What child (or inner child) doesn’t love preparing toy food in a play kitchen?
I had a play kitchen when I was a little girl and loved preparing eggs and bacon for myself, my sister and my parents. Now that I’m grown and have a daughter of my own, I want to make her some handcrafted play food so she can enjoy making meals for everyone during play, or while we cook in the kitchen next to her!
Please feel free to use these patterns to create some play food for you and yours! This pattern will make two eggs and two pieces of bacon. You can duplicate it as much as you want to make multiple pieces of each food!
SUPPLIES
- Eggs and bacon patterns (see above)
- Paper scissors
- White felt material
- Yellow felt material
- Dark red felt material
- Pale pink felt material
- 2 pinches of stuffing
- Sewing pins
- Sewing scissors
- Sewing needle
- Embroidery floss (white, yellow, dark red, and pale pink)
INSTRUCTIONS
- Print out the eggs and bacon pattern I’ve provided, then cut the patterns from the paper.
- Pin the patterns on the appropriate colored felt, then use sewing scissors to cut the felt.
- Thread a sewing needle with yellow embroidery floss and pin the egg yolk to a piece of the egg white.
- Begin sewing the yellow yolk onto the egg white felt using a whipstitch. When you reach 2/3 of the way around the yolk, stop and place a small pinch of stuffing underneath it, then complete the circle and tie it off underneath the egg white layer.
- Thread a sewing needle with white embroidery floss and pin the second egg white layer over the stitching on the back of the first.
- Using a whipstitch, begin sewing around the edges of the two layers of egg white, concealing the first knot and end knot in between the layers.
- Thread a sewing needle with pale pink embroidery floss and pin two pieces of marbling onto one side of two different bacon strips.
- Begin sewing the pale pink marbling onto the dark red felt bacon using a whipstitch. When completed with each streak, tie it off underneath the bacon layer.
- Thread a sewing needle with dark red embroidery floss and pin the second bacon layer over the stitching on the back of the first.
- Using a whipstitch, begin sewing around the edges of the two layers of bacon, concealing the first knot and end knot in between the layers.
- Enjoy!
INTRODUCTION
This recipe is featured when Mulan is about to start her training. Mushu wakes her up the first morning with this happy breakfast to get her day started!
You can see little grains of rice in the porridge Mushu holds out to Mulan so to stay as true to the recipe from the film as I could I made congee. Congee is a type of porridge created with rice and enjoyed in China. It’s super easy to make and super delicious! I also chose to make the eggs in a muffin tin and the bacon on a baking sheet so I could cook them all at once and it was easier to keep them in the correct shape for the happy face on the porridge.
MUSHU’S HAPPY PORRIDGE
Whole Heartily 