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I collected 25 free felt food patterns and tutorials for you because I believe in the power of imaginative play. These are the best felt food pattern ideas out there, and I want to inspire you to create your DIY felt food for your kids. Pretend play is a crucial part of childhood development, and what better way to encourage it than with handmade felt food? With these felt food templates, you can make your play food items that are not only adorable but also safe for your little ones to play with. So why not get creative and make a batch of felt strawberries, a sandwich, or even a slice of pizza? It will be a fun project for you, and make a beautiful handmade gift for your kids that they can enjoy for hours of imaginative play.

Let's get felt crafting and bring some joy to playtime! 

Felt Crafting Tips for DIY Felt Food

Before starting with the felt food crafts, you might want to go through these felt crafting tips. They help to make your felt cutting easier, teach you what glue to use for felt, and how to sew felt. With these tips in mind, you'll be ready to tackle your DIY Felt Food with ease.

TIP for sewing with felt: Explore the felt sewing tips to help you while sewing felt. You get to know what types of felt exist, what’s the best needle and thread for felt, how to trace on felt, and how to cut felt shapes.

TIP basic embroidery stitches: You can read the guide on nine basic embroidery stitches for felt if you want to know how to stitch French knot, running stitch, backstitch, or whip stitch.

TIP felt glue: Have you wondered what is the best felt glue? Find the findings of a test comparing 8 different glues for felt.

TIP felt scissors: Are you curious about what scissors to use for felt? Learn the secrets of the best scissors for cutting perfect felt shapes in Felt cutting made easy.

TIP for cutting felt: If you would like to learn tips on cutting out felt pieces, you can read my post about 6 techniques for cutting felt shapes.

Popular Free Felt Food Patterns

Enjoy my selection of felt play food patterns and make play food for kids. You can learn how to make various felt food projects, from fruits and vegetables to sweets and snacks, with the free tutorials. Who doesn’t love the idea of creating their own felt pizza, cupcakes, or sandwiches? 

1. DIY Felt Food Breakfast

Follow the easy felt food breakfast tutorial from Seam Whisperer and sew breakfast felt food, namely felt bacon, felt fried egg, and felt avocado. I like this pattern for its simplicity. This breakfast is going to be delicious. 

2. Free Pizza Felt Board

Preparing pizza with the DIY felt pizza flannel board is a fun way to play. This is one of my free food patterns. It's great for preschool kids, but even adults can join in on the fun. Kids can create their own pizza designs with the felt pieces and have hours of creative playtime.

3. Felt Avocado Plushie with Free Pattern

The next on the list are these cute felt avocado plushies from Easy Things to Sew. They will be lovely in the play kitchen or as ornaments to hang. Follow the detailed hand sewing tutorial and sew these felt avocadoes.

4. DIY Felt Fortune Cookies

This felt project is so much fun! Follow the easy tutorial and craft DIY felt fortune cookies from Creatively Beth. Include your fortune sayings or use Beth's cookie Valentine sayings.

5. Felt Cupcake Softie with Free Pattern

Get inspired and sew this easy hand sewing felt food cupcake project. The adorable felt cupcake plushie with a cherry finish is fun to make. If you prefer, you can make the cupcake smaller to fit your other pretend food or bigger to make a pillow.

6. DIY Felt Vegetable and Felt Market Bag

I love this free felt food pattern! You learn how to hand sew felt beets, carrots, and strawberries. The tutorial includes instructions on how to make a felt market bag. This is perfect for "going on a market shopping" play.

7. Felt Popsicle Keychain

The Felt Popsicle Keychain is a delightful summer DIY project that is simple for anyone to create! With just 30 minutes, you can craft your own felt plush popsicle keychain using the printable free pattern. 

8. DIY Felt Food Popsicles

The next free felt food pattern brings summer. Following the tutorial, you can sew felt popsicles. They will be a great addition to the play kitchen with their lovely bright colors. They remind me of the ice cream we ate in Mexico.

9. Plush Pancakes Tutorial

Learn how to make felt hotcakes and pancakes. You can make this squishy stack of pancakes for breakfast. It's an easy felt project for beginners with embroidery and simple needle-felted slices of butter.

10. Free Felt Peach Slice Pattern

The next pattern I share is excellent for play kitchens. You can sew felt peach slices with the free pattern from The Yellow Birdhouse. They can become part of the felt fruit collection for imaginary and pretend play.

11. Felt Blueberries and Pancakes

Follow the tutorial from Burnt Muffin and learn how to make felt blueberries and pancakes. Hmm, so tasty! You can make other toppings as well, following the tutorials in this collection.

