Felt Brown Paper Bag Lunch

This is a fun felt brown bag with all of the goodies.

The Brown Paper Bag

You need two pieces of light brown felt. Cut a square out of the bottom corner on each side. With pinking shears trim across the top. Trim just enough to pink the top. Sew across the bottom and along each side. Then Pinch the side and bottom together and sew. And then its Finished!

The Chip Bag and Chips

Cut two pieces of felt. Embellish the front with stripe and medallion. I meant to embroider "chips" in the white circle. You could also write chips with a paint marker. Then place right sides together and stitch along each side. Turn right side out and then stitch across the bottom. I used a blanket stitch along with a couple rows of stitching. Next cut chips out of yellow felt. Stitch together close to the edge. You can add rows of stitching to make them 'ruffled' chips if you like.


The Ho Ho

Cut 2 pieces if dark brown felt and two pieces of white felt. Then place the pieces together and sew around the outside edge, leaving an opening for turning on the short side. Next turn right side out. Top stitch around the edge on the white piece only. Don't worry about closing the openings--they will be in the center. Place the white piece on top of the dark brown (bottom edges lined up) and roll up. And finally slip stitch the roll closed along the outside edge.

The Sandwich

Cut two pieces of off - white fabric and a strip of light brown felt about. You might need to attach two pieces together.
Sew the strip to one side of the white square overlapping the ends.Sew the white square to the other side leaving an opening for turning.Turn right side out. Stuff with polyester fiberfill and slip stitch opening closed.

Make ingredients for your sandwich by sewing two of each color together. You can sew around the edge leaving an opening for turning, turn and topstitch or just sew the pieces together (this is how I made them except for the bologna which I turned). Add details with your machine.

This Idea was from www.skiptomylou.org

Felt Easter Goodies

This are so cute! I just love these little felt peeps. And the cute little Easter basket is so good you could almost eat it. LOL

Found this great idea at a blog called Dusty Bottom Acres.

Felt Stuff

This is a fun felt camera. Which is a great idea because my little one loves to play with my camera and now he can have his own to play with and I don't have to worry about him breaking it!

More fun Felt electronics. Really these are all cases but if you fill them with stuffing and sew them up. They are fun "knock offs" for the kidos to play with.

Felt Grocery Sets

So cute I love all of these!

Fun Felt Sets

MOVIE PACK- Popcorn, drink, M&M's and Mars bar

TEA PARTY- Tea cups, Tea kettle on a Tea Tray

DOCTOR BAG

POTS & PANS SET

CHEIF COOKING KIT

BBQ SET- Grill, tools, steak, hamburger and hotdog

Flannel Board Story Box

InstructionsThings You'll Need:
Clean pizza box or other sturdy box with a hinged type lid.
Felt.
Tape measure.
Scissors.
Hot glue gun.
2 hot glue sticks.
12" dowel rod.

Step 1:Measure the top of the pizza box. Cut a piece of felt using measurements.

Step 2:Position the closed box with lid hinged in the back. Starting with the top left, glue the felt to the top of the box, and press felt firmly to box. Use extra glue on corners and a large dot in the center. For the most secure hold, put the line of hot glue ¼ -⅛" away from the edge of the box.

Only glue up to 12" at a time to keep the glue from cooling too fast.

Step 3:Trim away excess felt.

Step 4:Use a 12" dowel rod to prop up lid when telling a flannel board story. Use the inside to store dowel rod and flannel board pieces when not in use

Lap Flannel Story Board

Things You'll Need:
Old pair of adult blue jeans.
Scissors,
Tape measure.
Felt,
Thread,
Sewing machine.
Iron.
Pins.
Iron on pellon.
60" length of bias tape.

Instructions
Step 1:Cut open a leg of the blue jeans. Cut a rectangle 20" x 9" from the denim. If there is not enough material, adjust pattern as needed. Cut out one of the back pockets.

Step 2:Cut 20" x 9" pieces of felt and iron on pellon. Iron pellon to felt to help felt hold shape and keep from stretching.

Step 3:Lay denim face down. Place felt on top with pellon in center. Pin together. Sew around edges using a ¼" seam allowance. Trim edges.

Step 4:Fold in half and mark fold with pins or chalk. Sew marked line to create a spine for the lap book.

Step 5:
Sew bias tape around edges of lap book. Trim threads.

Step 6:On the front, hot glue blue jean pocket. Use to store flannel board pieces when not in use.

