I’ve seen many people with a lot of crafty talent making felt play food, and I love the idea of making little treats for my kids to play with in their kitchen. Now, admittedly, I have no problem with plastic food – after all, we just got a set of 120 pieces (oy) to give Breanna from Hayley tomorrow. But my crafty nature loves the challenge of making some food too.

It was mostly for fun and for the sake of creativity. However, in the back of my mind I thought that it would be nice to have SOME damn stuff in our home that wasn’t made in China so I wouldn’t have to worry about a recall taking away a beloved toy and spending the next two decades wondering if the lead content has melted their brains.

So! While running errands this morning (between 6:30 am and 10:30 am, I got Hayley ready and dropped off at school, prepared and ate breakfast with George and Breanna, did some work, went to three stores, and came back home), I picked up a couple of packs of felt. There wasn’t much selection as far as colors go but I figured I’d start with that and if it went well – i.e., I didn’t explode in frustration – I could go to a larger store with a bigger craft section to choose some better colors.

Tonight, after I put the kids to bed, I figured I’d start with one of the easier concepts. You can’t get much simpler than a fried egg. I drew it on cardboard, cut that out, and traced it on the felt, sewed it, stuffed it, finished sewing it up, and ta-da! One easy fried egg!

I am so pleased with it, even if the stitching isn’t great. Sewing is NOT my forte, so I’m happy it came out as well as it did. And I have one whole piece of non-China play food.

And then for fun, I flipped over the package of felt to look at the back.

“Made in China.”

Sigh.