4th of July Shorts! QUICK AND EASY!

I know it's been A VERY LONG TIME since I've uploaded a project, but I just made these super easy and CHEAP shorts and thought I would share them with you!

I was babysitting an 11 year old girl and we went into Justice (aka Limited Too for all you 90s and 2000s kids) and saw these adorable shorts. I just HAD to have them in my size!

 

Here are the ones from Justice...

 

So, here's what you need (if you don't know what something is, you can check out the how-to pics):

• Fabric paint: red, white, and blue
• Little paint brushes
• Cheap pair of shorts (got mine from Plato's Closet for $6... if you mess up your shorts you don't want to mess up on a $50 pair of shorts)
• Plate to put the paint on

SORRY FOR THE TINY PICS.. IF I MAKE THEM ANY BIGGER THE QUALITY WILL BE BAD...

 

Step One:

Paint a blue rectangle where the right corner slightly

overlaps the pocket (see original for reference).

Apply white (I found out later that the red really

stands out on the white so if you want you can do

the entire stripe section white first.

Also, if you notice in the original the flag isn't a perfect

rectangle, but you can do it how ever you want.

 

Step Two:

Apply stars to blue. Mine are just dots...

I'm not crafty enough to make tiny stars.

 

Step Three:

 

Wait for blue and white to dry. IMMEDIATELY WASH PLATE IF IT'S A GOOD PLATE!!

 

 

Step Four:

 

APPLY RED!

This was my original, but then I

realized it didn't look like the picture.

SO I FIXED IT.

I tried splatter paint with the white and red, but it got very dangerous for my table, so if you want the vintage splatter paint look then splat your brush randomly on the flag (white on the stripes and red on the blue.... I actually don't like the red on the blue, but too late for me now.. haha).

 

HOPE YOU ENJOY YOUR 4TH OF JULY!