what to do, what to do this month - there are so many fun ideas to try! i bought 2 black tshirts on sale from walmart when it was no-tax day and have been saving them for this month...but i couldn't figure out what we were going to do with them! until, i came across a fun handprint monster idea on pinterest: monster handprint canvases! btw, did i mention i'm on pinterest - i'm joining the cyber world one social media experience at a time....slowly....!
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don't you just love those sweet, smiling monster faces?! scary, huh? those are their mad monster faces - they are very good at them - whether wearing monster shirts or not. ;)
so, wha-bam! this month's kiddo craft is: monster handprint t-shirts! maybe your kids will jump for joy over them too?!
we could have made ghosts, like last year (ghost footprints), for their shirts, and i've also seen handprint bats...but i wanted something with COLOR against that blackness!
so, i prewashed the shirts and placed a piece of cardboard inside (to prevent the paint or glue from seeping through). then, i squirted the fabric paint on my kiddo's hand and only painted the areas where i wanted my monster (whether 3 arms or two legs...). give it as much paint as you can so it'll be dark!
we pressed them on to the shirts and let them dry.
after they were dry, i went around the painted hands with dimensional fabric paint for the extra pop (see above - before (left), after (right)). then the girls helped me pick out the number and size of googly eyes for each of their monsters. and i used aleene's craft glue (which states on the bottle that it's not meant for washing - but i bet there's something out there for it...but i just used what i had and plan to delicate cycle wash them inside-out.)
i thought about trying invisible thread and sewing around/over the eyes, but my mother has those sorts of things in her supply basket, not me.
then i added some extra cuteness with the dimensional fabric paint and added mouths, teeth, eyelashes, feet, and horns. cute, huh? i mean, how many times are they going to wear this shirt (in october) anyways?! at least once a week...and then, maybe i can make them into pillows?
don't you just love those sweet, smiling monster faces?! scary, huh? those are their mad monster faces - they are very good at them - whether wearing monster shirts or not. ;)