Home made Patterned Fabric

Beautiful, eh? The idea is to involve your kids in making some of their own clothes. It's probably not the ideal fabric/print for clothes, but they all get excited about making something personal. The finished piece of fabric is probably half a yard -- enough for a skirt or for any cute little thing you'd want to make.

Materials

• Mini Paint Roller
• Fabric Paint
• Sheet of newspaper
• Leaves
• Brayer

Directions

1. Roll a mini paint roller in some fabric paint (on an acrylic box frame, but you could use a plate) then rolled the paint-soaked roller over a leaf.
2. Set the leaf paint-side down on our fabric.
3. Lay a sheet of newsprint over the leaf, and then rolled over the leaf a few times with the brayer.