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Free printable pizza toppings and activities (21 PDFs)

Printable pizza toppings

Mmmmm pizza. Most people like pizza, and just about all children do. Use these free printables to teach kids about food with a fun make a pizza craft activity. The printable pizza toppings and base come in both color and black and white if you want to include a coloring exercise to help hone their fine motor skills.

This craft activity is as easy as pie; simply print out a pizza base along with the toppings you require, get students to cut out the foods they like and stick them to their pizzas. This is best done with craft glue, but you can get by with clear sticky tape or a stapler.

If you use tape or staplers to make your paper pizza, you can just attach one edge of each topping and ruffle the ingredients up a bit. This will give you an interesting 3D effect.

The pages above and below include these printable toppings –

Pineapple, salami, basil, tomato, melted cheese, and bell pepper/capsicum, bacon, mushrooms, shrimp/prawns, fish, eggs, zucchini, olives, meat/ham, chilli, cheese, parsley, onion, and sausage.

If you feel the pages are missing an ingredient, just get your class to draw what they need on a separate piece of paper. They can then color it, cut it out, and stick their new ingredient to the pizza base!

There are several ways you can use this, not only as a bit of fun but also as a language learning exercise. Read below for some wonderful ideas!

How to use the printable pizza toppings

This craft project is perfect for teaching younger learners about food. Besides just cutting and pasting to make pizzas, here are a few other things you can do in this activity.

  • Ask students to write the names of each topping on the pages before they cut them out. This will help reinforce any new words and practise spelling.
  • Give students recipes to follow. Students can follow a list of ingredients to make different kinds of pizzas. You can also make half and half pizzas to make this more challenging.
  • Get your class to design their own unique pizzas. Afterwards, they can name it and write down the ingredients on them.
  • Let children design their own new toppings that they can use. This is great to make fun, silly pizzas for a bit of laughter.
  • Have a class competition to see who can make the most beautiful, delicious, or disgusting pizza.
  • Make faces in the pizzas using the toppings; this is a heap of fun and can also be used to teach the body parts of the head. Later, your students can describe them. For example, it may have eggs for eyes, cheese for a nose, fish for ears, and shrimp for hair.

Printable pizza toppings in black and white

Below are the same printables but without color. These are perfect if you also want to make this pizza craft a coloring exercise.

For younger learners, you may need to explain what some of the pictures represent and also give them guidance on which colors to use.

Whole printable pizza

The pizza templates below have the finished products. They are handy if you want to use pizzas in a lesson or activity but don’t have enough time to make them from scratch. There is one that is pre-colored and one that is outlines that you can also use as a coloring exercise.

Printable pizza menus

The printable pizza menu below can be used for an enjoyable writing task in tandem with the make a pizza craft activity. Learners need to complete the menu with the restaurant name, pizzas available, pricing, drinks, and desserts.

There is also a chart that shows different kinds of pizzas with their names and toppings illustrated. This can serve as a guide for the pizza craft activity, as students can see which toppings belong on each pizza and copy the ingredients.

Printable pizza box templates

Once you have made your paper pizzas, why not put them on boxes! They are easy to make; once these templates are printed, it is just a matter of cutting them out and folding along the dotted lines. There is a typical square pizza box and a pizza slice box to choose from.

You can use either sticky tape or a stapler to assemble them in a strong fashion. It is also advisable to use card stock as it is more rigid. Note that for the square box, you will want to print on a larger-size piece of card than the pizza templates above. Or, you can simply cut the pizzas up to fit them in.

The boxes can be decorated with colors, drawings, logos, and slogans for extra fun.

Related activities

Check out the printable paper food craft for some similar fun with different things we eat.

For teaching and learning vocabulary, there are some beautiful free flashcards for food, fruit, and vegetables.

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