“My Peeps” Shirt with Free Printables

The herald of spring and Easter has arrived in stores, the marshmallow peep! Now that it’s arrived I thought I would make a shirt for my son featuring the peeps. I used a stencil to paint the image on a separate piece of fabric because I liked how it looked and as a bonus, after Easter I have the option to remove it from the shirt and save it for next year! But you could always paint it directly onto a shirt.

The materials I used: one Garanimals shirt from Wal-Mart ($3.50 for a new shirt, awesome!), paint brush and Tulip soft matte paint in glacier white and sunshine yellow, a 5″ x 3.5″ piece of knit fabric, thread and sewing machine, cutting board and x-acto knife, my free peeps printables/stencils PDF.

In the PDF I included 4 pages to give you a few different options and you can choose your favorite peep, the chick or the bunny. The pages include what you see below in the color versions and in a black version that’s easier to use for a stencil.

To make the shirt just print out the page including the image you want from my PDF. Cut out the letters/image with an x-acto knife. Then line up the stencil on the fabric and paint in the letters and images. I just freehanded the inside of the “e” and “a” and the lines inside of the chicks. You could also cut the eyes, the lines in the chicks, and the insides of the letters out of tape and paint over them then peel off the tape with tweezers while the paint is still wet. After the first coat of paint I let everthing dry then removed the stencil and did a second coat to clean up the edges and fill in the colors more uniformly.

Next, position the fabric on the shirt, pin it down and stitch it. I used yellow thread to contrast with the gray knit fabric. And I used a knit fabric so I could leave the raw edges and not have to worry about any fraying or hemming.

And that’s it! A fast and cute shirt ready to go.

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  3. Adorable add on to your son’s shirt. Your tutorial is great, I like the details of how much each item will cost. Such a cute idea.

    Thanks for linking to the 52 week challenge.

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  9. I have that yellow and gray striped shirt, and a piece of gray remnant that I have been wanting to make into a project. I think that this may be it. Thank you for the inspiration.

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  12. Love any way to mix boys with Easter! And I am so excited that you did not use a craft machine to do this. Way to do it the old fashioned way! Thanks for linking up with DIY under $5!

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  18. Mary this is totally adorable! I have featured this today. Thanks so much for stopping by and linking up to the Sunday Showcase – I greatly appreciate it. Hope you have a wonderful holiday! ~ Stephanie Lynn

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  25. Beautiful work, cute idea as well. Curious on the paint, how many coats did you do, two? How did you get the white to look white on dark fabric? Did the paint crack after painting?

    Hope you will be able to answer. Thanks.

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    1. Hi Denise! It’s been awhile since I made the shirt but the paint is pretty opaque and I think I did two or three light coats of paint. It holds up well in the laundry. I didn’t have any flake off and I don’t think I had any cracks on this shirt. The first time I used this type of paint on a different shirt I did it too thick so it was raised off the fabric a little and that eventually cracked. Hope that helps!

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