I love winter time, especially when it's snowing. If it's going to be grey outside, then the ground had better glow! Gives you a chance to get some reading done, do a project, or snowball fights! Soon a lot of children will be off school for winter break. This is a fun (and inexpensive) project that you can do with your little one!
My son loves cartoons and we decided on Pikachu. If you have a plain shirt or hoodie already then you're one step ahead of us! I purchased a plain yellow shirt for about $4, picked up some tan, red, white, and black felt from the hobby store, a fabric glue stick, and I already had some black thread and a needle and scissors. So total cost was under $10.00.
First, I washed the shirt and felt to make sure that they wouldn't warp once placed on the shirt. Second, I went on the Internet to find a good picture to eyeball the shapes I would need to cut out of the felt. Most cartoons have simple lines to their faces so picking out the basic shapes that make up the eyes, nose, etc should be easy. If you have fabric chalk and trust your young one with scissors, trace out the shapes for them then let them cut them out. Before using the glue stick, place all the shapes on the shirt and make sure they are spaced well. Then hand over the glue stick and start stickin'! Let the glue dry for about 20 minutes or so then take your black thread and a needle and make some stitches all around all the glued pieces to make sure the parts don't come off in the wash. This is the only boring part of the project, mom. But it's not so bad. I was watching Indiana Jones Last Crusade and it took me from them starting the fire in the castle and hiding in the fire place to dropping the Holy Grail down the fissure and the blond going down with it.
I would either put this shirt in a pillow case when you wash, use the delicate cycle, or even better BOTH! Don't want to loose a cartoon eye!
Have fun!!
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