My 2 year old (almost 3!) is big for his age. He's in 5T's already and they just don't make cute holiday clothes in his size anymore! I had found a cute onesie for Sawyer for Easter and was looking for something for Riley with no luck. So I did what any self-respecting teacher would do; make it myself!! I am a HUGE fan of hand print art. I try not to save a whole ton of art from Riley's class, but anything with his hand print/fingerprints goes straight into his special box of stuff I'm keeping for him. So I browsed around the internet. At first I was specifically looking for thumbprint chicks, but found this hand print bird that I liked better. The teaching website I found it on originally made it as a bluebird. One bottle of Sunny Yellow paint later, it's a cute Easter Chick!
Step 1: Mix 2 parts acrylic paint with one part Textile medium
Step 2: paint subject's hand making sure to fill in all the chubby wrinkles :o)
Step 3: carefully print hands on shirt
Step 4: Use orange acrylic paint to create beaks and legs. Use a fabric marker to
make the eyes and wings
**Note: The bottle of textile medium says to allow the shirt to dry before heat setting for 7 days. Unfortunately we were under a time constraint and I only had 3 days for it to dry. After it dried, I laid an old towel over top and used my iron on the cotton setting to heat set the paint!
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