For our 2 days at Magic Kingdom I made 2 different kinds of shirts. For the first day our twins were going to get pirate make-overs at the Pirates League so I decided to get iron-ons that had Mickey Pirate Heads on them. I found an etsy seller (tnmomof2) who designed them and would email the designs, so that I could print them on my own iron-on paper. It was quick, easy, and cheap to print them myself. But, I didn't really like the quality of the iron-ons and felt that they didn't look nearly as good as the ones that I got from Miss Morgan. They still looked cute and I did want to try various types of shirts, but I won't be going this route for future trips. Also, at dinner our little guy got his shirt quite wet and the ink on the designs smeared and looked horrible. I ended up throwing all of these shirts away at the end of our trip. But, they served their purpose.
For our 2nd day at Magic Kingdom I decided to make shirts by sewing on felt Mickey Heads. I bought the felt and Tacky spray (I originally wasn't going to sew them, but the tacky spray didn't work all that well) at Michael's. I used templates from the Easter shirts to get the right size Mickey heads for each of our shirts. I cut out the Mickey head on paper and then pinned it to the felt so that I could cut the felt out. I then sprayed the felt with the tacky spray and stuck it to the shirt. I made sure to put a piece of cardboard inside the shirt so that the spray didn't bleed through. Once the tacky spray was dry, it seemed to stick pretty well, but a few of the edges were pulling up and I didn't trust my kids not to pick at them in the park, so I decided to sew them. In the future, I will not spray them before sewing because the spray made the felt very hard and was difficult to sew by hand. But, I got them finished and thought they turned out great. I also bought black bows for the girls' shirts and sewed them onto the top of the heads so that they could be Minnie heads.
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