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Everyone
loves to dress up for Halloween, but what about the weeks
leading up to Halloween night? It's
nice to show your Halloween spirit by wearing Halloween
themed shirts all month long! These shirts are an easy,
inexpensive way to dress up and show your Halloween spirit.
Using inexpensive long or short sleeved t-shirts found at
craft stores and mass retailers, some fabric paint and
scissors you can makes these in a day.
These cut-out
shirts are easy to make, don't take much time and look nice. With a little fabric paint embellishment, you can make them your own
style!
What You Need:
Two contrasting t-shirts
Fabric Paint
Scissors
Poster Board or Cardboard
Pencil or Pen
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You need two shirts of different colors for each
of these projects. We used one black and one
orange for the Jack-O-Lantern shirt and one
black and one white for the Spider Web shirt. We've discovered that if you outline
the cut outs on the t-shirt the fabric is less likely to
curl at the edges. You'll need the shirts,
squeezable fabric paint in a variety of colors, a white chalk pencil (washable) and a pair of scissors
for this project. You'll also need a large sheet of
poster board to slip inside the shirt so the paint doesn't
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Jack-O-Lantern:
Set aside the black shirt, you won't be doing anything
but wearing this one. On the orange shirt, mark out a
Jack-O-Lantern face. Go over the design with glossy
fabric paint in a squeeze tube. We discovered that
doing so helps to keep the edges of the fabric
from curling once it is cut. T-shirt material
has a tendency to roll when cut, which would
make the mouth look like a curled grin instead
of a Jack-O-Lantern mouth. You can find long
sleeve Tee's at craft stores. |
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We used "Glow-In-The-Dark Glowing Orange" fabric
paint to outline our Jack-O-Lantern face. Place
a piece of poster board or cardboard inside the
shirt before you add the fabric paint or the
layers of the shirt will stick together. When
the fabric paint has dried, cut out the pieces
inside of the paint line. Wear this shirt over
the top of the black shirt and you have a simple
but great looking Halloween Jack-O-Lantern shirt.
You can use one long and one short sleeved shirt
or both short sleeved. It depends on your own
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Spider
Web:
This one is a bit more intricate. You can use either a
white or black shirt as the cut-out shirt. We used the
black to cut the web and the white for the bottom shirt.
It gave the spider web a more defined look this
way. Lay the shirt out on a flat surface and draw a spider
web pattern on it, leaving the web pieces about a
half an inch wide. Place poster board or card board
inside shirt before you add the fabric paint or
the shirt will stick together. Use a glowing white or
glow-in-the-dark squeeze fabric paint to trace the
lines of your pattern. When dry, cut out the areas
inside the
web lines. |
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We used Velcro dots to stick a Tarantula to our
shirt for that extra kick! We used fabric glue
to glue the dots to the shirt and silicon glue
to glue them to the spider. You could also add
some small plastic flies to the web, using
fabric glue and run some small spiders down the
arms or over the web as well. Needless to say,
you'll have to wash this shirt by hand to clean
it. We hope
you enjoy these inexpensive and easy ways to
dress yourself up for the Halloween season! Not
quite costumes, you can wear them anywhere
before Halloween. |
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