Plastic Bag Iron-ons!

Here is a super cool project where you can use all those plastic bags that you always seem to end up with - homemade iron on decals! You can use any kind of plastic bag or plastic table cloth with an image you like on it. Birthday party goody bags and storebags are great for this project. If you are super creative, you can even cut and design your own free form shapes. The decals should be permanent. Our first try at this peeled off by the end of the day. It just needed a little more ironing.

We love how all colors of shirts work with this project (this is a great way to cover up stains). You can see how nice it turned out on a black shirt. You can find tutorials on several different sites, but we liked the one we found here on Filth Wizardry.

What you need:

• plastic bags
• iron
• parchment paper
• scissors

Turn on your iron to the cotton setting. Then cut out the image you want to iron on. Make sure it is smaller than the base of your iron. This is very important. We'll show you what happens to larger images later. Place your image on your shirt where your want it.

Cover the image with a piece of parchment paper. Hold your iron in the image for 10 seconds. let the paper cool for a minute, and remove the parchment.

Here's what happened when we tried to iron on a image that was too big. It started out like this...

...and ended up like this!

Next we tried cutting out pictures from a plastic table cloth. We traced an index card with a sharpie marker.

Placed them on our shirt and ironed.

Now Ben has a new custom shirt that he LOVES!!!