.  
• Model the cupping position and how to shake the dice before starting to play - fingers together, making a rounded cup in the palm. Often the child will just squeeze the dice tight in the hand and shake the hand, thinking the dice are moving around when they are not.
• Skip the game and match the pattern cards. Pick up one die at a time from the table top and rotate it in the fingertips, without using a support surface, to match the dice pictures on the card.
• Place a die in the palm and have the individual move it to the fingertips and rotate for placement on a pattern card.  Then try 2, holding one back while positioning the first.
• Cup the hand, separate the fingers slightly, and practice carefully shaking all 5 dice in one hand without dropping. Hold in this position until you count to 10, until a mushroom picture pops up, or while you sing Do You Know the Muffin Man, substituting pizza for muffin (or any other criteria you want to use to extend the amount of time the palm is in this position).
• Orient the picture on each die in the same orientation as the one on the card before placing it on the card.
• Turn over one card and both people try to be the first to match the dice. The person who matches first, gets the card. Go through 10 cards and the one at the end with the most cards, wins.
• Work on strengthening palmar arches, in-hand manipulation, distal finger control, manual dexterity, visual discrimination, figure ground, eye-hand coordination, socialization skills, process skills, executive functioning skills, play and leisure exploration and participation

In the box: 10 dice with a pizza ingredient on each side, 40 slice pattern cards 
 
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