I have a little recent craftiness to share today. :)
Evan has always LOVED play food. We had a big bin of second-hand plastic food that Eric's mom gave us when Evan was still a baby. And then one day at a friend's house, I discovered her "felt food" and instantly fell in love with the idea.
Hand-crafted (with love!) play food made of soft felt. Perfection. What could be better???
Making it myself, of course. :)
There are TONS of ideas for felt food on crafty sites like Etsy - and even patterns for purchase, too. Honestly, I just like to just come up with my own way to put something together - and thus a project for the Fiskars Craft site was born.
You can see my entire HOW-TO article HERE. It covers a few basics to create and start your own play felt food collection with.
Breakfast!
Pizza and Pasta!
and Cookies!
Evan particularly loved the "pizza"...
I'm thinking of turning this into a regular periodic blog feature. Let me know if you'd be interested in seeing more how-to's on other felt-food yummies, right here on the blog. If there's enough interest I'll do my best to throw it into the rotation.
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I would love this... I have a 4 mons old baby girl so I would love to start building up a little basket of these for her! They are adorable! I have already been using a lot of felt on my little pillows so this will be fun! Love your work!
Posted by: Deanna Woodland | March 10, 2011 at 08:40 AM
This is great! My boyfriend's niece just got a huge play kitchen for Christmas, and her mom was worried about all the plastic toy food falling apart. Felt food would be just perfect!
Posted by: Heather V | March 10, 2011 at 09:29 AM
Adorable! Okay, so is there any chance you would make some to put in your etsy shop? I love the idea but am way short on time right now.
Posted by: Angela M | March 10, 2011 at 09:38 AM
Adorable Susan! Checking out your tutorial right now! My kids love play food too so this will be awesome to try for them!
Posted by: Missy Gener | March 10, 2011 at 09:54 AM
Love the play food!
Posted by: Diane Payne | March 10, 2011 at 09:57 AM
Love the felt play food!!!!!!!
Posted by: Jennifer Camplin | March 10, 2011 at 10:21 AM
Seriously cute! Where were you when my kids were little!
Posted by: jennifer | March 10, 2011 at 11:15 AM
yes, more food...love it! my 3 year old would love something like that...think I'll run to the store after the biggies get home from school and get me some felt! thanks for the ideas :)
Posted by: Laurie | March 10, 2011 at 11:20 AM
This is sooo cut!
Posted by: cathi | March 10, 2011 at 12:29 PM
These are all adorable examples of felt food. I've actually been thinking of making some for my boys since they love to pretend to cook like mommy. Can't wait to try your ideas - thank you so much for sharing them. :)
Posted by: Donna Jannuzzi | March 10, 2011 at 12:45 PM
i saw this on the fiskars site a couple of days ago. I have had a little addiction to making felt food myself. It would be a fun ittle regular feature. have a good day!
Posted by: gina f. | March 10, 2011 at 12:48 PM
Yes please, more felt food tutorials!
Posted by: Stacy B | March 10, 2011 at 01:00 PM
Susan...love the felt food idea :) thanks so much for sharing can't wait to make some for my little guys. I follow your blog and love all your work... thanks :)
Posted by: Karen | March 10, 2011 at 01:52 PM
Very cute! you always have such cute ideas
Posted by: Stephanie Buice | March 10, 2011 at 02:15 PM
Sooooo cute!! Always enjoy the tutorials... I made some donuts for the preschool once... felt is wonderful for that!! My Mom crocheted a bunch of play food... it was ADORABLE!!!
Posted by: Kristin Hayne | March 10, 2011 at 02:57 PM
Yes! I saw this on the fiskars site yesterday and meant to comment on it and forgot, sorry! But I love, love, love this idea. I'm going to go through my felt scraps and see what I can come up with too. You have the best ideas, please keep sharing any more you come up with!
Posted by: Jen F. | March 10, 2011 at 02:58 PM
You are amazing. That's all. :).
Posted by: Lisa VanderVeen | March 10, 2011 at 04:03 PM
My crafty mom made my son a "campsite kit" out of felt for xmas last year...logs, flames, marshmallows, sticks, hershey bars, graham crackers and a hot dog. ALL FELT
He LOVES it and still plays with it regularily. She also made a nice bag to keep it all in made out of a fun camping print. I will send you pics of it sometime :) What you have made is fabulous!
Posted by: Ann Marie | March 10, 2011 at 04:30 PM
I love felt food! Haha! That sounds weird to me, but I DO! I've been collecting it since I became pregnant. The PB Kids ones are super cute too. I'm obsessed with finding perfect toys, and I really love these.
Posted by: Laura Evangeline | March 10, 2011 at 05:05 PM
Yes please! Yes please! I don't have any kiddos (yet!) but even as a grown up I'm in love with play food! I always give it at Christmas toy drives :) I recently discovered felt play food too and it's just genius! But I'm no quite so good at the figuring out myself, so I'd love to pick your brain, so to speak!
Posted by: Anna K. | March 10, 2011 at 05:20 PM
Yes. More please. I love it.
Posted by: Colleen S | March 10, 2011 at 05:35 PM
Yes! Please share more about your felt foods. They are so cute!
Posted by: elana | March 10, 2011 at 07:24 PM
You are so super talented! Adorable and tempting to make, even though I don't have little ones anymore. ;)
Posted by: Melanie | March 10, 2011 at 10:51 PM
So so adorable!! Love felt toys especially those made by hand;)
Posted by: Michele H. | March 10, 2011 at 11:14 PM
LOOOOOOOVE!! these are great!! thank you!!
Posted by: Kerry | March 10, 2011 at 11:20 PM