Let me set up the story first and then I’ll explain the pizza prank. Back when we only had three kids we used to frequently do homemade pizza nights. We would spread out the dough and pizza sauce and then divide the pizza into sections using cheese for lines.
Each person would create their own unique section with the toppings of their choice.
Our kids loved this and would wait and watch the pizza baking, eagerly anticipating their custom slice of pizza.
The pizza is ready!
Yeah!
Canaan was too young to eat pizza but he still enjoyed the experience.
Time to enjoy the homemade pizza!
Here is what a typical homemade pizza looked like fresh out of the oven:
Ok, so this is where the story gets interesting! Bethany had decided to do a homeschool unit themed around pizza. One of the books she selected was Pete’s a Pizza:
Here are the steps to recreate this prank for your own children. First, we helped our kids make circle shaped construction paper pizzas.
Then we put the pizzas in the oven while it was still turned off. We told the kids they needed to take baths and get ready for bed while the pizzas baked. While they were busy getting ready for bed we replaced the pizzas in the oven with Tostino’s Pizzas and hid the paper pizzas.
When the girls returned in their pajamas and peeked in the oven to watch the paper pizzas cooking they noticed that they looked real!
They were both so excited to eat their “paper” pizzas.
Mannah kept questioning, “Are you sure this was the paper pizza?”
This was only the beginning of the practical joke. When we finished eating I cut up the left over pizza into slices and placed the slices into plastic baggies. The girls watched me put them in the fridge and then we proceeded to clean up the kitchen. When they weren’t looking I replaced the real pizza slices with the paper pizza slices.
I asked Mannah to get something out of the fridge for me and when she opened the door and saw that the real pizza had turned back into paper pizza she was freaking out.
She kept saying “That’s impossible!” “How did this happen!” “I just can’t figure it out!” (I’m still not sure why they thought paper pizzas turning into real pizza was not that unusual but changing back into paper was a real miracle)
I didn’t want my girls to go crazy so I let them in on the secret.
They both thought it was a great trick!
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If you try it yourself please leave a reply and tell us how it goes!