12. Felt Pizza with Shapes and Colors

This is a bit of a different pattern in the collection that helps kids learn the 2D shapes and colors. The felt pizza shape activity is a fun game for little cooks. This activity uses circles to make the pizza base and then available shapes to add toppings. It encourages creativity and imagination while learning many other concepts.

13. DIY Felt Lemon 

My kids love lemons. It's something they got from the Argentinian part of the family. Lemon with rice, lemon with schnitzel, lemonade and more. In their play kitchen, felt lemons and limes cannot be missed. For this, there is a free felt lemon and lime pattern from The Yellow Birdhouse. They look quite real. I'm running to make some lemonade. 

14. Felt Pasta Dinner Free Pattern

What about cooking a delicious dinner with felt in the play kitchen? Follow the detailed tutorial at Benzie Design and sew a felt pasta dinner with tagliatelle, tomatoes, meatballs, and basil. 

15. Kawaii Fortune Cookie

If you would like to make a keepsake for Valentine's and other occasions, you can sew an adorable felt fortune cookie from Creatively Beth. This easy project is hand sewn and stuffed with filling.

16. Felt Biscuits Pattern

We have a huge tradition of Christmas Cookies in the Czech Republic. Many families bake their sweet cookies. The Linzer cookies, as we call them, are my favorites. Laura from Bugs and Fishes brings a tutorial that teaches you how to make a felt version of these jam-filled biscuits. There are two versions available, one is a star and one with a circle. They are also excellent for tea parties pretend play.

17. Felt Donuts with Free Pattern

Easy tutorial to sew delicious felt donuts. Molly and Mama shares this free food pattern and detailed tutorial so that you can also enjoy this delicious treat.

18. Felt Peach Keyring

Mollie from Wild Olive shows you how to make a cute felt peach keyring. It's an easy felt food craft you can sew.

19. DIY Felt Candy Ornaments and Decorations

Are you preparing a felt candy party? The tutorials for candy decorations are simple to follow, and the end result is super cute. With four different kinds of candy ornaments to choose from, there is something for everyone's taste.

20. Watermelon Pillow DIY

This watermelon pillow felt project is enjoyable and easy to stitch, making it perfect for vacation crafting. Because it is hand-sewn, you only need a needle, thread, felt, and stuffing. My family loves watermelons, so I imagine this pattern will be high on the next projects to sew list.

21. Felt Strawberries and Cream

With this sewing project, you can make adorable felt strawberries. They're perfect for the play kitchens. You can convert the strawberries into keychains or charms. It's a great little gift for kids to make!

22. Felt Sandwich Pattern

You shouldn't miss this felt sandwich pattern from One Creative Mommy. The pattern offers various toppings such as turkey, ham, veggies, cheese, peanut butter, jelly, mayo, and mustard. With so many toppings, you can make quite some sandwich combinations.

23. Felt Donut Tutorial

This tutorial guides you with steps on how to make felt donuts. It shows you how to make sprinkles and icing. Felt donuts are always popular among kids. My kids love these sweet treats.

24. Felt Pancakes and French Toast

My son loves pancakes, so I'm happy I could include felt pancakes and felt French toast patterns in this collection. Both patterns are a great starter project for a beginner in creating felt food. 

25. Salty Pretzel, Corn Dog, and Popcorn Tutorial

If you would like to make your movie food set from felt, visit the easy-to-follow tutorial from A Beautiful Mess. You can make felt popcorn, a corn dog, and a salty pretzel. There is no actual pattern, but the instructions are straightforward.

26. Sweet Sugar Cookie Kids Costume

A bonus free felt food pattern is this sweet sugar cookie costume. It's a simple costume to make for any occasion. It would be lots of fun to have one for a candy party.

Conclusions Free Felt Food Patterns

 In conclusion, I hope you enjoyed this collection of 25 free felt food patterns and tutorials. Whether you are looking to create some adorable felt food toys for kids, or simply want to try your hand at some quick and easy felt sewing projects, these do-it-yourself tutorials provide the perfect starting point. Felt food has become a popular choice for kids' pretend play as it is safe, durable, and incredibly cute. These patterns offer various options, from fruits and vegetables to sweet treats and savory dishes. The step-by-step instructions make it easy for both beginners and experienced crafters to create their own felt food masterpieces.

If you want more inspiration for your Felt food crafting, head over to my Pinterest Felt Food Patterns Board!

Be sure to visit this website for more embroidery and sewing tips and tricks to help you out as you stitch my patterns. For free felt patterns, visit my Freebies page.

Let’s craft together!

XO, Anna