Pizza Toppings for Kids: Cheese, Mushrooms, Peppers and Sausage

Seven favorite pizza toppings: the tomato sauce and cheese on every pizza, then ham, sausage, mushrooms, onions and peppers. Building a pizza is a great way to talk about food groups, from vegetables to dairy and meat.

Mushroom fills an entire column of the 8x8 grid, running upward. Cheese and ham read backwards.

Pizza Toppings Vocabulary: 7 Words to Find

Words run across, up and down; 4 of the 7 read backwards. The longest word is Mushroom, with 8 letters.

Cheese: Mozzarella and other cheeses, melted on top of almost every pizza.
Ham: Thin slices of cooked ham, found on Hawaiian pizza with pineapple.
Mushroom: Sliced mushrooms, a popular vegetable topping.
Onion: Sliced onions, a sweet and savory topping.
Pepper: Sliced sweet peppers, a crunchy vegetable topping.
Sausage: Crumbled Italian sausage, often flavored with fennel.
Tomato: Tomato sauce, spread on the dough before the other toppings.

How to Solve the Pizza Toppings Word Search

"Mushroom" fills a whole column, running upward, with a double O. "Pepper" has the only P, a double one, and also runs upward. "Cheese" has the only C and reads backwards, like "ham".

Pizza Party Activities for Kids

Make mini pizzas and let each child choose toppings from the list.
Sort the toppings into vegetables, meat and dairy.
Take a class vote on the best and the worst topping.