Baby's First Valentine's Day Shirt
Make your holiday super special with Baby's First Valentine's Day Shirt. This Valentine's Day craft will make everyone smile. Use textile pens to color in the hearts and be sure to add some silver to each one for an unexpected touch. This is a great gift for new mommies and their recent arrivals. Valentine's Day crafts don't have to be stowed away 364 days a year. This shirt is cute enough to wear all year long. Take advantage of this cute age and dress your favorite little one up in the most adorable homemade Valentine's Day t-shirt in the world.
Primary TechniquePainting
SeasonWinter
Materials:
- White short-sleeved vest for baby 3-6 months of age
- Giotto Decor Textile pens: red; green; black; ultramarine blue; neon pink and neon yellow
- Acrilex Acrilpens: 565 Vinho (purple) and 517 Laranja (orange)
- Pilot silver marker pen
- 2” heart-shaped cookie cutter
- Pencil
- Baby shampoo
- A5 piece of left-over cardstock
- Iron and ironing board
Instructions:
- Wash the vest in baby shampoo and rinse it thoroughly in cold water. Do not add fabric softener.
- Allow the vest to dry thoroughly and iron it lightly.
- Put the vest flat on the working surface. Slide the piece of cardstock inside the vest, between the back and front sides of the vest to prevent the ink from staining the back side.
- Place the cookie cutter on the front of the vest and use the pencil to trace all around it. Repeat until you have filled the front of the vest with eight random pencil hearts.
- Start with the first heart and the neon yellow Giotto pen. Trace the outline with the pen and then color the heart with the yellow pen. Allow to dry thoroughly.
- Color the rest of the hearts, using red; green; ultramarine blue; neon pink; purple and orange for one heart each. Color the last heart with the neon yellow Giotto pen again.
- Use the black Giotto pen and the silver marker pen to add some detail to the hearts.
- Iron the design to set the inks.
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