Halloween Easy Fun Food for Kids; Make a Pizza Pep-o-Lantern

Halloween is a fun time for kids but often the decorations and food preparation are not easy enough for them to take an active part. Easy, yet fun to make, Halloween foods can make the holiday even more fun for your kids. Carving a jack-o-lantern isn't easy enough for little kids and winds up being a Halloween project mostly done by the parent. Consider carving Halloween pep-o-lanterns with your kids for an easy, fun food project this year. Pep-o-lanterns are fun to make, and are easy enough for even a small child to work with their own pepper.

You can make your Halloween Pep-o-Lantern with any type of stuffing you want. You can use a standard pepper stuffing (the ground beef and rice recipes you easily find by a quick Internet search). Or you can make them even more fun for the kids by making Pizza Pep-o-Lanterns. A Halloween Pizza Pep-o-Lantern is an easy, fun, kid's Halloween project. Each child can choose the pizza fillings they like since each pepper is done individually. Here are the steps to making Pizza Pep-o-Lanterns.

Gather your Pepper Lantern Ingredients:

You will need one pepper per person. The tall thin ones work better for more face carving space. You may want to select different colors of peppers for variety among the kids. It's easier to identify whose pepper it is with different colors. Before brining the kids into the project, cut the tops out of the pepper, scoop out the seeds and rinse then out.

For the Pepper Lantern stuffing you can use any kind of cooked rice. To make this project easy on myself as well as the kids, I tossed in two of the boil in bag rice to cook while we worked on carving peppers. Each bag has two cups of rice and should do two peppers (1 cup per pepper). When you start the rice, also turn on the oven to preheat to 350 degrees F.

Other items needed:

1 Jar of pizza quick

Any pizza toppings your kids like. Toppings should be chopped up before starting

1 string cheese per pepper

1 small can of tomato paste

1 Glass baking dish

1 box Toothpicks

Carving easy fun food Pep-o-lantern: