Fun Do-It-Yourself Fall Craft Ideas!

Love designing your own clothes online? Check out these fabulous fall fashion ideas - to make right in your own home! We found these awesome ideas on the Disney Family Fun website (www.familyfun.go.com) - what creative fashion ideas can you come up with?!

1) Looping Leaf T-shirt

Materials

• T-shirt

• Fabric

• Iron-on adhesive
• Embroidery floss and needel

Instructions

1. Start with a shirt that’s been washed and dried. Choose a piece of fabric — a pattern looks best — and fuse it to iron-on adhesive, following the package’s instructions.
2. Cut a basic leaf shape from the fused fabric, then iron the leaf to the shirt.
3. Thread an embroidery needle with about 30 inches of embroidery floss. Tie a knot at the end. Use a running stitch to sew a line from one shoulder down through the center of the leaf, making a loop along the way, as shown.
4. Add several stitches to the leaf to form the veins. On the final stitch, pull the needle through to the inside of the shirt and knot the thread tightly.

2) Nature T-shirt

Materials

• Solid-colored T-Shirt
• Assorted natural objects (leaves, ferns, flowers)
• Rubber gloves
• Spray bottle

• Bleach
• Bucket
• Water

Instructions

1. Lay the shirt outdoors on a hard, flat surface, such as cement, away from anything that might be damaged by bleach. Arrange the leaves, flowers and other objects in a simple design on the shirt. Only the silhouettes of the items will show, so objects with distinctive shapes work best. If there’s a breeze, place stones on the objects to hold them in place.
2. This step is for adults only: Wearing rubber gloves, spray the shirt lightly with bleach around all the edges of the design. Let the shirt set until you see the color start to change—about 1 minute or so. Carefully remove and dispose of the flowers and leaves.
3. Submerge the shirt in a bucket of water and thoroughly rinse it. This stops the bleach from eating through the fabric. Put it through the washer and dryer, and your masterpiece is ready to wear. Note: Be sure to label the spray bottle, or empty and rinse it immediately.

Tips:

Shirts in bright hues of pink, blue and green work best.

3) Nature Crowns

Materials

• Poster board

Instructions

1. Cut a length of poster board to fit your child’s head.
2. Make horizontal slits in the paper with a craft knife, and tape the ends together.
3. Out of doors, you can insert their discoveries into the slits for a wearable collection.