Every year all the teachers that work in my hallway at school dress up with a theme and we have a ball doing it, one year we all dressed up as laundry baskets. Here is a visual for you... I'm an art teacher and I spend my day moving around my classroom helping children who are messy and using a variety of media. My classroom for an art room is fairly small and my tables are fairly large with relatively large classes of kids from Kindergarten to 8th grade. Needless to say there isn't a lot of room and the laundry basket just wasn't cuttin' the mustard for me. I put the costume on when each class came into my room and then quickly got out of it because it was driving me crazy. Luckily all I had to do was step out of it and remove the suspenders, The following year I decided that I needed an easier dressing up idea and came up with the idea to paint a men's long sleeved t-shirt to wear as a tunic. That year our theme was candy and I painted candy corn on my shirt. I was comfortable and received so many compliments during the day that I knew I had a hit.
I used Deco Art So Soft Paints to paint the candy corn on the front of the shirt and the pumpkins on the back . So Soft Paints are a wonderful fabric paint and really are soft when you have completed the painting. They also wash wonderfully. I also added glitter detail on each of these pieces but glitter doesn't photograph particularly well.
A few years later our hallway theme was witches and I decided to paint a huge witches face on a black shirt. This witch is not completely my own design, I knew that I had an old Diana Marcum book somewhere in my stash that had a great witches face in it and I also remembered a Holly Hanley witch design that I had somewhere and combined the two and added some of my own detail and again painted them with the Deco Art So Soft Paints.
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