Textile painting for children

[rantinghousewife]

Dd (5) got told off at school for trying to paint her apron yesterday, so we had a little chat and she really wants to paint an apron. So I was thinking (and told her) that we could get a plain apron and paint it with fabric paints. Anyone done this? Or can recommend a particular brand of fabric paints, I'm thinking it would be hugely messy but I have some old curtains I could cover the floor with. And loads of good for nothing clothes that we could both wear.
I do want to have a go at silk screening myself but I think she's far too young to join me for that.
As it is she wants to make felt, so now I've got to knit a large square in freedom wool so she can see how it's felted.

Tou can do a variation on screen printing with her, get a large sheet of cardboard (the thick stuff, maybe from a box) and use a biro to carve a pattern into it, then brush it liberally with fabric paint and press the fabric onto it.

dyson fabric paints are good, you can get puffa paints too but you have to stand with a hairdryer over them for 10mins until it 'puffs', you can get pens too but silk screening sounds like much more fun!

And for felt, buy a load of knitted jumpers from charity shops.

That silk screening variation sounds really good, never thought of that. Will look out for Dyson paints and get myself down the charity shop (no problem there, love charity shops).
Thank you.

You can use ordinary wax crayons to draw a picture onto sandpaper, then iron the reverse of the sandpaper onto the garment. The picture comes out a bit speckled (and reversed) You do need to protect the OTHER side with an old cloth tho, as it can go through onto the ironing board. The colours don't seem to run in the washing machine, but fade gradually.

Silk painting is great, but xpensive to get all the stuff in the first place.

The fabric pens from Berol are good too.

Loads of good ideas, am going to have to save this thread, am intrigued by that sandpaper, wax crayon combo. Thank you.