Rainbow T-Shirt DIY for Kids
Rainbow T-Shirt DIY for Kids uses stamps made from found objects around the house. Easy & fun for summer or a craft project for camp or VBS.
Cost: $7
Equipment
- Items to use for stamps (i.e.- ends of pencils or markers, empty plastic thread spools, foam stamp shapes, Legos, thumbprints, lids off milk or cream cartons, etc.)
- Paint shirts or craft aprons
- Alphabet stamps to print names (optional)
Ingredients
- Craft paint in rainbow colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple)
- T-shirts in appropriate sizes- I used white but can be a pastel color as well
- Foam plate or something to put paint on while stamping
- Covering for workspace- newspaper, vinyl tablecloth, or plastic tablecloth
Instructions
- Slip a piece of carboard inside the shirt so that the paint doesn’t soak through to the back of the shirt. It's always a good idea to cover your work surface with paper or a vinyl tablecloth. Paint shirts or craft aprons are a good idea too!
- Have the kids that you will start with the largest arch of the rainbow first. It may help if you have them draw a light arch in pencil to help guide their stamping.
- Squirt some craft paint in each color onto the foam plates.
- It works best to use the largest of your stamps on the outside arch, and in our case, we used the color red.
- Then begin your second arch in a second color (we used orange) and overlap this stamp part way over the first stamp. Repeat this with the yellow, the green, the blue and the purple.
- The kids wrote their names under the rainbow when finished. This is optional of course. We used a set of about 11/2-inch foam letter stamps.