Homemade Heart Shaped Pizza

This Valentine's Day I had totally forgotten to pick up a Papa Murphy's Heart Shaped Pizza for the kids and since I do daycare out of my home I wasn't able to just pack up and go get one....so I did the next  best thing-created one at home and luckily I had the ingredients on hand.

Ingredients:

1 Pillsbury Pizza Crust

3/4 Ketchup

1 Tbsp Italian Seasoning

1 lb Meat-pork, ham, pepperoni

Toppings-chopped: onions, green peppers, mushrooms, olives

1 cup Cheese-shredded

Directions:

1. Roll out the pizza crust and place it onto a greased cookie sheet and shape into a heart shape or whatever the holiday theme may be

2. If you selected to use a meat that needs to be pre-cooked fry on medium heat until cooked. I chose to use italian sausage-1lb of Jimmy Dean Pork Sausage in the regular flavor, you can find it in the breakfast meat department.

3. Combine ketchup with Italian seasoning and place on pizza crust

4. Add on meat toppings along with other chopped toppings you would like

5. Top with shredded Cheese

6. Bake according to pizza crust directions approximately 10mins at 400 degrees or until crust is golden and cheese is melted

Suggestions:

You could make this really simple or add lots of extra topping such as other meats, olives, onions, green peppers to your liking.

Serve with breadsticks

Shape the crust to whichever theme or holiday you are celebrating-clover leaf, candy cane

Get creative, let the kids help and enjoy this easy and fun pizza recipe!

We also enjoyed a yummy dessert-the Famous Popcorn Cake-of course for Valentine's Day we colored the popcorn marshmellow mixture pink and shaped them into hearts

Click  HERE to get the full popcorn cake recipe

For our craft of the day we made Valentine Friends 

you only need construction paper, crayons and glue 

this one was an actual set that i had purchased with my daycare preschool program from

Kids 'N' Fun Crafts-but you could create it with just simply cutting out a heart, 1 hat,  2 hands, 2 feet and four strips of paper for the legs and arms-folded in accordian style.
I had the kids color the parts first before we assembled them together

To learn more about the Kids 'N' Fun Crafts program Click HERE

They offer affordable easy fun that does NOT require a ton of planning-my way to have FUN!

Hope your Valentine's Day was a SWEET one!