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Wordful Wednesday. How to Make a Cape.

From a t-shirt!

Because I have absolutely no idea how to make a cape from fabric.  With like a sewing machine or whatever.

What I do know, is that, when strapped for things to do on a rainy Tuesday that happened to follow a rainy Monday and an unseasonably cold weekend, you sorta just need something amazing to wow your 5 year old son with.

Capes work particularly well when said 5 year old spends half of his life as a super human super hero.

how to make a cape

Tutorial: Easy T-shirt Capes for Super Heroes & Their Side Kicks

Supplies:

  • one old and ratty t-shirt man sized
  • 2 colors of felt, the kind with one sticky side is easy and less messy, but old school felt works too
  • fabric paint or markers, the glittery kind if your kids dig that

Now that you’ve gone shopping (at the craft store or in your house) it’s time to take less than 15 minutes to whip this bad boy up with your kid.

Step 1: Cut felt super hero-ish.

Step 2: Peel and stick on back of shirt.

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Step 3: Cut off both shirt sleeves.

Step 4: Cut up both sides of shirt leaving it only attached at the top shoulders.

Step 5: Cut both shoulder seams up to the neck.  DO NOT CUT NECK.

Step 6: Cut front of shirt off leaving the neck completely intact.

Step 7: Let your little hero get his or her (chicks can be super too) decorate on with the fabric paint & markers.

diy capes boys

Step 8: Let dry.  Longer than they’d like, but long enough that you won’t get paint on your ceiling when they start flying about your house.

Step 9: Prepare to be amazed.  Because rocking a cape just brings that sort of thing out in a guy.

Seven second video should sum things up…

 

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This week’s featured linkers feature a photo of Babfor. You’ll have to take my word for it when I tell you that you have to visit To the Sea to see these pictures from Tanzania. They are amazing and each has so much depth! Nothing is sweeter than a child “cooking” marshmallows. Don’t blink! As you know, before you know it, our babies have grown so much! I hope you all had as nice a “hiatus” or Spring Break as Life Darling did!

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Comments

  1. You are crafty and you don’t know it! Also, did you capitalize “do not cut the neck” from personal experience in previous cape making endeavors?

  4. Ingenious.
    Seriously.
    My kid would totally wear it to school.
    And when he’s running around the yard being all “anti-pants”

  5. Okay, that is a super fab idea! LOVE IT! Pinning now.

    Also, I just saw your Harlem Shake video after the other video and it was AWESOME.

    Lastly, your new site looks A-MAZING!!! You totally rock, you know that, right?

    MWAH!

  10. Look at you go, crafty lady! I will have to try that one day when we are bored to tears. My MIL actually made some pretty nifty ones for the boys, but then again, she sews and seriously is crafty, unlike me.

  15. Love love love! My middle daughter is going to flip out when she sees this… and I will be making one for her before week’s end, I assure you! :)

  17. I love how serious his crime fighting face is in the collection of “flying” pics at the top. Absolutely priceless. I’m seeing that one behind the “I Do’s” at his wedding…or in his senior year book.

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