Where do you buy your felt play food?

[Straggletag]

New Year's is a little lean this year, so we've pooled resources with the extended family to buy one gift for the girls to share: an heirloom quality custom play kitchen inspired by some of the pantries in the Beatrix Potter books. Honest, it's not as expensive as it sounds, or maybe I'm speaking from living in a town where each kid gets something on the level of an iPod.

We're scrounging old kitchen items, food tins, and so on to stock the play kitchen, we already have a great tea set that's been waiting, but we've agreed we'd love to get a bunch of nice felt play food for their stockings and perhaps for just because gifts throughout the year. I'm an ok crafter, but have no opportunity right now with a toddler, a newborn, and a business, so I'd like to buy some pre-made rather than the patterns and do it myself.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

[KristyDi]

Have you checked etsy? I don't know about prices, but I know I've seen some.

That sounds like an awesome gift!

[artpen]

www.blueberriest.com has some felt food. I haven't bought any from there but I bought my pouch from here and the quality is good. I would also try etsy.

[nolonger]

we got ours here:

`http://www.etsy.com/shop/Oceantribes

cute, reasonable, and noncorporate.

[lilyka]

etsy will give you thousands and thousands of choices for reasonable prices. all hand made.

[maple_mama]

Could you try making some of your own? I bought some felt sheets (the small ones, the size of a sheet of paper) at JoAnn Fabric for 25 cents each--I made some flat pizzas with tan felt for the dough, red for the sauce, then green, white, yellow, tan, and red for the toppings (onions, peppers, cheese, mushrooms, tomatoes), I just cut out the basic shapes with scissors. The dough circles can also be used a tortilla wraps, so you could cut up some colors to use as food for the inside. Also, cut up white felt into little strips for spaghetti, then plop an irregular circle of red felt on top for some spaghetti. My kids love assembling their pizzas and other foods. I bet you could be really creative with this and make lots of different things, and it's pretty inexpensive.

[Straggletag]

Originally Posted by maple_mama

Could you try making some of your own? I bought some felt sheets (the small ones, the size of a sheet of paper) at JoAnn Fabric for 25 cents each--I made some flat pizzas with tan felt for the dough, red for the sauce, then green, white, yellow, tan, and red for the toppings (onions, peppers, cheese, mushrooms, tomatoes), I just cut out the basic shapes with scissors. The dough circles can also be used a tortilla wraps, so you could cut up some colors to use as food for the inside. Also, cut up white felt into little strips for spaghetti, then plop an irregular circle of red felt on top for some spaghetti. My kids love assembling their pizzas and other foods. I bet you could be really creative with this and make lots of different things, and it's pretty inexpensive.

Oh, I agree that it's a simple craft to do, but as I said in the OP, I'm currently unable to free myself up for even simple crafts. Not before New Year's, at any rate, and I was hoping to put a few in the girls' stockings.

[tabrizia]

Etsy has a ton of options. We got some for DD and DS here and it looks great!

[sapphire_chan]

I did a combination of Etsy for the patterns and Michaels for the felt. But there are lots of Etsy sellers who sell already made felt food too.

Oops, hit submit too fast.

I was suggesting the patterns so your crafty friends and relatives could have some fun.

[ashleyhaugh]

there are quite a few on diaperswappers that make it too.

[kcstar]

May not be a really MDC thing, and might not fit your budget but: Walmart, $10