Kid friendly recipes can be fun to create. Fruits and vegetables can be used in recipes for children. These ingredients can add a fun element to kid's meals. Finding child recipes that kids can create for themselves gives them a feeling of independence. Let the little ones choose the fruits and vegetables that you utilize for the child recipes listed below.

Getting children to eat fruit can be simple when we make it fun and exciting. Since fruit should be a constant in every family's menu, let the children decide what fruits they use to create a fun and interesting fruit pizza project.

You may be surprised by the fruits they select at the farmer's market. Let the little ones decide what fruits and vegetables they would like for their at home project.

Choose interesting or colorful fruits at the grocery store or farmers' market, then set the little ones loose making fun faces on this delicious fruit pizza. Odds are, they'll snack as they create--and love what they taste.

Choose fruits in an assortment of colors and sizes. Let the little ones adorn the pizza with fun faces or make other shapes on this colorful and fun pizza.

If you are cooking for friends ensure that no-one has any food allergies, check guests before serving food perhaps they have a Medi Safe A lert or Safe Kids Card with them. www.safefamilycards.com

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 choices for making shapes are only limited by their imaginations. The kids can opt for pineapples, mandarin oranges or any fruit they like.

Instructions: 1. Let the piecrust come to room temperature per the package instructions

2. Unfold it onto a large cookie sheet or pizza pan.

3. Roll up edges of the crust, crimping them slightly so that they'll stay rolled up. 4. Prick the crust lightly with a fork in about 20 places(allowing air to escape).

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

6. Remove from the crust from the oven

To Prepare the Filling:

1. Whisk together cream cheese ,sugar, and vanilla extract, lemon juice 2. Add just enough milk to the mix to make it spreadable 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 little ones to get involved.

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

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

The children will be antsy and want to eat the pizza right away. This pizza cream cheese mixture is almost set but will cut easier after refrigerated. Let the little ones help you with the cleanup. They will be antsy to taste their masterpiec.