How To Make Felt Food: Our Gigantic List of Free Online Tutorials & Patterns
Making felt food for kids is very gratifying. With simple and inexpensive materials you can create realistic looking play food that will last for years and promote open-ended, imaginative play. You needn’t spend your time hunting the web for tutorials because I’ve compiled this mega list with well over a hundred for you.
If you don’t consider yourself a strong sewer, I recommend starting with fried eggs, cookies and strawberries. With each food you make you will gain confidence and learn little tips and tricks. Soon, you may be coming up with your own patterns.
I use a mix of hand and machine sewing when I make felt food, but rest assured that it all can be made by hand if you don’t have a machine. It’s a great craft for doing in front of the television or listening to music.
Here are all the tutorial links in my collection, but feel free to add others in the comments and I’ll update this list. You’ll notice that some foods have multiple tutorials listed for the same food. Sometimes they are look slightly different or use a different process – pick which one appeals to you.
And, remember, packaging them up (and here) is half the fun!
Need some help with basic hand stitching? → Lit’l Brown Bird’s Ideas
Fruits:
- Apples – Playing With Your Food
- Apple – While Wearing Heels
- Banana – While Wearing Heels
- Banana Slice – Playing With Your Food
- Cantaloupe Slice (peelable) – Field Notes from an Evolutionary Psychologist
- Cherries– Cut Out + Keep
- Cherry – Fairy Fox
- Grapes – While Wearing Heels
- Kiwi Slices – Craftiness is not Optional
- Persimmon – The Shishi Girl
- Pineapple Slices – Mama’s Felt Cafe
- Raspberries – Supercat 0000 on Deviant Art
- Strawberries – Lit’l Brown Bird
- Strawberries – Bread & Buttons
- Strawberries – Art Threads
- Strawberry Halves – Megnificent Made
- Orange slices – Thinking Mama
- Pear – My Creative Place
- Pineapple – While Wearing Heels
- Watermelon – Cut Out + Keep
- Watermelon slice – Mama’s Felt Cafe on Natural Parents Network
Meat:
- Bacon – Mega Crafty
- Bacon (bendable) – Mabe, With Love
- Chicken Legs – Art Threads
- Chicken Legs – Craftiness is not Optional
- Whole Chicken – Fairy Fox
- Corned Beef Dinner with Potatoes, Cabbage and Baby Carrots – Ivers
- Hamburger and fixins’– Craftiness is not Optional
- Sausage – Riches and Roses
- Sausage – Perfect Cupcakes
- Steak – Mabe with Love
- Whole Turkey – Smashed Peas and Carrots
A bowl of ravioli and bow tie pasta I made for a young friend.
Pasta:
- Agnolotti – Treasures for Tots
- Farfalle/Bow Tie – One Inch World
- Farfalle/Bow Tie (without pinking shears) – Mama’s Felt Cafe
- Lasagna – Treasures for Tots
- Ravioli – One Crafty Mumma
- Tortellini – Helping Little Hands
Vegetables:
- Asparagus – While Wearing Heels
- Beets – Cut Out + Keep
- Broccoli – Pink & Green Mama
- Broccoli & Cauliflower Florets – Craftiness is not Optional
- Carrot – 3 In Under 3 (made here with chenille, but would work great with felt)
- Carrot – Craftiness is not Optional
- Carrot – Et Moi Elors
- Corn on the Cob – Cook Clean Craft
- Corn on the Cob – While Wearing Heels
- Eggplant – While Wearing Heels
- Green Beans – Craftiness is not Optional
- Leeks – Et Moi Alors
- Lemon/Tomato slices – One Crafty Mumma
- Lettuce – One Inch World
- Head of Lettuce – Et Moi Alors
- Onion (whole)– While Wearing Heels
- Peppers – Art Threads
- Green Pepper Rings – Fairy Fox
- Baked Potato with butter – Craftiness is not Optional
- Potatoes – Art Threads
- Potatoes and sack – It Happens in a Blink
- Pumpkin – Et Moi Alors
- Pumpkin – One Creative Mommy on Nap Time Creations
- Pumpkin – American Felt & Craft
- Radish – While Wearing Heels
- Radishes – Et Moi Alors
- Summer Squash – Cut Out + Keep
- Tomatoes – Et Moi Alors (I know these are technically fruit!)
- Tomato Slice – One Inch World
Pizza:
- Pizza Slice – Reflections of a Semi-Crunchy Mama
- Pizza Pie– The Crafty Woman
- Sloppy Pizza – Avocado & Papaya
Bread:
- French Bread – While Wearing Heels
- Loaf of Bread – Thrifty Craft Mom
- Sliced and Loaf Bread – Twelve Crafts Till Christmas
- Whole Wheat Toast – Fairy Fox
A platter of sweets I made for my niece last year.
