Felt Food Exchange

We held our second felt food with mamas from our mother's group. After the success of our first exchange we were excited to get a second one on the books.  My two little ones have LOVED all of their felt food and I love that I only have to master one food, but receive 9 different kinds in return.  The possibilities for felt food are endless and luckily there are many tutorials online to help.  I've posted many felt food ideas on my Pinterest board.

We had the same rules of our last swap and again we had another successful swap.

Not all of us are sewers - some of us sew with a machine, some "sew" with hot glue, and then there are the few who are amazing hand stitches, but at the end of the day we all produce fun food, made with love.

This month's felt food selections:

1. Smores ( chocolate, graham crackers, and melted marshmallows)
2. Mugs of hot chocolate with marshmallows
3. Pirouette cookies
4. Cinnamon rolls, fried eggs, and bacon
5. Sandwich fixings
6. Hotdogs with buns

7. Soup can with saltines

8. Potato, carrot, and peapod

9. Cupcakes with additional toppings

10. Pretzels

11. Condiment Packets - Ketchup, Mayo, and Mustard.

12. Sushi Set

Before the swap was over we were already planning our next felt food swap!  We have one planned prior to Christmas - felt food will make fabulous gifts!  We also decided to host a felt activity where mamas can make any learning activity as long as it is created from felt.  I can't wait to see everyone's  creation.  We may be going felt crazy here!

Felt Food Exchange

Luckily, I belong to a great Mama's group - Lakes Region Mamas on www. meetup.com-  with lots of creative mamas! A bunch of us got together last night for a felt food exchange.  I've been wanting to make some new felt food for our play kitchen, but making lots of different food is daunting for me.  I'm a novice on the sewing machine and hand stitching just doesn't call my name! So, a felt food exchange it was - I only had to "master" one type of food, but I would receive 10 different foods in return!

Last month, our group did much larger busy bag exchange, but for the felt food I decided to keep the group smaller.  There were 11 mamas in the group.  We each made a different type of food.  

The rules were simple:

1. Once you commit to coming you must come!

2. Create 11 of the same product.

3. Pick one food type to make.  This may be a group of food ( breakfast, sandwich, pizza, etc.) or a single food item.

4. You must have at least 3 pieces in what you are going to exchange with each person.  So you can have a three piece set or 3 of one food item.

5. Put together the quality of food you want to receive in return.

6.  Have fun! 

Make your own pizza - with a huge bag of pizza toppings to go with it.  I think we'll be having playing pizza parlor soon!










We had a bakery set of baguette, doughnuts, and a frosted sugar cookie.

Adorable strawberries and a pancake with syrup and butter.













Raviolis - perfect for soup or a bowl of pasta!

Tea anyone?  Tea bag, scone with cream and jam and  a lemon slice! 

Chocolate, strawberry or vanilla - your choice!  Perfect treat for a warm summer day! 

Bow tie pasta and sauce - my little ones will love making one of their favorite meals.

Apple, watermelon, and banana slices -let's make a fruit salad!

Chinese food - all packaged in a take-out container and chopsticks! 

Bag of ruffled chips - now I may need to sew up a sandwich to go with it! 

Fortune cookies - with their very own sweet sayings inside. 

I was amazed at the love and creativity that went into all of the food - and glad that all I needed to do was master my chips and bags!  Owl and Sassy Sis loved waking up to a buffet of new felt food waiting for them  this morning!