Potatoes and Tomatoes

Since my grandnieces like balls so much I wanted to make them another type of food that they could also use as balls for their birthday. After thinking about strawberries for a bit I realized that tomatoes were a better option. I found a felt tomato pattern that used 4 pointy egg shape pieces. My first attempt came out looking more square than round but adding another section solved that problem. I made them three tomatoes each and also made some produce baskets out of stiffened green felt.

Recently my youngest granddaughter wanted to show off her clean play kitchen area and when I went to check it out I was pleased to see the needlefelted potatoes I had made them after seeing some similar ones at the children’s area of the Swedish museum.

I had this little paper bag with the see through window which reminded me of a potato bag so I had searched online and printed some potato bag images to add. They’ve held up better than I thought they would!