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t-shirts
By sj

I did this for several years, and it went over quite well. I bought acrylic craft paint and a christmas tree sponge/wood stencil stamp. Put a clean white t-shirt over a grocery sack or staple it onto a 12x18" white construction
paper--just so the paint won't soak through to the back. Pour some green paint into a pie pan and let the kids stamp their shirts with green trees. These are usually dry enough by the time the kids leave school for me to go in and draw gold "tinsil" wavy marks on the trees. Next day, the kids put red and blue dots of acrylic paint on the trees, then that afternoon I add yellow

stars on the tree tops and fit in several Ho Ho Ho 's in red paint between the trees. The kids loved having these early--like from the first week of December, and I would see them being worn by some the next year, and even by siblings several years later. It was a little expensive, but I usually bought the shirts myself after deciding how many of which size I needed. A lot of the kids wore them over long-sleeved turtlenecks when the weather was too cold for the short-sleeved white ones we painted.