C is for Campfire

Materials:

• Black background (duck canvas 10.5"x12")
• Red, orange, yellow, brown, and white felt scraps
• Green felt
• 2 Popsicle sticks
• White embroidery thread
• Iron-on letter "C"

The original design

 This page is a "use your imagination" page.  The child pretends to cook his/her marshmallow over the campfire using the (popsicle) stick, and then can use the "graham crackers" and "chocolate" to create their own s'mores to "eat."  The green grass doubles as a pocket to store the pieces.

I first created a pattern for the flames of the fire.  I cut out the red felt, cut the pattern to the orange size, cut out the orange felt, cut the pattern to the yellow size, and cut out the yellow felt.

 I then created a quick pattern for a couple of logs to go under the fire and cut that out of the brown felt.

I sewed on the logs, followed by the red fire, orange fire, and last yellow fire.  **Note, I probably would have sewn on the green grass background first had it been in the original plans, but that came later since I decided to add it after seeing that the fire looked like it was floating in the night air.

The fun part was sewing the pieces for the s'mores.  I made two marshmallows.  I originally was going to make button holes in the marshmallows to fit the stick through, but decided to sew two marshmallow-shaped pieces together and leave an opening for the stick to slide into.  I think it turned out pretty well!

The crackers and chocolate were simply two squares sewn together all the way around, and then I added a seam down the middle for decoration or added authenticity.  I made 4 crackers and 2 chocolates.

I added the background grass, and then another layer of grass to be the pocket that holds all of the pieces.  I thought things would stay in better if I created a few separate pockets, so I stitched a few seams down to make three pockets.

 Last, as always, I added the iron-on letter "C" and hand stitched "ampfire" with white embroidery thread using the chain stitch.  To finish, I stitched around the C, just for good measure.

Here is the finished product:  C is for Campfire.  Bon Appetit!