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Our little dude, Reid, turns five today. In honor of this I learned how to make a freezer paper stencil. No one else seems to have heard of this trick so I thought I'd share it.


You print out your design (for us it was a #5) on a sheet of paper and trace it onto freezer paper. I bought this paper at the grocery store. Then you cut out the spaces that you want painted. Iron the paper to the shirt. It will lightly stick since the back of the paper has a plastic coating. This stops the paint from going through. Then roll fabric paint from any art store onto the design and...

peel away to see if you like your work. The only downside is that these are one time use only. I guess you could consider that a bonus because 'no one will have another shirt like it'. Who cares. I wish I could reuse the stencil to give these to Reid's buddies.

Reid loved it. I was happy because the #5 version of the shirt he had last year is $30 and I wasn't going to make that an annual purchase. Plus this was more fun.
Happy birthday kiddo!