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Order up! There’s nothing like a warm breakfast on a cold day - and warm, fluffy pancakes drenched in syrup and butter are irresistible. Now you can make your own felt pancakes! Kids will love pretending to flip the felt pancakes in a play pan, stacking them on a plate, and adding the delicious toppings. In this tutorial, Laura Hopper of @sonicstitches teaches you how to make play felt pancakes, syrup, and butter. The tiny short order cook in your life will adore them!
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: Two hours
Additional Supplies:
Pancake Templates (click to download)
Freezer Paper - optional
The supplies listed will make a stack of three pancakes.
Directions:
1. Print the Pancake Template above on freezer paper. Trim freezer paper so there is only a small amount of paper around the outside of each template shape. Follow instructions on the templates to know how many pieces of each template are needed.
If you do not have freezer paper, print templates on printer paper. Use a disappearing ink pen to trace shapes directly onto felt, then cut out shapes.
2. Next, using an iron on medium heat, press the templates onto felt. Cut around each template shape and gently pull off freezer paper. Do not press the stuffing pieces, those will be traced in a future step.
Pancakes
3. Pair one Pancake Accent piece with one Pancake Base piece. Clip together, centering the Accent on the Base. Stitch together using a whip stitch. Repeat to create two sides of a pancake.
4. Use wool quilt batting to stuff the pancakes. Cut two pieces of wool batting for each pancake.
If Polyfil is used, the pancake will become very round and will no longer have an accurate shape. Quilt batting helps the felt pancake stay flat.
5. Layer one pancake half right side down, then two pieces of wool quilt batting, then one more pancake half right side up, as shown below. Center wool batting on the pancake halves. There will be space around the wool to allow for stitches.
6. Clip all of the pancake layers together.
7. Sew pancake together along the Base perimeter using a blanket stitch.
Repeat these steps to make more pancakes — make a half stack or a full stack!
Syrup
8. Sew two Syrup layers together using a blanket stitch.
Butter
9. Starting in the center of one edge of the Butter Square, sew one Butter Square to Butter Side using a blanket stitch.
10. Trim end of Butter Side, if necessary. Blanket stitch the Butter Side piece closed, with 2-3 stitches.
11. Cut two pieces of wool quilt batting to fit inside butter as shown below.
12. Sew second Butter Square to other side of the Butter Side to complete butter pad.
All that’s left to do now is stack up your pancakes with the syrup and butter on top and give them to a special kid! Add a play pan to the gift so imaginative food play can start right away!
Thanks to Laura for designing and writing this tutorial! You can follow her on Instagram @sonicstitches or visit her website. Stay tuned for more tutorials!
