This time of year I see a huge uptick in blog readers looking for felt food patterns. I suspect it has something to do with all those little kitchens Santa brought. In an effort to supply your chef with the widest choice of ingredients I present all of American Felt and Craft’s free felt food tutorials in one place. Just click on an image to see the free tutorial for DIY play felt food.
Cut apart felt Carrot tutorial
Simple carrot made in sections secured with hook and loop for an added dimension to your felt food crafting.
Felt Food Crackers Tutorial
My personal favorite free felt food blog tutorial is ‘Salty Crackers’ patterned after the classic Saltine Cracker – they are just on the fun side of quirky.
Felt Cherry Pie Tutorial
A free felt cherry pie tutorial in six fun slices. Also looks great under a decorative cake dome.
Felt Petit Fours Tea Party Cakes Tutorial
Tiny tea cakes make a wonderful and simple addition to your felt food crafts.
Felt Jelly Bean Tutorial
Try your hand at wet felting with this felt jelly bean tutorial.
Mini Felt Pumpkins Tutorial
A fun felt food pumpkin pattern and tutorial – a must for any felt foodies farmers market.
Felt rolled cigarette cookie tutorial
A simple no sew felt cookie for your cookie jar.
Felt Chocolate Chip Cookie Tutorial
The classic reins supreme these sweet felt cookies are made in minutes with our easy felt food tutorial.
Felt Popsicle Tutorial
Beat the heat with a sweet treat – our free felt Popsicle pattern will walk you through making them step by step.
Felt Fortune Cookie Tutorial
Add this felt fortune cookie pattern to your crafting menu and the future looks full of fun!
Felt Candy Cane Tutorial
As Christmas tree decor or just a seasonal treat these felt candy canes are easy to make with our detailed DIY.
Felt Sweethearts Valentines Candy Box Tutorial
This adorable felt and button sweetheart stuffie is a fun felt Valentines day craft that doubles as the perfect V-day gift for the older felt foodie.
Eat your veggies. Felt Cauliflower Food Tutorial
DIY Felt Cauliflower and Broccoli Felt Food Veggies
Looking for something a little sweeter? Try some Felt Food Cake Pops
Cake Pops
Felt appetizers; spring rolls, edamame, crab rangoon
Card Stock (for invitations, 3 invitations to a sheet)
Woven wreath form
2 containers for table decorations (small buckets would be cute)
Sand (a small amount to fill containers)
Baggies for Popsicle favors
Ribbon, rick rack or twine for Popsicle favors
Printable labels for Popsicle favors (I used Avery 5294)
Frozen Popsicles and lots of ’em (store-bought or homemade see recipe below)
Elmer’s or school glue (optional)
Outdoor play things like hula hoops, water guns, a sprinkler,or sidewalk chalk (store-bought or homemade in Popsicle molds if you’re a theme purist, recipe below)
Let’s get started:
First I printed out this insanely cute invite designed by Maura Huston of Blackbirdie and Pink Monster Knits onto card stock.
Here’s a blank version
Download this free printable 4th of July Popsicle party invitation it by control-clicking (Mac) or right-clicking (PC) and saving to your computer.
And while I was at it I created my stickers with another version of Maura Huston’s design:
Download it by control-clicking (Mac) or right-clicking (PC) and saving to your computer
These would also make adorable cupcake toppers, simply print onto card stock and sandwich two together with a toothpick in between!
Next I constructed my decor:
Felt Popsicle and pin wheel banner:
To make the banner you will first need to make 2 blue popsicles, 2 red popsicles and 1 striped popsicle from felt. Instructions can be found HERE
From there I made my pinwheels from this template
Each pinwheel is 2 colors and for this banner I needed 6 so I cut 12 squares.
——————————————————————————————————————————————————I stacked two squares together and cut through the dotted lines (but NOT through center ring), the folded the upper right hand corner (marked with a star on template) to the center and stitched down with a small running stitch. I repeated this process with the upper left corner (also marked on the template with a star) this can be done in any order but only fold down the areas marked with stars. Finish by folding the remaining points inward tacking down with a running stitch as you go.
With my pinwheels and popsicles done I was ready to assemble my banner, I made a loop on either end of my twine for easier hanging and then sewed each of my pieces to the twine. Pinwheel, felt ball, popsicle (repeat) with the three color version in the center. Technically I guess you could glue them but the Popsicles have to be properly balanced to keep from flipping around and it’s much easier to gauge this by sewing. When sewing the Popsicles to the twine I noticed that creating a bit of a V shape helped, tacking twine to center and then to both sides nearer the top.
