Sometimes painting a shirt is, well, repeative. I like mixing it up a bit with a fun thing called Bleach Shirt Stencils! You can have your kids help to, but I advise you handle the bleach bit.

Items Needed:

Dark T-shirt
Gloves
Safety goggles
Ventilators
Bleach
Preval Sprayer
Piece of cardboard
Pen or pencil
Marker
Paper
Scissors
Sink
Water
Spray-adhesive tack (optional)

What to do:

1. Prepare.
   Put on gloves and safety goggles. Mix up a batch of 50/50 bleach to water solution in you Preval reservoir. Attach to power unit. Label it, and draw a skull and crossbones on the bottle so nobody mistakenly thinks it contains water. Then put a piece of cardboard inside the shirt so the bleach doesn’t bleed through.
2. Design.
   Have your kisd draw their own stencil design on paper and cut it out. Just remember that it’s going to be a stencil, so it should be designed so it can be filled in with color (or bleach). Bleach can bleed into the shirt, so keep it simple and be bold. When they’re done, place their designs on the shirt. I put some spray-adhesive tack on the back of the stencil so it would stick to the shirt a bit.
3. Bleach.
     Using your Preval sprayer, spray the bleach solution over the stencil. Watch the color disappear before your eyes.
4. Rinse.
   If you leave the bleach on too long, it’ll make the fabric disintegrate, so when it’s getting close to the right color, dunk the shirt in a sink full of water and rinse until it doesn’t smell like bleach. Dry it out, and you’re good to go — your T-shirt design is done!

It's a pretty quick and easy project. Easy clean up and something different to do with the kids. :o) Make sure, if you do this with your kids that you all protect yourselves with ventilators and goggles too!

Your Favorite DIY-er, Val.