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!

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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:

• 100% Cotton Shirts… Any color will do. Different colors create different effects.
• Contact Paper.
• Bleach
• Spray Bottle
• Tape
• Scissors

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.

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. 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. 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! 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. 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. 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.

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! 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! No matter how you use this process, you will love the results!