Painting potholders and oven mitts

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Painting potholders and oven mitts

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Instructions in 6 steps Colourful and handy. With very little assistance, the children can create their own pot holders and oven gloves - for giving away or treating themselves.

Besides the articles listed below, you also need:

And this is how it works:

Step 1

Pot holder
The colourful felt stars are self-adhesive and are great for children to use them as templates. To do this, place the stars on the fabric and trace their outlines using a fabric paint pen.

Step 2

Pot holder
First trace all the outlines, then colour in the stars.

Step 3

Pot holder
Unique designs are created by letting children's imaginations run wild. Here concretely, a cute dwarf emerges.

Step 4

Oven glove
Create the oven glove by painting at first the bee bodies with the yellow fabric paint pen. Let the paint dry well out.

Step 5

Oven glove
When the paint is no longer wet, you can draw black stripes, the face and the heart-shaped wings on the bees by means of the black fabric paint pen.

Step 6

Oven glove
Decorate further the glove with flowers, dots and other ideas that come to mind.

Advice on fabric paint pens:
The fabric paint pens are easy to use and their paint does not need to be fixed. The painted fabric can be washed at 30 degrees after 48 hours.