Fun stories to make for your flannel board:
Hey Diddle, Diddle
Print out, laminate and apply felt or sandpaper to the back of figures of a cat, fiddle, cow, moon and dog. You can find templates online or draw or trace the figures directly onto felt and cut them out. Introduce the figures one at a time as you say each verse. For example, bring the cat out, then the fiddle. Place them to the side of the board and bring out the cow and the moon, and so on until you finish the rhyme.
Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater
Re-enact this nursery rhyme using a large pumpkin flannel board piece, a figure of a man (Peter) and a woman (his wife). Hide Peter's wife under the pumpkin when you get to the end of the rhyme, which describes him putting her in a pumpkin shell.
Pussycat, Pussycat
Make flannel board figures of the queen, cat, chair and mouse. For maximum durability, print the figures onto card stock or another sturdy paper. Recite the story, hiding the mouse under the chair and performing other actions along with the rhyme. Let the children take turns telling the story from different perspectives such as that of the mouse or the queen.
Georgie, Porgie
Print out or make several boy and girl figures, as well as images of puddings and pie (since he's "Georgie Porgie, Pudding and Pie"). Make sure you add large lips to the two main characters so that Georgie can bestow kisses. Start with one figure of a boy "Georgie" (surrounded by a pudding and pie) and one figure of a girl. Add more boys and girls to the board when you come to the part of the rhyme where "the boys came out to play." Make Georgie disappear when other children appear.
Three Little Kittens
Create flannel board figures of three cats and three sets of mittens. Be sure the cats are large enough to wear the mittens. Color the cats in shades of white, brown, black or gray and the mittens in primary colors. Recite the rhyme once or twice in its original form, then add colors into it, such as "One little white kitten lost his blue mitten and he began to cry...."

Felt Sandwich with Chips

Basically the construction on these is pretty simple. Everything was handstitched using embroidery thread matching the color to the felt. I only used two threads of the embroidery thread in most cases and I used a blanket stitch on everything. the only exceptions to this are the chips and the chip bag. I whip stitched the yellow circle and white line onto the red bag but I did a blanket stitch to attach the two bag pieces together. **NOTE: You could add a little velcro to the opening of the chip bag if you want it to "close". However, I did not.

Potato Chips and Bag:
The chips were the only thing that were not handsewn. The chips were made by first taking one sheet of felt and cutting it in half to make two sheetsthat measured 6"x 9". Then I placed them together and loaded the sewing machine up with a matching thread color. Then I placed the presser foot along on edge. I sewed vertically following the short (6") end. After I sewed that first line, then I moved the presser foot and placed it up against the first line and used that line as a guide. I continued until the entire sheet was stitched with evenly spaced lines. Using this method the stitch lines end up being about 1/4" apart. Then I used the chip pattern (the cutout shape from the pattern sheet) and laid it on top of the stitched sheet of felt and started cutting. You want to make sure your lines run vertically and are centered correctly on the chip (see the pattern drawing for a rough guide). Because the felt has all the stitching, the chips can be "curled" to look like real ruffle chips!!


Sandwich:
For the sandwich, cut 4 pieces of felt for the white bread parts. I wrote on the pattern to cut two strips of dark brown felt in a 14" long by 1/2" wide strip. In order to do this and get it to fit on one sheet of felt, you will have to cut it out on the diagonal. It will take two pieces of felt to do just this part. But don't be discouraged! Save those scraps! They will come in handy for future felt projects I am sure.

Blanket stitch the brown strip onto one side of the white bread part. You can start in the middle of the bottom of the piced of bread or you can do what I did which is start in one of the indented parts of the side. When you go to handstitch the second white bread piece on, leave an opening large enough to stuff batting in. I just used regular Poly-fil. Try not to overstuff it or you will get puffy, swollen looking bread.

Swiss Cheese:
This was pretty simple. I just blanket stitched the holes first (it is easier to hide your starter stitches that way). The I stitched the two cheese pieces together along the outside. That's it!

Lettuce:
I blanket stitched the outside first. Then I hand basted the main "vein" going from one end to the other. Make sure that you get a good secure knot to start. Then when I got to the other end of the lettuce, I pulled the thread to get the rippled effect. Don't pull too tight, it doesn't take much to get the ripple effect. I added a few more veins coming out from the main one also using a hand sewn basting stitch but those were decorative and I did not pull those tight. Do what you feel looks best. Some of the veins may need to be pulled a bit to get the lettuce effect that you like best. Having the rippled effect with the basting stitches and not leaving the lettuce flat really gives the lettuce a realistic look and gives it a more three-dimensional look.

Tomato:
This was one of the harder components of the sandwich. I recommend cutting out the parts with an Exacto knife. The tomato consists of three parts. The back is red, the middle is pink, and the top is the red cutout piece. First whip-stitch the red cutout piece onto the pink piece but only stitch the middle parts NOT the outside edge. Then I just stitched some "seeds" using the same read embroidery thread that I just stitched the pieces together with. Then put the back red piece on and blanket stitch the pieces together.

