FK features handmade, high quality felt food perfect for play kitchens! Created with durability in mind, I use eco-felt, an environmentally friendly choice. Eco-Felt is made from recycled post-consumer plastic bottles.
Machine and handstitching create durable, adorable products for kid kitchens. Items are often double layered or double stitched to improve durability.
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BLOG: http://feltfoodkids.blogspot.com/
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The Woman Behind FFK:
Hi! My name is Amy and I'm the mommy behind Felt Food Kids. My two year old daughter Grace is the driving force behind all that I do. The slogan for my shop is Where Fun Meets Felt & it is so fitting! I really do want my food to provide hours of fun for kids. As I add to my daughter's kitchen & pantry, I hope to add to other children's kitchens along the way.
Designing felt food is the hardest part. Once I've perfected my pattern, sewing items over & over may take patience and attention to detail but at least I'm past making prototype after prototype.
Before becoming a stay at home mom, I was a school psychologist, working mainly with kids aged 3 to 9. That experience helped shape my understanding of the importance of play--pretending is important! While Grace helps me in the kitchen with nearly every meal (we are total foodies here!), her time with her felt food is equally if not more important. I hope the toys I create inspire kids to play, play, play!
My Mission for My Products:
1. Quality & Durability: if it isn't going to last--why am I making it? Grace is an excellent tester of my prototypes. I try to use double layers of felt when possible because I want my felt food to last. I double stitch items or hand stitch certain features, too, for the same reason.
2. Encourage Imaginary Play--HOURS of it: I want my food to inspire kids to play all day long. While some of Grace's creations may not appear that appetizing in real life, I love that she's a risk taker in her felt food filled kitchen! A lot of my food can also be used to play garden and I'm always amazed at the ideas Grace has for the food. For example, did you know a slice of bacon can also be a knife? lol!
3. Adorable & Representative: I want my creations to be cute as can be & to look like the foods they are supposed to be. Most foods are real life sized & all are adorable!
4. Affordable: There's a balance I'm walking when I create felt food. I try to include enough details that the item looks realistic but not so many details that I'd have to charge too much to cover the hours spent making it. Sometimes I have to remind myself I am creating toys not art! :)
5. Versatile/Kid Friendly: I avoid using beads & glue whenever possible--they just aren't kid friendly materials. When creating, I want the food to work well together & be versatile. The bacon can work with any other breakfast item or toss it on some bread with lettuce & tomato & you have a BLT in no time! I use velcro on things like tacos to help hold ingredients together (plus, Grace gets angry if her taco doesn't stay shut after she's created it!).