How to Make Felt Tacos

How to Make Felt Tacos for Pretend Play

This is a super simple tutorial that explains how to make felt tacos for your dramatic play center.

Adding something that kids can make in the dramatic play center increases engagement, opportunities for oral language development, and problem solving skills.

Easy Play Food Tacos

Supplies to Make Felt Tacos

  • Felt (red, green, yellow, orange, and beige or off white color)
  • Scissors

Customers at your pretend play taco stand can fill out the “Build Your Own Taco” order form pictured below to create tacos to their liking.

Taco Truck Dramatic Play

How to Make Felt Tacos for Dramatic Play

Start by gathering your felt. You can find sheets of felt in a wide variety of colors at your local craft store.

To make the tortillas, fold one piece of felt in half, then half again so you have a square.

Next, using your scissors, cut the open edges of the square on a curve to create a circle. Make as many tortillas you think you will need. I stored mine in a tortilla warmer I found at the dollar store.

taco truck dramatic play
Then, cut your felt to create the taco toppings. You can cut the green felt into strips to represent shredded lettuce. The orange and yellow felt can be cut into strips to represent the cheese. You can cut the red felt into small squares to represent tomatoes. Use other colors of felt and shapes to represent different taco toppings.

Finally, start building your delicious tacos!

how to make felt tacos for pretend play

Taco Truck Dramatic Play Kit

Taco Truck Dramatic Play Printables for Preschool
These super easy felt tacos are perfect for the taco truck theme in your dramatic play center!

2 thoughts on “How to Make Felt Tacos”

  1. I know what I will be working on this weekend, making all the great felt items. Open day of our restaurant will be Monday! Just purchased the Mexican Restaurant dramatic play.

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