Kid Craft: DIY Watercolor Fabric Pillows
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This week for our Make Something Monday craft project, the kids and I got creative with bandanas and paint and made these awesome DIY Watercolor Fabric Pillows!
I saw this fabric painting method over at the Girl Creative a couple of years ago and have been wanting to try it with my kids ever since!
We used white bandannas and fabric paint to create these fun Watercolor Fabric Pillows. The kids are thrilled with how they turned out and have been carrying the pillows from room to room all day long for the last few days.
I used my sewing machine to put the pillows together, but if you don’t sew you could easily do this with iron on hem tape or hot glue.
Here is how we made the fabric and pillows.
You need:
- Solid colored bandannas or other solid cotton fabric (bandannas are about 22 inches square.)
- fabric paint
- cups
- water
- foam paint brushes
- pillow stuffing
- sewing supplies or iron/ hem tape
When mixing up the paint, I recommend about a 1 to 1 mixture of paint and water. You don’t want to use too much water as it will lighten the fabric paint too much, but not enough water will prevent the paint from spreading out on the fabric and that is what gives it the pretty watercolor effect.
If painting with little ones, I also recommend using a sturdier cup than the paper cups we used. We had a few spills and I plan to use heavy coffee cups next time.
After mixing up the paint and laying out the supplies in the garage, I let the kids go at the painting on their own.
After they finished painting, I pulled the bandannas out into the sun and let them dry for a few hours. Then I threw them into the dryer to heat set them.
The fabric was pretty stiff from all the paint and drying in the sun, so I waited a few days, then tossed them into the washer to soften them up.
Sewing the pillows was very easy, I put the bandannas right sides together and sewed around the entire bandanna, leaving about a 3 inch opening so we could add the stuffing. To create the little edge detail, I flipped the pillows right side out after sewing and ironed the edges flat. Then I sewed around the bandanna one more time, 1 inch in from the outer seam. (Leaving another 3 inch opening for the stuffing.)
Tada! Cut new pillows! They love ’em!
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