Flour sack towels can be used to capture your children's handprints and record custom drawings and messages. A finished towel that has been decorated will make a nice keepsake that can be used to decorate your home or given to a grandparent, aunt, or uncle.
Craft Materials
Add Handprints, Lettering, And Decorations
Purchase a non-toxic paint product and markers that can be used on cotton fabric. The tight weave of each flour sack towel will absorb paint colors easily. A 3-dimensional paint product can be used to create raised lettering and pictures, a permanent finger paint product can be used to add colorful handprints, and fabric markers can be used to add fine details to each sack towel.
Request that your children decorate a set of towels for home use and decorate a set of towels to be given to loved ones. Use shallow trays to hold the paint that is going to be used for the handprints. Suggest that each child selects their favorite color of paint. Fill each tray with one of the requested paint colors.
Tell your children to dip their palms into the paint. After each palm is covered with paint, instruct your children to press their hands carefully against the fabric. After your children wash their hands, they can either add additional prints that are alternate colors or can begin adding lettering and pictures to each sack towel. Encourage each of your children to use paint to add their names to the towels.
Secure The Towels To Dowels Or Frame Them
Use a hairdryer to dry the paint that has been applied to each towel. Decorated sack towels can be hung on a wall or set up on a table, with the aid of a supportive frame. If you choose to use dowels to support the hanging of each towel, you will need to fold down the top of each towel and use a straight stitch to secure it. Insert a dowel through the hemmed edge and then use hardware to secure the dowel to a wall.
If you choose to use a picture frame to support each towel, purchase wooden frames that your children can hand paint or metal frames that are complementary to the artwork that was added to each towel. Towels that become dirty can be laundered and dried in a standard washer or dryer. The colorfast paint products that were used to decorate each flour sack towel will remain intact.
To try out this craft project, check out an arts and crafts store that offers flour sack towels in bulk.
Share30 July 2021
About a year ago, I realized that I was running out of disposable income to use for decorating my place. Instead, I was working hard to pay my bills each and every month, and it was really frustrating. Fortunately, a friend of mine suggested saving money by crafting in my spare time. I started spending a lot of time looking around my house for things to fix up or use for crafts, and it was a great use of my spare time. Within a few weeks, I had made a few great wreaths for my front door and updated the crown molding around my house. This blog is all about improving your place with a few nice crafts.
