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| Photo from my sister-in-law |
You will need:
Red apron
Small pieces of orange, white, and black fabric (thanks to our school mascot for being a tiger, I had scraps of all of these)
Some iron-on backing, whichever you prefer
1. Start with a print out of Elmo- I did a Google image search for Elmo and used the search tools to find a line drawing of just his face. I copied the image to a publisher document and stretched it to fit an 8 1/2 x 11" piece of paper. It's okay if the sides of his face are cut off. You only need his eyes and mouth on one piece.
2. Cut out the pieces of Elmo's face. Fuse your backing to the pieces of black, white and orange fabric, ensuring you have enough space for each of the pieces on their appropriate color fabric. You really don't need much.
3. Trace the pieces onto the backing. Note: I did not flip the pieces when I did this- it didn't make a difference for Elmo, but might make a difference in other characters. Remember you are tracing to the BACK of your material, so if you decide to do letters or something else with this same technique you will need to flip your paper over before tracing (or if you're tech savvy, flip it on the computer before you print it).
4. Line up your pieces. I used the white cutout to make sure the eye and nose pieces were centered.
5. Iron on according to your fusing material's instructions.
That's it! I thought about stitching along the edges, but the fusing material held pretty well. Another option would be to use puffy paint to outline it, but I thought it looked just fine without any extra work. So easy and my niece was soooo excited about the apron!