Felt Popsicle table decorations
For these I created 2 Popsicles in red, white and blue as described here.
But rather than fitting felt sticks into the bottom I created a little more space inside the popsicle by cutting with my scissors.
I then slipped real Popsicle sticks through the bottoms and applied a small amount of felt glue (tacky glue will also work) and sewed up the bottoms.
When I had finished all 6 I simply filled my containers with sand and arranged my Popsicles.
Door Wreath
I constructed my wreath by making 3 pinwheels and 3 felt Popsicles and attached them to the wreath with felt glue
(SUPER AWESOME TIP: double stick tape will hold this puppies in place like you wouldn’t believe, making both your wreath and felt objects easy to store and 100% re-usable.
Favors:
To keep with my theme I made these felt Popsicle magnets.
I made a few brightly colored Popsicles, glued magnets to the back with felt glue, (allowed them to dry 24 hours) placed them in bags, added my stickers and tied some rick rack to the bottom to close them up.
These look adorable on any fridge and are daily reminders of your awesome shin-dig!
If magnets aren’t you thing try attaching a key ring or for your littlest guests add a mini rattle for sweet summer baby toy.
You may also consider store-bought pinwheels Slinky brand makes an awesome American flag version.
I plan to keep my guests entertained with fun outdoor activities like:
Popsicle stick house building contest (warning men seem to find this activity irresistible and you may lose your co-host for a few hours, possibly days!) Just throw a basket full of Popsicle sticks into a basket and set out some school glue and prepare to oohh and aww.
A sprinkler run, or water gun fight (gotta get those sticky little bodies clean somehow)
Sidewalk chalk, try making it in a popsicle mold with this recipe:
Word of Warning: DO NOT let any plaster of Paris go down the sink. It will harden and ruin your pipes.
Petroleum Jelly
Plaster of Paris (available at any craft or hardware store)
Washable Tempera paint in the colors of your choice
A Popsicle mold
Directions:
Grease mold with petroleum jelly.
Mix 1/2 cup of Plaster of Paris with 1/3 cup water. Mix well and slow for about 1 minute.
Immediately add 2 TBS of paint (or more for desired color) and mix well.
Spoon into molds. Tap molds gently to settle. (This will start to set very quickly so work in small batches)
Let chalk dry overnight.
and of course lots of Popsicle eating!
If you decide to make your own try this DRIPLESS recipe from Kitchen Scrapbook:
Nothing says summer like a Popsicle. Once you get the hang of it these felt Popsicles can be put together in no time!
Supply List:
Each 9x 12 sheet will make 2 Popsicles here I used, Rubber Duckie, Monarch Butterfly, Key Lime Pie and Lipstick
Scrap felt 2″ square per popsicle will more than suffice here I used Pastry
You will also need:
Matching thread (for each Popsicle color and stick color) cross stitching thread is fine just don’t use more than one strand or your piece may look more like frankenpop.
Stuffing
Scissors
Template below
Begin by cutting out the templates:
Assembly:
1: Cut out Popsicle template on fold, do not cut along dotted line or red and blue stripes unless you are making a three colored pop (see instructions for this below)
2: Fold over and stitch along the side using a running stitch and matching thread
3: Turn right side out and place seam in the center, stitch down middle using a running stitch and matching thread.
4: Attach the top pieces using an overcast stitch and matching thread, you may need to trim the oval-shaped tops and bottoms to fit.
5. Stuff popsicle (you may need a pencil or chopstick to assist in this); cut a small slit in through the center of bottoms.
6: Stack stick pieces together and overcast stitch around the outside leaving 1/4″ unsewn along the top.
7. Slip stick piece in through the slit in bottom piece.
8. Fold unsewn flaps down and sew down using a running stitch and thread that matches Popsicle color.
9. Sew bottoms into place using an overcast stitch as in step 4.
To create a layered Popsicle:
Shown here: White, Peacock, Lipstick, and Pastry
Cut along red and blue lines, cut each strip (on fold) from a different color of felt. Sew strips together with running stitch making sure the seams are facing outward for step 2 and inside for step 3, proceed as outlined above.
TIP: Our Mini Rattle inserts fit perfectly inside this felt Popsicle, simply slip one in during the stuffing process to create an adorable summertime baby rattle.
Stay tuned for next tutorial “Patriotic Popsicle Party”, an awesome 4th of July party plan featuring print ables from our friend Maura from Blackbirdie Designs, and more felt fun than you can shake a Popsicle stick at.
