This cool Jubilee Crown T-shirt is fantastic to make for your little prince and princesses. Especially if there is a Royal celebration coming up.
But it’s also just a really cool, fun, DIY t-shirt for them to wear. Plus Older kids could even do all or some of the painting themselves!
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If you like this then you may also like my DIY Jubilee Felt Pinwheels, DIY Jellyfish T-shirt, Queen Elizabeth II Silhouette Art
Materials To Make Your DIY Jubilee Crown T-Shirt
To make your DIY Crown T-shirt You will need
- plain white t-shirt (supermarkets are great for these)
- a crown template ( I used this PDF from ‘Instant Display’ )
- a black fabric pen
- fabric paints (red, gold, pearl blue, white).
As a note, I used Scola Fabric Paints for this project. They are a well-known, reasonably priced, child-friendly brand, but do fade over time with washing. Another brand I have used is Brian Clegg who also makes Big Colour Co.
How To Paint A DIY Jubilee Crown T-Shirt
1. Print off the ‘crown’ template and slide it under the T-shirt. You can then use this as a guide when applying the paint.
2. When painting your crown T-shirt start towards the top/center of your image and work outwards in all directions. Trying to paint in blocks of colour.
It’s important to think about where your hand is going to rest and be careful not to touch any wet paint as you may end up accidentally marking other areas of the t-shirt.
You may have to allow each paint section to dry before painting next to it with your new colour as the paint can bleed. But the paint doesn’t take long to dry.
3. When you have finished painting leave to dry. Then carefully draw around the edges with a black fabric pen.
4. When finished place an old clean piece of cotton material over the image and iron for at least 5 minutes (use cotton setting). Make sure it’s an old piece of material as the fabric paint will mark/stain it. This is important – If you don’t do this stage the fabric paint will wash out!
Caring For Your DIY Jubilee Crown T-Shirt
Make sure you wash the t-shirt in cold water to preserve the image for as long as possible. I washed this T-shirt by hand in cold water and the red still bled little. The rest of the fabric paint stayed true.
I like the result. The red has got a nice washed shabby chic feel about it and adds even more ‘cool’ to the t-shirt.
The first time we made this was for the Queens Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 2012 and my daughter loved it.
Cool! I keep meaning to make some more t-shirts, I used to fabric paint them a lot a few a years ago – nice idea!
Cool! I keep meaning to make some more t-shirts, I used to fabric paint them a lot a few a years ago – nice idea!
I am falling more and more in love with fabric paints every time I use them 🙂
I love this idea. I’m going to do something similar-ish but it involves no paint lol.
I love this idea. I’m going to do something similar-ish but it involves no paint lol.
That is so effective! truly brilliant. Thanks for sharing on fun Sparks
That is so effective! truly brilliant. Thanks for sharing on fun Sparks
Lovely idea!! I may well use the basic idea for a kids party this week. I want them to make something nice to take home.
Lovely idea!! I may well use the basic idea for a kids party this week. I want them to make something nice to take home.
Thank you again for this blog, I used the idea for my son’s 5th birthday party today. I printed basic colouring pages and used them. The kids had so much fun doing it and the parents were very impressed. So much nicer for them to take home than a party pack of junk
Fab, so glad it went well 🙂 it’s such an easy and fun way to make tshirts. Using a paintbrush and splitting the paint on the front and back looks good as well and is easy for younger kids xxx
Thank you again for this blog, I used the idea for my son’s 5th birthday party today. I printed basic colouring pages and used them. The kids had so much fun doing it and the parents were very impressed. So much nicer for them to take home than a party pack of junk
You can also use acrylic paint, which does not wash out like the red did.
Acrylic paint stays quite hard on the surface of the material where as fabric paint sinks in and becomes soft and part of the material
You can also use acrylic paint, which does not wash out like the red did.
Acrylic paint stays quite hard on the surface of the material where as fabric paint sinks in and becomes soft and part of the material