Write the student's name on the inside shirt tag with permanent marker. Lay a shirt front up on a flat surface. Pour brown fabric paint into a paint tray. Press a figure eight-shaped sponge (formed for gripping for such tasks as washing cars and windows) flat side down into the paint. You can substitute the child's footprint in place of the sponge, if desired. Center the wet sponge over the shirt front and press the brown paint to the fabric. Allow the paint to dry overnight. This is the reindeer head. Pour red fabric paint into a paint tray. Have the appropriate child press her hands into the red paint. Press the child's hands, bottom of the palm aligned with the top of the reindeer head, fingers spread, onto the shirt. These are the antlers. Allow the paint to dry overnight. Glue craft eyes and a red pom-pom nose to the reindeer face with fabric glue.
Spread the shirt flat, front facing up. Pour green, red and gold fabric paint separately into three paint trays. Use a 3-inch diameter plastic lid as a "wreath center" pattern and trace around it in pencil on the front center of the shirt. The wreath will be formed by six or more handprints in the form of a circle with the bottom of the palms aligned with the line of the traced center circle. Alternate the paint colors of the handprints. Allow the fabric paint to dry overnight. Glue a red ribbon bow to the top center of the handprint wreath on the shirt with fabric glue.
Thanksgiving is a great holiday for a handprint shirt because a handprint naturally makes a turkey shape. Paint a child's palm and thumb with a liberal amount of brown fabric paint. Press the child's palm and thumb onto the front center of a shirt. Allow the paint to dry overnight. Paint each finger with fabric paint in autumn colors (orange, red, yellow and green). Align the child's palm over the dried palm print and press his fingers onto the shirt to form turkey feathers. Use a rubber or foam triangle stamp to press an orange "beak" onto the turkey face. Press a capital "Y" stamp into black fabric paint. Position the "Y" upside down and press two "Ys" beneath the turkey for legs. Glue a craft eye onto the turkey.
Make a flower shirt for a spring craft project. Press a hand into pink fabric paint and then onto the front center of a flat T-shirt. Allow the paint to dry overnight. Use a foam rectangle stamp to press a green stem beneath the center bottom of the palm print. Use the same green fabric paint to coat each of the person's thumbs. Press the thumbs against the fabric on each bottom side of the stem for flower leaves. An optional yellow circle can be painted on the center of the handprint flower.