Summertime Equals Fruit Pizza Time!

Fruits can add variety to kid's meals. Finding fun food for children can be as easy as taking them to the grocer with you. Selecting fruits that are delicious and chock full of nutrients can be an exciting project.

Getting kids to consume fruit can be simple when we make it fun and entertaining. Since fruit should be a staple in every family's menu, let the kids decide which fruits they require to prepare a festive and interesting fruit pizza project.

It may surprise you that the fruits they select at the farmer's market. Let the children decide which fruits and vegetables they would like for their at home project.

Choose fun or colorful fruits at the grocery store or farmers' market, then turn the children loose creating imaginative faces on this tasty fruit pizza. Odds are, they'll snack as they create--and enjoy what they taste.

Opt for fruits in an assortment of palettes and sizes. Let the children embellish the pizza with imaginative faces or create other shapes on this colorful and fun pizza.

Ingredients.

Ready to bake piecrust

Filling
1/2 cup fat free or low fat cream cheese
1 tablespoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1.4 teaspoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon 1% milk

Toppings
Choose strawberries for the nose, kiwi fruit or seedless grapes for the eyes, a banana for the mouth. The options for making shapes are only restricted by their imaginations. The children can select pineapples, mandarin oranges, or any fruit they desire.

Instructions:
1. Let the piecrust come to room temperature per the package instructions, then unfold it onto a large cookie sheet or pizza pan.

2. Roll up edges of the crust, crimping them gently so that they'll remain rolled up. Poke the crust gently with a fork in about 20 places (allowing air to escape).

3. Bake the crust in a preheated 450 degree oven for about 9 minutes or until it's lightly browned.

Remove from the crust from the oven

4. Whisk together cream cheese ,sugar, and vanilla extract, lemon juice adding just enough milk to make the mix able to spread onto the crust.

*Allow the crust to cool.
*Spread the cream-cheese mixture with a rubber spatula,
*Spread to the edge of the crust

Now its time for the children to get involved.

*Allow the children to arrange the fruit onto the cream cheese mixture. Don't worry if it is not perfect. It is perfectly nutritious and fun. Little Ones may want to add sprinkles. Let their imaginations go wild.

*Refrigerate the pizza for at least 1 hour
*Cut with a sharp knife and serve

The children will be impatient and want to devour the pizza right away. This pizza cream cheese is basically already set. So when you're done cleaning up, let the kids to assist you here. They will be eager to taste their masterpiece.

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