Sweets:
- Cake and Frosting – She Wears Flowers on 1 Hungry Hippie
- Rainbow Birthday Cake Slice – Handmade Cuddles
- Candy – Kitty Ballistic
- Chocolate Bar – Craftiness is not Optional
- Cream (for frosting) – Fairy Fox
- Black and White Cookies – Pretty Prudent
- Cigarette Cookies – American Felt & Craft Blog
- Cream Cookie – Fairy Fox
- Fortune Cookies – Martha Stewart
- Sugar Cookies with piping bag – Ikat Bag
- Cinnamon Roll – Smashed Peas and Carrots
- Cupcake – Maedchenmitherz
- Cupcake & frosting – Smashed Peas & Carrots
- Doughnuts – Skip To My Lou
- Ice Cream Cone and Scoops – One Creative Mommy
- Ice Cream Sundae – Antibromide on Instructables
- Ice Cream Cone and Scoop – Handmade Cuddles
- Lollipops and Dum Dum Suckers – It Happens in a Blink
- Macarons – Sweet Emma Jean
- Macaroons – Fairy Fox
- Petit Fours – American Felt & Craft Blog
- Cherry Pie – American Felt and Craft
- Cherry Pie – Martha Stewart
- Popsicle – One Crafty Mumma
- Popsicle – Twelve Crafts Till Christmas
- Popsicle – American Felt & Craft Blog
- Pop Tarts – Instructables
- Pumpkin Pie with Whipped Cream – Smashed Peas and Carrots
- Ribbon Candy – Snap!
- Ribbon Candy – The Purl Bee (tutorial is for an ornament, you can just leave off the string to hang it)
- Roll Cake – Fairy Fox
- Root Beer Float – Mama’s Felt Cafe
- Sandwich Biscuits – My Felt Friends
- Strawberry Shortcake – Megnificent Made
- Swiss Cake Roll – Feed Dog
- Swiss Cake Roll – Handmade Cuddles
- Tarts – Supercat 0000 on Deviant Arts
- Waffle Cone – Hannah Hoosier
- Whipped Cream Dollop – Hello Ashley Ann
Other:
- Brown bag lunch (sandwich, chips, Swiss cake roll and bag) – Skip To My Lou
- Cheese – Et Moi Elors
- Clams – My Felt Friends
- Dumpling – Fairy Fox
- French fries – Craftiness is not Optional
- French toast – One Creative Mommy
- Grilled Cheese Sandwich – Mama’s Felt Cafe
- Indian Food – Wading Through Soup
- Latkes – Mama’s Felt Cafe on Natural Parents Network
- Marshmallows & Roasting Stick – Mama’s Felt Cafe
- Mushrooms – Fairy Fox
- Pancakes – Mega Crafty
- Pancakes – One Creative Mommy
- Pancakes – The Gunny Sack
- Popcorn and Movie Tub – Craftiness is not Optional
- Sandwich and chips – Snazzle Craft
- Sushi – Tao of Craft
- Popcorn – Playing With Your Food
- Pot Stickers – Craftiness is not Optional
- Pot Stickers – Tea Rose Home
- Salty Crackers – American Felt & Craft Blog
- Soft Pretzel (made with cotton fabric) – Craftiness is not Optional
- Spring Rolls – Pink & Green Mama
- Swiss and Cheddar Cheese Slices – Helping Little Hands
- Spinach & Mushroom Quiche slice – Mama’s Felt Cafe
- Tamales – Mama’s Felt Cafe
- Tea Bag – Dream a Li’l Dream
- Waffles – Craftiness is Not Optional (she used cotton fabric, but use same instructions for felt)
Eggs I made for my son. Eggs are a great start for beginners.
Eggs:
Sunnyside Up Fried Eggs – One Crafty Mumma
Whole Eggs (felt version here) – Lola Nova
Scrambled Eggs – Helping Little Hands
Containers:
Brown paper bag – Skip To My Lou
Chinese takeout box – Lit’l Brown Bird
Berry Container – Mega Crafty
Woven Basket – Factory Direct Craft
Misc (not felt):
Play Oven Mitts – Craftiness Is Not Optional
A big SHOUT OUT of GRATITUDE to the generous bloggers above who have shared these tutorials online!
French macarons – my fanciest play food to date, made for my son’s friend on her 4th birthday.
(Image: Carrie McBride)
Re-edited from a post originally published 12.17.10-NT
