Our family, like most families in the U.S., is getting ready to celebrate the 4th of July holiday tomorrow. Â We have stocked up on some yummy food for the grill, some craft materials, and fireworks (of course!)
Today, we worked on our 4th of July shirts.  I love Pinterest and came across an age-friendly shirt idea (my girls are currently 3.5, 5, and a newly minted 8) that we drew inspiration from when creating our shirts today.  That pin took me to the original posting of this eraser stamped shirt on cutesycrafts.  The picture below is the original shirt.
Supplies needed in the making of this shirt are: (1) a plain colored shirt of your choosing, (2) freezer paper to cut or x-acto knife your star design, (3) a warm iron and ironing surface, (4) fabric paint (or in our case we made do with puffy paint, which was a bit stickier when removing our templates and also gave us a thicker puffier stamp), (5) pencils with clean, preferable un-used eraser tips (even though clean used ones will do in a pinch if they are still fairly flat to give you a good stamp)
Easy peasy–you trace a star on the plain side of the freezer paper, cut it (or x-acto it) out, and iron the wax side of the freezer paper on to the shirt.  Just a light iron–no need to meld it forever 😉 Place a piece of freezer paper inside the shirt or anything you don’t mind getting possible paint bled thru on.  Dip pencil erasers in the red and/or blue paint (ideally you want to designate one pencil eraser for red and one for pencil erasers for blue.  Even more if you have multiple kiddos like me working on the project) making sure to fully dot the star outline before adding more dots outwards like pictured in the above cutesycrafts photo.
My crafting crew:
So this is what my crafty crew came up with after a brief verbal instruction with the youngest receiving the most mommy help. Â For reference: Â DD3 is 3.5 years old, DD2 is turning 6 this month, and DD1 just turned 8 last month.
Being the perfectly imperfect parent and crafter that I am–I realized we would need more red paint a little too late and I was not stopping mid-crafting to go to the store. Â So the red puffy container was cut in order to squeeze out the remaining red that gets stuck in the container. Â Craft saved.
Tomorrow, we will be grilling hot dogs, corn, and making campfire smores! Â I’m excited to try any spin on smores. Â Love Smores–So yummy! . Â I will also be trying my hand at doing a star hair-do style on one of the girls if not all three.
Pins for the following: (1) inspiration 4th of July shirts from cutesycrafts, (2) campfire smores, and (3) girls star hair-dos that we will be doing tomorrow can be found on my new pinterest page at: https://www.pinterest.com/JustOrdChaos/4th-of-july-fun/