Making T-Shirt Gifts
Students
can personalize T-shirts with poems they have written and individual
photos. Students can also place stories
or artwork they have created on their shirts.
Materials:
• Cotton or cotton/poly blend fabric
T-shirt
(white works
best)
• Poem - word processed
• Color photo of student
• Inkjet printer
• Inkjet t-shirt iron-on transfer paper
• Household iron*
• Heat-safe table top (hard surface)*
• Pillowcase
Directions:
Follow
the manufacturer’s instructions for using their iron-on transfers.
Basic
instructions are:
1. After typing the poem, use your graphics
program to “reflect” or
flip
the design horizontally so that the printer prints a mirror image of your original
design.
2. Place transfer paper into printer.
3. Select printer paper (media) according to manufacturers
directions.
4. Print your poem onto the transfer paper.
5. Scan color photo onto second sheet of
transfer paper.
6. Preheat iron to hottest setting (cotton or
linen).
7. Place Pillow case on table top, then lay
t-shirt on pillow case and iron shirt to remove wrinkles.
8. Place transfer on the warm fabric, design side down, where you want it
positioned.
9. Place iron on transfer and hold firmly for
three-five minutes.
10. After transfer cools, gently peel and remove
the paper backing from the fabric.