How to Make Personalized Colorforms

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Remember Colorforms? I loved those things as a little girl.

Then I saw these fabulous plates on At Second Street. And I was amazed!!! How brilliant.

I was inspired by her plate rubbings idea to create some personalized coloroforms for my kids.

These things are freakin’ awesome! (if I do say so myself)

It’s not a plate (because I’m that mom, the one who is less than thrilled about the idea of playing with food.)

It started with a piece of cardboard cut from the top of a box. 

I covered in it two layers of canvas drop cloth, attached with Spray Adhesive.

Then I printed a picture of each of the kids. I put them in PicMonkey and used the “pencil sketch” option first to make things easier for myself.

I went over the main features with pencil using thick, dark lines.

Then I turned the pictures upside down and rubbed them with the blunt end of a butter knife. You have to rub really hard. When you transfer, the picture will be backwards on your finished product. 

The rubbings were really light. (This is after I traced over them again with the pencil.)

I traced over them with a Sharpie Fabric Marker. 

Then I cut sun glasses, mustaches, and bow ties, eye patches, etc. out of felt and had way too much fun de-facing my children…

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