My young kids came home from school needing an art smock - one of their dad's t-shirts or long sleeved shirts. I've heard t-shirts are better because the kids don't need to button them. Plus the short sleeves are actually long sleeves on young kids. I thought I would let the kids decorate them this weekend. Any ideas?

Handprint or footprint t-shirts. Squeeze some paint in paper plates. Let them put their hands or feet in it and stamp it onto their shirts. Use fabric paints. Don't forget to insert a piece of cardboard between the layers of the shirt so the paint doesn't leak to the second layer. Fun for them to be messy sometimes :) I like the thumbprint idea, will try that next time.

We decorated t-shirts for their art classes too. It was a great project to do before the start of the school year. We bought some iron-on designs from Walmart. The easy way!

if you are decorating a girl's t-shirt, you could let her make little flowers with thumbprinting. you could draw the stems and let her make the flower ....

how about apple printing with frabric paint? easy and you get to use apples for fall.