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Fruit Prints
Decorative T-shirts from FamilyFun
With this paint-stamping activity, your child can "pear" up her favorite fruits and vegetables to produce a colorful stripe design. Or, she can turn individual prints into comical characters by drawing on stick limbs and facial features.
MATERIALS
Fruits and vegetablesKnife
Paper towels
Plastic bag
Cardboard cut to fit between the front and back of the shirt
Prewashed cotton T-shirt
Fabric paints
Plastic plates or paintbrush
Fabric markers (optional)
Slice the fruits and vegetables in half and place cut-side down on paper towels. Just about any fresh produce will do, although juicy ones, like oranges or even onions, should be allowed to dry for 15 minutes or so. Meanwhile, wrap the plastic bag around the cardboard and slip it inside the shirt.
Pour some fabric paint onto the plastic plates and have your child practice making prints by dipping the cut surface of a fruit or vegetable into the paint (or she can brush the paint onto the vegetables) and then pressing it onto newspaper. When she feels ready, she can print directly on the shirt.
Once the paint dries, remove the cardboard. Then heat-set the design and launder the shirt according to the paint manufacturer's directions.
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