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    These photos will show you step by step how to make a felt cookie, and then show you other felt food options. For instructions you can print out, click on the link to the story below.

    SUPPLIES
    • Scissors
    • Cream felt
    • Pink felt
    • Cream thread
    • Pink thread
    • Needle
    • Stuffing

    DIRECTIONS
    1. Cut out two cream felt circles 2.5 inches wide. Cut out one pink felt circle 2 inches wide, scalloping the edges.

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    2. Attaching the icing: Pull out an arm's length of pink thread. Thread the needle, and double up the thread so it is two strands thick. Tie a knot at the end of the two strands. Starting on the underside, bring the needle up through the top layer of cookie felt and the pink icing felt. Bring the needle back down through the cookie felt, and continue on with this whipstitch. When you reach the beginning point, tie off the thread under the cream felt so the knot is not visible.

    3. Attaching the two cookie layers: Thread the needle in the same manner with cream thread. Insert the needle between the two cream felt layers, and bring it up through the top layer, so the knot is hidden inside. You can use the same whipstitch to sew up the cookie. For those who know how to do a blanket stitch, that will give the cookie a more finished look. Continue stitching until you are about 2 inches from the starting point, and stop.

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    4. Fill the cookie with stuffing.
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    5. Then continue stitching to close up the hole. Tie off the thread with a knot and put the needle into the middle of the cookie to tuck the knot inside. Bring the needle back out of the cookie as any spot. Cut the string close so it will tuck back inside the cookie.
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    6. You're done! Adapt details to make cookies of various shapes and toppings. Brown felt cut into bits could be sewn on as chocolate chips. Beads (for older children) or knots could be added as sprinkles.
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    Deena Niemat and her 2-year-old daughter, Cyra, play with food made of cloth at their home in Nashville, Tenn.
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    Deena and Cyra set a table using the cloth play food. Deena made the food items and has a play refrigerator made of wood so her daughter will avoid contact with plastics.
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    Deena says it's satisfying to whip up a fabric carrot in 15 minutes or a milk carton in about an hour, then watch her daughter play with them.
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    Cyra gets play food from her play refrigerator.
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    Deena has made her daughter many different pieces of food. "It's really just a night sitting in front of the TV sewing. It's not like you have to set aside hard-core work time," she said.
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    Rebecca Haacke started making play food out of felt for her children because she was tired of cleaning out their toy box during recalls of lead-contaminated toys.
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    Haacke first made a whole stuffed apple, then sewed a ham sandwich with a felt lunch sack. She is one of a number of mothers who, worried about plastic toys' safety and environmental impact, have created interest in homemade play food.