Trick or Treat Shirt

Here's a fun shirt to make for Halloween. Whether it's a T-shirt or a sweatshirt, this design is adorable and all your child's friends will want one! This simple idea is easy to put together but looks like you bought it at the store.

Materials

• Fabric paint: black, yellow, orange and white
• Cutting board, thick cardboard or cookie sheet
  
  Note: You can substitute acrylic paint and textile medium for fabric paint.
• White T-shirt
• Candy corn foam stamp or cut your own out of a sponge
• Alphabet foam stamps
• Orange 3D fabric paint
• Waxed paper

Instructions

1. Be sure that T-shirt has been washed and dried before decorating. Do not use fabric softener.
2. Place a cutting board, a thick piece of cardboard or a cookie sheet to act as a divider inside the shirt. Lay the shirt flat, then insert a sheet of waxed paper between it and the divider. This will keep any paint seepage from getting through to the other side of the shirt and will also protect your cutting board.
3. When applying paint to foam stamps, add a generous amount by dabbing paint on with a paintbrush. Don't use too much that it drips, but apply more than just a swipe.
4. Use alphabet stamps and black paint to write out the words "TRICK OR TREAT" across the front of the shirt, "TRICK" at the top left, "OR" in the middle, and "TREAT" to the lower right, using the photo as a guide.
5. Use candy corn foam stamps with white, yellow and orange paint to add the candy designs. Again, use the photo as your guide or get creative and place them wherever you like.
6. Use orange 3D fabric paint to pipe a border around each candy corn.
7. Set shirt aside in a safe place and allow to dry overnight.
8. Once completely dry, remove the cutting board and the waxed paper from inside the shirt.

Books related to our subject-- 

"This is a delightful Halloween version of "The Night Before Christmas". "'Twas Halloween night, and all through the house Every creature was stirring, including the mouse; The walls were aflutter with little brown bats, While hordes of black spiders crept out of the cracks." The digital art illustrations are vibrant, rich in colors and diverse perspectives, and filled with humorous creepy creatures and gorgeous bugs inside a spooky haunted house. In a nice twist, the scary tricksters that include a fairy blowing bubblegum are scared away by the inhabitants of the haunted house, "From the ten little tricksters came ten little shrieks, And away they all ran down the cobblestone street, Dropping their bags and spilling their treats." This wonderful picture book is a perfect read-aloud for a Halloween story time"~Reviewed by Cutler on Amazon FOR MORE INFORMATION

"My daughter loved being able to design a new Halloween costume for Nancy at the end of the book. The only down side was that you can only decorate Nancy once. I was creative though, and copied the last page so that my daughter was able to create 4 different costumes for Nancy. Then I taped the extra pages into the book. This way the book now has 4 different endings"~Reviewed by Crystal Bartley on Amazon FOR MORE INFORMATION

MY Kids Walk All Over Me

I had to laugh when I saw this craft project. How many times have we said our kids or even our pets walk all over us?  

Here's  a fun t-shirt that you can make using your kids foot prints or even the family dog or cat. It also makes a great gift idea!

 



Materials Needed:White T-Shirt
Cardboard
Fabric Paints
Paint Brush
Styrofoam Plates or Other Shallow Containers

Instructions:

• You can put fabric paint on a paper plate or in shalow dishes
• Give each child a t-shirt
• Lay the t-shirt out on a flat surface. Place a piece of cardboard inside the shirt so the paint doesn't leak through to the other side. You might want to keep a large container with warm soap water and towels near where you are making this t-shirt.
• Using a paint brush paint bottom of foot and then step onto tshirt carefully so that footprint does not smear.
• Allow to dry
• Once the footprints dry, use fabric paint and write "My Kids Walk All Over Me".

Books related to our project:

"I was hoping that this book would bring more chuckles than it does. Coming from Jeff Foxworthy one would have that expectation. It's not a book of humorous things that kids do, well, not in the laugh out loud sense, but is a collection of cute poems for kids. I still enjoyed the book, but expected more laughs."

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"This simply is one of the finest children's picture books of the year, and sure to be named on every one's Top of 2000 list. Quietly humorous and tongue-in-cheek narration, fluid and expressive black-and-white-and-red artwork, and the charming portrayal of the busy and mischievous Olivia make this an instant classic. Sight gags abound (Olivia's ambitious sandcastle, her pink-pink sunburn, her dreams of being a ballerina, and her songbook "40 Very Loud Songs") and Falconer, a New Yorker cover artist and theatre designer, portrays the never-ending energy of a tiny pig, er, girl, with wit and charm. Don't miss this one: suitable for all ages from the very young to the very old, "Olivia" is the prize of the season. It's the kind of book kids will be begging to have read to them before bed: bargaining for not once, not twice, but three times."
 
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T-Shirts For Dad

Father's Day is coming soon.It's Sunday,June 19th here in the USA. But---did you know that in other countries Father's Day falls on a different day of the year.

Here is a link so that you can see when other countries celebrate Father's Day --Father's Day All Over The World--2011.

Here is a shirt idea for your Daddy for Father's Day. I don't have a picture of the one my daughter made her Pop-Pop years ago but here is one very similiar.

Father's Day T-Shirt





Here are some more links to other great gifts for Dad's and GrandPop:

Paper Weight

Note Book For Dad

Luggage Tags

BBQ Apron

Dad's Throne

Lady Bug Tie Tack