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 pizza 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 four slices of pizza with sauce and cheese. Toppings include 4 slices of bell pepper, 4 slices of mushroom, 12 slices of pepperoni, and 6 slices of olives. You can duplicate it as much as you want to make multiple pieces of each food!
SUPPLIES
- Pizza patterns (see above)
- Paper scissors
- Light tan felt material
- Red felt material
- Dark red felt material
- White felt material
- Off-white felt material
- Green felt material
- Black felt material
- Stuffing
- Sewing pins
- Sewing scissors
- Sewing needle
- Embroidery floss (light tan, red, dark red, white, off-white, green, and black)
INSTRUCTIONS
- Print out the pizza patterns I’ve provided and cut them from the paper.
- Place the patterns on the appropriate colored felt and pin them in place, then use sewing scissors to cut out the felt pieces.
- Align and pin the two halves of pizza crust together and thread light tan embroidery floss onto your sewing needle. Then, with a pencil, lightly sketch a curved line along and about 1/2 inch in from the arc of the crust.
- Starting to one side of the pizza slice’s point, whipstitch along that edge and the top arc of the crust, stopping at the far end of the arc and setting that thread aside for a moment.
- From the open edge of the pizza slice, use a running stitch along the pencil line to seal off the crust, concealing the first and ending knot between the layers, then use a little stuffing to inflate.
- Pick up the previous thread and continue stitching down the remaining side of the pizza slice, concealing the end knot in between the layers.
- Repeat steps 3 through 6 to create the three other pizza slices.
- Align and pin the two halves of pizza sauce together and thread red embroidery floss onto your sewing needle.
- Begin sewing around the edges of your pizza sauce using a whipstitch, concealing the first knot and ending knot in between the layers.
- Repeat steps 8 and 9 to create the three other pizza sauces.
- Align and pin the two halves of cheese together and thread off-white embroidery floss onto your sewing needle.
- Begin sewing around the edges of your cheese using a whipstitch, concealing the first knot and ending knot in between the layers.
- Repeat steps 11 and 12 to create the three other cheeses.
- Align and pin the two halves of bell pepper together and thread green embroidery floss onto your sewing needle.
- Begin sewing around the outer and then inner edges of your bell pepper using a whipstitch, concealing the first knot and ending knot in between the layers.
- Repeat steps 14 and 15 to create the rest of the bell pepper pieces.
- Align and pin the two halves of mushroom together and thread white embroidery floss onto your sewing needle.
- Begin sewing around the edges of your mushroom using a whipstitch, concealing the first knot and ending knot in between the layers.
- Repeat steps 17 and 18 to create the rest of the mushroom pieces.
- Align and pin the two halves of pepperoni together and thread dark red embroidery floss onto your sewing needle.
- Begin sewing around the edges of your pepperoni using a whipstitch, concealing the first knot and ending knot in between the layers.
- Repeat steps 20 and 21 to create the rest of the pepperoni pieces.
- Align and pin the two halves of olive together and thread black embroidery floss onto your sewing needle.
- Begin sewing around the outer and then inner edges of your olive using a whipstitch, concealing the first knot and ending knot in between the layers.
- Repeat steps 23 and 24 to create the rest of the olive pieces.
- Enjoy!
Whole Heartily 