Help with ideas for making fun tshirts with preschoolers?

Question

I would like tons of ideas - anything! Our homeschool co-op has 7 kids from ages 3 to 5. We are having an end of the year party and I bought t-shirts, paints & fabric markers for making fun tshirts together. I would like some ideas for something that the kids can do to make the tshirts special. I would love to do some sort of design where they can all contribute something. I have some tshirt transfers that I could use, but my color printing doesn't work very well so I can't do their pictures or something with color. A cute poem with them writing their names maybe? Something with handprints? Help, please!!!

Answer 1

I used to teach kindergarten and once we made T's using fabric paint and finger prints. Put a piece of cardboard under shirt so paint doesn't soak thru. The children put one finger print on each shirt all in same area. With a fabric pen draw lines from the prints so that it looks like a bunch of balloons. Each shirt will have all the prints on it and you could write (small) each name under their print(balloon).

Using shaped sponges dipped in paint is another good idea.

Answer 2

I love this stuff so I hope what I have done helps you a little.

Fabric paint- different shaped sponges

Puffy paint

Show them how to draw a simple dog or cat and let them do that

Along the bottom you adults should use the Fabric paint markers to put your Co-op name, year etc. on the shirt, and maybe on the back of the shirt near the neck you could draw a simple guardian angel.

That way they will all be unified and unique at the same time.

Good luck and have fun, don't forget you can look up this stuff on google for some great ideas, I go for the simple stuff.

Answer 3

Fingerprints & Handprints

Fingerprints

My dirty little fingerprints
I've left on every wall,
And on the drawers and table tops,
I've really marked them all.
But here is one that won't rub off,
I'm giving it to you,
Because I'm thankful for a (mother or father) just like you!



Fingerprints

Sometimes you get discouraged
Because I am so small,
And always leave my fingerprints
On furniture and walls.
But everyday I am growing,
-I'll be grown up someday,
And all these tiny handprints
Will simply fade away.
So here's a final handprint
Just so you can recall,
Exactly how my fingers looked
When I was very small.
I love you!



A Reminder

This is to remind you
When I have grown so tall,
That once I was quite little
And my hands were very small.



Handprint

Here is my hand
So tiny, so small
to hang somewhere
upon your wall.



This is my hand.
My hand will do
A 1000 loving things for you
And you will remember
When I am tall...
That once my hand
Was just this small.



This is the hand
You used to hold
When I was only
__ years old.



My Hand

I give my hand
to you this day!
Remember me now,
as I grow and play!



I used my thumb and fingers too
To make this flower just for you.
It doesn't smell, it doesn't grow.
It's from me to let you know;
Love you (Mom or Dad)?
Love you not?
Love you, (Mom or Dad)!
Love you a lot!



Tiny Handprints

Tiny handprints grow so fast
Their awkward groping soon will clasp
A ball, a book, a sweetheart's hand
A diploma, breifcase, wedding band.

Tiny handprints grow so strong
It doesn't take them very long
To snap a shirt, to paint, to draw
To labor hard, to drive a car.

Tiny handprints grow to be
A person that is quite unique
A wonderful mix of so many things
With his own feelings, thoughts and dreams...

Meredith Harris



Here my handprints are done
For everyone to view
I had so much fun
Doing this for you.

So look upon this handprint plaque
Hanging on your wall,
And memories will come back
Of me when I was small.

(Student's name and date)



A piece of me
I give to you.
I painted this flower
To say "I love you."

The heart is you.
The hand is me.
To show we are friends--
the best there can be.

I hope you will save it
And look back someday
At the flower we shared
On your special day.

Kathleen Lademan
www.CanTeach.ca

Answer 4

If you don't have a printer who workes, at
the store Michaels they have tshirts transfer paper which you not only can use for the printer, the kids can also draw with regular crayons on it, and than it just needs to get ironed on.

Answer 5

What about their little foot prints at the back of the T.shirt and their hand prints on the front. Inside the back (where the label is) have them write their names.

Answer 6

the kids should deffinitley have creative freedom you could even make tye-dieing an option, super funnnn just like superman on a golf coarse when he eats his bologna sandwich!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!