Wearable Photos

Howard, Dave. (2000). Wear your photography: From camera to t-shirt with an ink jet printer. Shutterbug: Scanners and Printers. Available at: http://shutterbug.com/equipmentreviews/scanners_printers/0300sb_wear/

I just read a great article about how to put photos on t-shirts. It sounds really easy. It may not be completely educational, but I think it would be fun. Here are the basic steps:

1. You would need a computer, printer, and transfer paper. The article used Epson, but said there were many other brands. I will be more than happy to do some shopping around for this.
2. The article also suggests putting two pillow cases on top of a table and then putting the shirt on the pillow cases. It seems the hard surface of a table works better than an ironing board. They said virtually any iron will do.
3. Each child could bring in a plain white t-shirt.
4. Then we would just have to take a photo of our class (I was thinking we could position them in front of the school sign).
5. We would then print out the picture onto the transfer paper.
6. Then iron the image onto the t-shirt.

If you find out that this ends up being more expensive than feasible (the cost of a class set of the transfer paper and ink for 8x10 pictures) then you could also do this as a gift for your room moms for Christmas or the end of the year. You could even iron the image onto an apron and then let the students paint their hand prints on it, too, and attach a card saying, “Thanks for giving our class a helping hand!” You could even have a "slogan contest" and have the students think of photos and words that could be put on the class shirts/room mom presents...there I added a little "educational value." What was I saying about clear goals and planning?? :o)

For more details and ideas, check out the article! Happy Snapping!

Sabrina