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My 2 oldest children are taking an Art Class on Mondays. They came home last week with a art pad, pencils and etc. that needed to be contained. I went to Micheal's and bought them canvas tote bags. It just seemed wrong to take a plain canvas bag to Art Class though! LOL The 1st week of class they practiced drawing silhouettes, so that inspired us to try this:

Cool huh?

These were SUPER easy to do and the kids LOVE them!

Step #1
I taped a piece of freezer paper to the back of my laundry room door. (The only room I have that has no windows, so we could make it dark!) Then I sat each kid down on a stool and using a flashlight to make a shadow I traced them.  (This was the hardest part!  I found it worked best if I had them actually lean against the paper on the wall while I traced them.) We cut out each of the profiles and ironed them onto the canvas bags. (Freezer paper has a wax coating on one side do the wax will make it stick tight to the bag.)

Step #2
Start painting!

We used cut up pieces of a kitchen sponge to apply the paint.  For paint we used left over latex wall paint. You might notice our bags seem to match the chair my daughter is sitting in!  LOL  (It also matches my children's bathroom!)

It took a  couple coats to get it how we liked them!

The latex paint seems to stick just fine. I decided since we all have paint clothing stained with paint from past projects that surely it would stick to our bags!

Once the paint was dry we peeled off the freezer paper and had our final products! It should be pretty easy to tells who each bag belongs to!