How to make Lorax shirts for your Dr. Seuss event Christie Dedman/News Staff
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Anyway we plan to see it this weekend. To increase their excitement I made Lorax shirts for my sons and a Truffula tree shirt for my daughter. {the iphone picture of the shirts distorted the color of the trees. Bright purple, pink and orange.}
My daughter will wear her shirt to school Friday to celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday.
Note -- the hodge podge placement of the trees can make it interesting.
Here's what you'll need:
Solid shirt -- I picked up shirts at Walmart.
Piece of cardboard or posterboard
Puffy paint (if you plan on doing a lot of yellow get the big bottle) Small bottles are 97 cents at Walmart.
FOR EITHER SHIRT - YOU NEED TO LET THE PAINT DRY 72 HOURS BEFORE WASHING IT.
It will be dry enough to wear before then, just not a good idea to wash it.
Directions for the LORAX SHIRT
Use a solid orange shirt and yellow puffy paint.
Before you paint, insert the cardboard into the shirt so the paint won't bleed through to the back.
I free-handed a mustache on an orange shirt. I used the puffy paint to fill in the outline and left lines to simulate hair -- You do not need a paint brush with the puffy paint.
Eyes -- I used white and blue acrylic paint and black puffy paint for his eyes.
Don't forget add a spec of white on the black to simulate catch lights.
Nose and mouth, I used orange paint for both to complete the monochromatic feel of the shirt.
DIRECTIONS FOR THE TRUFFULA SHIRT
Use a solid pastel shirt with assorted colors in puffy paint.
Don't forget to insert cardboard or poster board to prevent the paint from seeping through to he back.
I free-handed the circles and stems.
Once you're done with the circles following the tips in the video, go back and draw a stem using yellow or white puffy paint.
You'll then go back over the stem using the black paint and just had tiny little slashes from top to bottom.
Go here to see a video of me actually creating one of the trees: