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Kids Party Favors – Custom T-Shirts

If you are planning a party you can get totally wrapped up in the food, the activities, & the decorations. Sometimes grabbing the Kids Party Favors gets left until the last minute. How many times have you left a party with goodie bags full of plastic junk and candy that gets lost in your car before you make it home? Or passed out something like this just because you didn’t have a better idea… I promise these kids’ party favors will be a Hit!

Create these custom t-shirts for any party! You can create this silhouette effect in just about any shape you can think of! Perfect for kids party favors or creating a theme for any event! Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate commission.  Thank you for supporting Twitchetts!

I will start off by saying that these shirts a Not hard to make or time-consuming. Everyone was thrilled to get a shirt, and it really made for some amazing pictures that brought the whole party together! Now I have to give some credit here to A Spotted Pony. This is where Kate originally saw a handprint idea that we used to make Father’s Day shirts last year! {Side note, I highly suggest checking those out! SO COOL and the perfect gift for dad!}

I did make a couple of changes, but our original shirts following their method turned out great too.

What You Need for Your Own Bleach Printed Shirts:

Making your Kids Party Favors:

Watch them made in under a minute below!


I did this for both of my kiddo’s parties this year! We did lightning bolts for J’s party (there is a long sob story on why there is no post on that…). For V’s birthday, we had a PJ Masks theme so we did all three main characters and Night Ninja.These fun custom t-shirts make the perfect party favor for your kids PJ Masks Birthday party!

Create a template for your design. Either print something off the internet or draw it out. Using a thicker cardstock will make this a bit easier. These fun custom t-shirts make the perfect party favor for your kids PJ Masks Birthday party! We did Catboy, Gekko, Owlette, and Night Ninja!Tape your template onto a piece of contact paper, cut out, and repeat as needed. When putting your design on the paper side of the contact paper it will be backward. For these shapes, it did not matter, but if you are doing letters or numbers make sure to lay them the correct way before cutting out your template.

Peel off the back and place your design on the shirt. Make sure to press down all of the edges.These fun custom t-shirts make the perfect party favor for your kids PJ Masks Birthday party! We did Catboy, Gekko, Owlette, and Night Ninja! This is VERY important so the bleach doesn’t seep under.

Lay your shirt flat on a cardboard box or trash bag… Anything flat that you don’t mind getting bleach on. Fill your spray bottle with bleach. Only spray 2 or 3 times on the mist setting. You can Always spray it more, but it really doesn’t take much!Create these custom t-shirts for any party! You can create this silhouette effect in just about any shape you can think of! Perfect for kids party favors or creating a theme for any event! Within seconds you will see it start to change. The full effect won’t take too much longer. I notice that some colors take more and less time.

Leave them to dry for a bit. Check back on them in about 15 minutes. If you are happy with the effect take a paper towel and blot off any drops of bleach on the contact paper.Create these custom t-shirts for any party! You can create this silhouette effect in just about any shape you can think of! Perfect for kids party favors or creating a theme for any event! For the Night Ninja shirt, I poked a bunch of holes on a large piece of contact paper. I then rubbed the bleach into the holes once I had sprayed it.These fun custom t-shirts make the perfect party favor for your kids PJ Masks Birthday party! We did Catboy, Gekko, Owlette, and Night Ninja! Throw your shirts, with the contact paper still on, and wash on a quick cold cycle in the wash. Most of the contact paper will come off in the wash. Make sure to remove any still on the shirts before throwing in the dryer on low heat.PJ Masks Party Favor Shirts

Finished Product!

Then they are done! You have your own personalized kid’s party favors to hand out, and I promise they will love them!These fun custom t-shirts make the perfect party favor for your kids PJ Masks Birthday party! We did Catboy, Gekko, Owlette, and Night Ninja! You could do these so many ways… and they aren’t just for parties either! We have made a few just for fun around the house!Create these custom t-shirts for any party! You can create this silhouette effect in just about any shape you can think of! Perfect for kids party favors or creating a theme for any event! No matter how you use this process, you will love the results!

Tawny

Friday 18th of May 2018

Thank you for this wonderful easy project. We made pj mask shirts for my three year olds bdayband it was sooo easy. I printed the template directly onto “label” paper and cut that out. We loooove them!!

Kim

Friday 12th of January 2018

I came upon this just in time for my sons 5yo PJ Masks birthday party. Bought shirts and all of the supplies. Just started on this to try out with first 100% cotton shirt I ordered off Jiffy Shirts and the bleach doesn't seem to be working? It's been sitting on my dark green shirt for over 20 minutes with no change to the color. I verified that I am use regular (not color safe) bleach that is concentrated and I cannot figure out why it is not accepting/changing the shirt. Any ideas? I'm at a loss. :(

Susie

Monday 15th of January 2018

I'm not sure why it isn't working... I have done this process many times with many different brands and colors of shirts without any issues. I know that isn't any help. Did you get more than one color? If so are the other colors working? I used just regular old Clorox bleach. Could you visibly see that the shirt looked a bit damp after spraying?

Wendy R

Saturday 29th of July 2017

What a wonderful idea! Question: does the contact paper stay in the machine when the load is done or does it go down the pipes?

My 3yo is having a birthday soon and this sounds like a great favor idea since we will have infants to preteens. :)

Kate

Friday 4th of August 2017

The contact paper will stay in the machine. We've never had a problem with it going down the pipes. Have fun!

Cherita

Monday 13th of March 2017

Love the idea. My son is having a PJ masks themed party so I would love to do this. I have one question...Did you dilute the bleach?

Susie

Tuesday 14th of March 2017

I did not dilute it. Just make sure you only spray a couple times.... remember you can always spray more ;) Have a great party!!

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