Perhaps with this heat and on the weekend you have decided to stay at home, where hopefully it is cool. We want to propose an activity to do with the children at home: they will become Authentic designers and creators of their own t-shirts.
It's very simple, we just need waxes and pencil sharpeners to have a good collection of shavings, some folios or newspaper and then dad or mom will use the iron to get the final result: a nice shirt with flowers, hearts, pirates, ships, airplanes, a hand, a name ...
The first thing that the child has to do, after choosing a white and plain shirt (preferably white or clear, so that the colors look better), is to decide what drawing you will want on the shirt.
We will help you make a template with a folio, which we will then cut to "fill in" with colored shavings, or to make the background. Because we can also make the template so that the chips are negative, bordering the figure that will be white.
After sharpening the waxes that we want to use, we place a sheet inside the shirt to separate the front part from the back and the paint does not pass when heated. On the part that the child wants the drawing we will place the template and the child will fill it with colored shavings, mixed, by color in sections ...
When finished, we carefully put other folios or newspaper on top to iron: the heat of the iron causes the waxes to melt and become embedded in the shirt. Once the wax is glued, the papers must be separated carefully.
We haven't done the test yet, but the shirt designed and created with waxes by the kids They can even be washed, turning them around, they can go without problems to the washing machine. And if you don't feel like taking iron, maybe we can print the shirts with potatoes. Anyway, we hope to show you the result when we make our own shirts!
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