Sew a felt pizza with your own hands: pattern, diagrams and description

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Sometimes children are suitable not for standard or anthropomorphic dolls, but for unusual toys. If your child likes unusual things or you want to introduce him to an original approach to the game, you can make a felt pizza with him. Yes, yes, you understood everything correctly. Such a strange toy at first glance will help develop your child’s fine motor skills, “tell” him about the mechanics and sequence of cooking (perhaps after this he will even appreciate his mother’s work), and such a toy will also become part of subsequent games and allow him to “feed” the dolls. In this article we will tell you a little about the history of one of the most popular dishes in the world, and also show you how to make felt pizza with your own hands. As always, at the end of the article you will find a pattern that will help you speed up the “cooking” process.

History of pizza

The first examples of pizza that have survived to this day date back to the Neolithic period. About 7 thousand years ago, people in what is now Sardinia made flatbreads from dough and covered them with vegetables.The inhabitants of Ancient Egypt and Babylon had a similar flatbread. However, by chance, the most popular in the world became the Italian flatbread, which initially was not even flat. The history of pizza began with focaccia bread, which was baked with cheese, herbs and (sometimes) vegetables. Around 997 BC, in the port city of Gaeta, located near Naples, the name pizza was first used in a letter from one of the feudal lords, although in the document this word appears, rather, as a designation ... for paying a tax to the head of the local church. Most likely, this particular letter was not about a piece of bread with cheese and vegetables, but about an obligatory monetary (or any other) penny. Perhaps the person who wrote this was simply mistaken, because the word “pizza” comes from the name “pizzo”, which means “swallow in one bite”, and also “pizza” is consonant with the name of bread from Greece “pitta”. The concept of pizza and the most popular modern recipes were finally formed in Naples in the 17th century. Thanks to the discovery of the New World, tomatoes were brought to Europe and tomato sauce began to be actively used as an additive to cheese cake. The new combination was liked by locals and became a popular food among Neapolitans. Neapolitan pizza traveled outside the city in the 19th century, when the first Neapolitan restaurants began to open in other cities. And at the end of the 19th century, the pizza recipe became known in other European countries and even in the United States.

What you need to make a felt pizza

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• You can use bright contrasting fabrics to make the felt dish look impressive.
• Felt pieces of different colors.In order to show the difference in textures, you can take two types of felt: dense - for the cake itself, and soft and thin - for the entire filling of the toy dish.
• Scissors.
• The clipping is presented at the end of this article.
• Threads of suitable shades.
• Needle.
• Glue (optional). Instead of sewing the “ingredients” on, you can glue them.

Step-by-step plan for “cooking” felt pizza

It is best for the child to participate in making the pizza or at least be present during it. This will allow you to once again repeat the names of the ingredients with your baby and will be an occasion to tell the story of this Italian dish.

1. Cut a circle out of thick felt - it will become a flat cake.
2. Fold the ends over and seal the outer edges of the pizza.
3. Use your imagination and sew (or glue) the remaining layers of the cake so that one peeks out from under the other. This can be a red layer (tomato paste) and a yellow layer (cheese). It is best to cut each layer figuratively so that the texture of the product can be guessed.
4. Stick all layers onto the cake.
5. Now you can start with the “ingredients”, they can be absolutely anything. It is best to have more options and abandon the idea of ​​gluing these parts to the main part of the pizza, so the child can “cook” different pizzas.