DIY Play Food: Felt Christmas Cookies

Welcome to the latest addition to the DIY Play Food Series!

This time I'm back to sweets, but with a Holidays theme. Because Christmas is to be celebrated in play kitchens too, and dolls, stuffed animals and even imaginary friends are more than entitled to celebrate with season appropriate treats.

Most of us have been busy baking Christmas cookies lately, and with this tutorial you can "bake" some lovely cookies for your kids to play with too!

These cookies are very easy to make. You'll need a few felt scraps in "cookie colors", matching sewing thread, some polyester filling, and a few embellishments: buttons, glitter, bits of ribbon, whatever you have at home.

To make one cookie, cut two felt circles. Mine had a diameter of about 4 centimeters, but size really depends on you preferences; I would probably make the cookies larger for younger kids, though...

 

Sew the circles together, leaving a small opening. 

 

Fill with a bit of polyester filling. Not too much, just enough to give the cookies a realistic size. 

 

Close the opening and decorate the cookie. 

I made a whole bunch of them and decorated them in several ways, to show you different possibilities. All decorations were glued directly over the felt, with the exception of the buttons, which were sewn before joining the circles of felt together.

They look lovely in a jar (though my kids never got to play with the jar itself, the liked the realistic look of the cookies in there)...

...but I ended up placing them in a cookie bag (not appropriate for younger kids also; if you're making the cookies for a toddler and want a cookie bag, I would suggest making one out of fabric using this easy tutorial)...

...and since then they have been the highlight of many Christmas tea parties...

...and hopefully of many more to come...

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Christmas is almost here! Have a wonderful week!