Other Sandwich Parts:
The rest of the parts were all just blanket stitched except for the peanut butter and jelly. Those were a single piece of felt cut out using the pattern

Blog: Mojo & Co

Felt Apple

I used: Red felt (free) Green and brown felt (90¢ per sheet) Thread (red, brown and green (from my stash) and stuffer (from a dead teady bear!) oh, white felt, too! (free)
Cost: I didn't take the time to calculate, but it must be something above 3$ for the 5 apples.

For the whole ones, I've run stitched all the part one after the other, closely enough, without gathering and I reverse it all, stuff, and ladder stitched the rest.
For the cut one, I've Overcast stitch the white fabric with red thread. Hand embroiled the seed with brown threat.

The trick to make your red ball look like an apple is to pass your needle were the 4 cuts join right through the apple and again to the 4 cut join at the bottom. You pull a little and make lots of knots, then you sew in the tail.

Felt Foods

SACK LUNCH- Peanut butter and Jelly Sandwich with a fun juice box, cookie and Cheetos chips.

TACO TIME-fun felt taco's and tortillas

FRUIT PLATE-apple, orange, banana and a watermelon slice.

FOOD FRENZY- Pizza, donuts, carrots, chips, banana, eggs, strawberries, Oreo type cookies

CHICKEN DINNER- Chicken leg, mashed potato's with gravy and carrots

Make Cut Apart Felt Food

For this project you will need:

1 sheet Sweet Potato, or orange colored felt (will make 2 carrots)

1 sheet Fresh Cut Grass or dark green felt (will make 2 carrots)

Stuffing, I used 100% wool legacy stuffing but any stuffing will do

1 6inch strip of colored hook and loop in Fresh Squeezed. (will make 2 carrots with quite a bit left over.)

Thread to match orange colored felt.

If you need help with stitches please refer to Putting it all together

Step 1 cut pieces from templates, below



Cut 1 carrot top from fresh cut grass felt.
Cut everything else from Sweet Potato color


Step 2.
Roll stem up stem piece and stitch up as shown, stitching can be done with any color thread, it won’t show.

Step 3
Cut Hook and Loop (aka Velcro) into small circles, obviously you won’t be using this color.
Step 4.
Match up rounds you have cut out, you should have two of each place scratchy side (hook) onto one of the pieces and soft side (loop) to matching piece, stitch into place as shown. Make sure the right pieces fit together, it will be hard to correct later.

Step 5. Sew up sides of rings using a running stitch as shown below, turn inside out so seam doesn’t show

Step 6.
Sew bottom to slice A, the dot represents Hook and Loop (Velcro).
Depending on how far in you made your seam on each carrot ring the bottom and top circles may need to be trimmed a bit to fit properly.

Step 7
Set up like a cup and gather stitch around and lightly stuff.

Step 8.
Place stem into carrot and pull gather stitches tightly, pass needle through the stem a few times to hold it into place, the top is done.

Step 9
Sew tops and bottoms on to remaining rings as specified above. Stick Hook and Loop (Velcro) sides together and Viola! A felt carrot!


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Felt Food

Making felt food is fun, its cheap, easy (no patterns necessary), and FAST! I love the different types of food in this picture. The pizza, sandwich, cookies, chips, fruits, veggies and more. I highly recommend trying it out. Great Christmas gift ideas.

Felt Quiet Book

This is the quiet book that I made for my nephew for Christmas. It took a long time and I made my own patterns but it turned out really cute if you ask me! My son really wanted it and wasn't to happy when I had to wrap it up and give it away! LOL I guess I will have to make him one too! Even though he already had two of his own!

The cover my mom helped with. The 1st page is Noah's Ark with a pocket inside the ark as well as the water to hold plastic animals. The 2nd page is Pets where you place the pets where they live (green part is a pocket) and Apple tree where you can pick apple from the tree and then put them in the pocket basket. 3rd page was Airplane which was a pocket with sky diver inside and Fireman with dress up gear/clothes as well as a fire truck with a latter and wheels that move. 4th page (MY FAVORITE) was Boys locker room with a dress up figure. The locker has a football outfit and basketball outfit. Along with a basketball court with balls that go throw the hoops and a changeable score board. 5th page is a Treasure Chest pocket that holds a treat to help keep the kids quiet and happy.

That's my Felt quiet book and I think it is so much fun. I have a few more ideas that I will hopefully find time to use and make more books. I also would like to start putting my patterns together so my books can be remade or reproduced. All in due time though!