For our big Thanksgiving craft this year, we made handprint T-shirts! These are for the kids and it is their sweet little handprints! Each year, we try to make something memorable. I love my kids’ handprints! They are so sweet and special! As a side note, for a few years, we had stocking that we would trace the next year’s hand print on until it was full! I loved this and so I wanted to do something with handprints for Thanksgiving this year! And the results are awesome! I love them, they love them and they were quite affordable to make! First, the supplies are quite simple. T-shirts (old or new) and fabric paint. 
We bought everything new at Hobby Lobby. The T-shirts are normally $3.49, but were on sale for $2.50 each (4 for $10). I needed 5, and so this cost me $12.50. Then we bought 6 fabric paints (brown, blue, orange, red, yellow, green) at .99 each = $5.94. I already had the foam brushes as we stocked up a while back at .08 each. But I keep reusing these for other projects, so it wasn’t an extra expense. For $18.44, we made 5 brand new cute Thanksgiving t-shirts! This was only $3.69 each new! Here’s how we made it: 
- Get your paints and foam brushes ready.
- Get your t-shirts ready by pre-washing if not pre-washed and pre-shrunk. Then place a cardboard backing in between the shirt layers for a nice flat surface and to keep paint bleeding to the backside.
- With your kids’ clean hands, “paint” their hands in the colors you want. For the turkey, paint the palm and thumb brown and then a variety of colors for the 4 remaining fingers.
- Press their hand down and then pull their hand off!
- I also then filled in any missing holes and spots with the foam brush.
- Let dry on the cardboard.
- Once they dry, go back and add the beak, eyes, hanging down thingy and legs. I cannot paint if my life depended upon it and ironically, I painted those finishing touches, but it seriously looks like the kids did it. So…. if I can do it, then you most certainly can 🙂
- Then it is ready to wear and enjoy!
Five fun, festive, memorable Thanksgiving T-Shirts for $18.44 from start to finish! After Thanksgiving, I will wash them and then stick them in their memory bins with all of their past Thanksgiving crafts!
What ideas for kids have you done!
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dorislian
such a good and easy ideas which make the kids more fashion,a little sparkle make everything look better,you can also try iron a rhinestone item such as letters, artworks,photos on t shirts,which will show your style and personality.