m&m Shirts

Renee, Debbie, Karly, Elizabeth, Kayla

The school I teach at does an Awareness Week each year.  This year funds were raised for St. Judes Children's Hospital, which is pretty cool.  During Awareness Week we have spirit days.  Like homecoming or prom week it gives a fun excuse to dress up and be silly.  Spirit days can be nutty, but hey, who doesn't like a little bit of fun?  One of the days was "Character Day."  I was all for making CareBear shirts...but the rest of the gang didn't go for that!  I was thinking we could get a ton of felt and go to town making the CareBear stomachs...plus we could do the "CareBear Stare" to students.  Except my idea of the "stare" is more like the stink eye, so that might not have worked so well!

 We also considered buying the Sesame Street shirts, but at 20 bucks a pop we had to rule that one out!

(We wouldn't have had our names on them...this picture just shows the different ones available!)

In the end we decided to be m&m's and we were able to make our own shirts!  We picked up different colored t-shirts at Michael's ($3.99 regularly...but I had a 45% off coupon so it was only $2.30 with tax!), along with Tulip Fabric Spray Paint.

Then we made an "m" stencil using the school library's Cricut cutter!  We used freezer paper for the stencil, which can be ironed onto fabric.  Then we just had to spray on our paint, peel off the stencil, and wait for the paint to dry!  You can also use regular fabric paint with a roller paint brush, however the spray paint was perfect for our shirts as it looked most like an actual m&m candy!

For a more thorough tutorial, with step by step pictures, see Tangled & True's post on personalized shirts.  This is how we made our shirts, with a few tweeks!