Wear your own art! You will need:
You’ll need to wash and dry your shirt. Place a piece of waxed paper over the cardboard and slip the covered cardboard up into the T-shirt to prevent any bleed-through while you work. Sketch your design on the shirt with chalk. Keep the design fairly simple so it will show up well when you’re finished. You might draw a sun, a fish, a house, a cat or maybe stick figures to represent your family members. With adult supervision, shake the bleach pen and give it a couple of test squeezes on a paper towel to make sure it’s flowing well. Carefully trace over your chalk lines with the bleach pen. Leave the bleach on the shirt until the fabric has clearly changed color. This can take anywhere from 15 minutes to 2 hours, depending on the shirt. Now have an adult help you remove the cardboard from inside the shirt. Set the washing machine on the smallest load possible, fill with cool water and the vinegar and wash the shirt and then dry it (don’t wash anything else with this shirt or the bleach could ruin the rest of the clothing!) There — your masterpiece is finished! Now that it’s completely dry, you can wear it. With some practice, you might be able to design a shirt where the design wraps from the back to the front! ••• Congratulations to last month's book winners! Three young readers will be reading new books this summer! Congratulations to Naomi Felio, Ruslana Boyko and Garret Watts. Stay tuned for more book drawings on future Just4Kids pages here in Rural Missouri! |
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