Birthday Shirt Tradition


It's becoming a new tradition at our house for the Birthday child to have a birthday shirt. It's fun to wear something made just for you on your birthday and it makes it easy to tell what year that birthday photo is from :)

I did Jay's birthday shirt with a simple number cut from a scrap of fabric and ironed on using double sided steam-a-seam. You could also just embroider it on.

Then I cut things from fabric that he has really loved this past year to make it "his" shirt. He loves all things that fly.

Kay's birthday shirt got us going on this tradition. She's had a love-of-all-things-piggy-year.

Some other birthday traditions for us are to measure up on the Growing Walls that I did made for each of the kids (and take a picture there).

And we also like to make a hand print of the birthday child with ink for the family scrapbook. It's fun to compare how hands and height have changed over the years.

I would love to hear your ideas on fun traditions too!

3 comments:

  1. I do this for my son every year. I make it like a jersey with his name on the back and how old he is. On the front I put a picture of the theme of his party. 1 yr old was a giraffe and said "the Big 1", 2 years was Elmo, 3 years was Little Foot, 4 years was Scooby Doo. I keep his birthday shirts in his keepsake box. He loves to look at them and it helps me remember his birthdays! By-the-way, I just found your site! Love it!

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  2. Hi, thank you for sharing. I posted your tutorial on my blog with a link back to your blog, hope it’s ok http://makeitandwearit.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/birthday-t-shirt.html.
    Please write me if there is a problem makeandwear@gmail.com.

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  3. Hi, thank you for sharing. I posted your tutorial on my blog with a link back to your blog, hope it’s ok http://makeitandwearit.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/birthday-t-shirt.html.
    Please write me if there is a problem makeandwear@gmail.com.

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