Iron on appliqué t-shirt! - Arts, Crafts and DIY

Something magical and fun, minimal cost, and a lot of bonding!

Material

1 T-shirt
As needed Iron-on appliqués
1 Iron
1 Ironing board or towel

Method

Take your child to a store and choose out a cute little T-shirt that is plain, and a colour they love. For me obviously my little Princess likes pink!
Art and craft and haberdashery stores will have the appliqués. You can let your childs imagination go wild by allowing them to select their favourite characters or letterings that you will iron on when you get home. We chose MoM lettering and a cute cartoon image.
Lay out the ironing board or towel at home, place the t-shirt on top and then get your little helper to show you how they want to have the letters or design laid out before mummy irons on.
Now you iron-on the appliqués.
When finished show your child and you have together created a heirloom and fun piece of clothing that is very personalised.

Notes

I made this today with my daughter Charlotte as I plan on doing some fun MoM reviews with her in the photos. So as a fun thing I thought why not and she chose the picture. I also made a similar themed picnic rug but using my initials, hubbys and my little girls, and soon we will need to add to that as I am expecting a baby in 2015. Its very adaptable, I hope you all enjoy this.

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- Gurtling
- 15 Oct 2014
  11:00 am

70 Comments

- - mom492462 said
  - 31 Mar 2023
    5:26 pm
What a fun afternoon active for everyone
My kids would think their so fancy making there very own fashion extraordinaire

- - mom400215 said
  - 28 Jun 2022
    3:38 pm
I love this idea! I thinK i might make one for my nephew for Christmas!

- - My Littlebuttons said
  - 12 Jun 2022
    3:14 pm
How cute is this and seems easy to do as well thank you for sharing

- - mom465683 said
  - 01 Jun 2022
    7:56 am
I love the idea. Very cute.

- - mom19782016 said
  - 16 Oct 2020
    2:06 pm
Fun for the kids to do

- - Ellen said
  - 27 May 2020
    7:48 am
Easy as !
We also did a lot of drawing on t-shirts with textile markers. I actually did that once for a birthday party. All kids got to decorate their own shirt, which they loved !

- - mom462038 said
  - 18 Apr 2020
    5:42 pm
Those iron on appliqués really are heaven sent. So much creating and fun with those on hand

- - Mummyofone77 said
  - 14 Nov 2019
    4:41 am
A very simple way to personalise clothing. Kids will love it

- - mom152736 said
  - 15 Aug 2019
    10:36 am
lovely way to brighten up plain shirts… and so many variations! like like!

- - kjgarner said
  - 29 Jun 2018
    10:48 am
With the iron on appliques you can choose from so many designs

- - mom111059 said
  - 24 Jun 2018
    3:22 pm
Great way to brighten up a plain t-shirt.
- kjgarner replied
  
  28 Jun 2018 , 9:42 pm
  I was thinking the same thing
- - mom112217 said
  - 24 Sep 2017
    1:09 pm
A cool looking t-shirt,thanks so much!

- - mom19782016 said
  - 27 Oct 2016
    11:52 am
I love using applique motifs on the knees of kids jeans.

- - mom111059 said
  - 19 Aug 2016
    9:25 am
can look good on jeans too

- - mom183717 said
  - 03 Jul 2016
    8:05 am
Iron on appliqués are such a great invention to brighten up any shirt

- - mom165744 said
  - 31 May 2016
    11:41 pm
This is great

- - mom160421 said
  - 26 Feb 2016
    9:48 pm
A great way to personalise clothing.

- - jess said
  - 08 Dec 2015
    12:27 pm
havent even thought about doing something like this its great i think my daughter would love doing this with me

- - 4littlemunchkins said
  - 28 Oct 2015
    10:26 pm
This is a great idea… especially for the sewing disabled like myself, will have to give it a try.

- - jodiev1980 said
  - 23 Oct 2015
    7:31 pm
We tried this and one of the iron on transfers we ought didn’t stick properly