Lovely shopping bags decorated with pastel dye sticks
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Children can decorate these shopping bags beautifully with simple shapes, such as squares, triangles and circles. The combination of fabric paint and pastel dye sticks provides a lovely result and the children get a chance to work with different techniques. Find inspiration here!
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How to do it: Place a piece of plastic inside the shopping bag to avoid smudging onto the back.
2 Outline the owl with a black fabric marker. Use simple geometric shapes: triangles, squares and circles.
3 Decorate the owl's body, beak and feet with fabric dye sticks.
4 Paint tufts on the head and stripes on the body using PRIMO textile paint in contrasting colours. Leave to dry.
5 Fix the paint with an iron (on a medium setting) for 5 minutes. Put a piece of baking paper between the fabric and the iron.
6 You can now wash the shopping bag at 30-40°C.
A tip You may wash the shopping bag prior to decorating to give a completely clean surface, ensuring that the shopping bag takes the colour well. You may make other simple designs using the same shapes: animals, people, flowers etc. The geometric shapes make it easy for young children.
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