5 Ridiculously Fun Kid Spring Fashion Trends & DIYs
If you’re excited for spring like I am, this post is just for you! I love how warm it is outside now, and I’m ready to stop wearing sweaters and jeans. There are flowers everywhere! I might need to wear my rainboots a little longer. Besides that, it is time to show off my spring style. New clothes are fun, and I love the bright colors that everyone wears in the springtime. Here are MY top tips to make your spring super stylish this year!
DIY T-Shirt Designs
Making a t-shirt with your own drawings on it is fun for boys and girls. Use fabric paint, markers, and a blank t-shirt to create fun designs. Bow ties, flowers, aliens, cupcakes – draw whatever you want! Add some glitter or puff paint to make it really shine!
What you’ll need:
- A blank t-shirt
- Fabric markers, fabric paint, and fabric glitter
- A pencil
How to do it:
- Wash a your new or old blank t-shirt. Short sleeves or sleeveless shirts are great for warm days in the spring!
- Choose a design you want to draw on your shirt, like the ones I already listed. I think I’ll choose a cupcake.
- Use a pencil to draw your design on first, or free hand it (my aunt Sue is awesome at this!)
- Make it even prettier with glitter fabric paint or puffy fabric paint.
- If you make a mistake, it’s ok. It’s pretty anyway!
- Wear your new shirt, and tell everyone how you made it all by yourself! 🙂 This is the best part!
- Get your friends together and have a DIY shirt fashion show! (IG your pictures and tag me @oliviakplay)
DIY Nail Polish Bobby Pins & Hair Clips
Have you ever seen SaraBeautyCorner on Instagram or Youtube? I have, and I love all her DIY’s. I watched one of her videos recently and fell in love with these bobby pin hair clips. I loved them so much I decided to make these for my friend Freya, she lives all the way in London. It was her birthday and since I don’t have a lot of money (I’m 6!) I wanted to make her something special to go along with a make up case my mom found for her. We used fingernail polish to add a pop of color to these bobby pins! Bonus points for using nail polish that you already have at home. That’s sustainable.
What you’ll need:
- Bobby Pins
- Hair Clips
- Index cards or strips of paper or a folder (my mom had an extra from work)
- Fingernail polish
- Rubbing alcohol
- Cotton Balls
- A surface you don’t mind getting dirty – we used newspaper under the folder
Look at how cool these look! They are going to look great in Freya’s hair!How to do it:
- Gather your bobby pins and hair clips.
- Clean them off with a cotton ball and alcohol.
- Place a little piece of paper inside of the bobby pins and clips so that the paint doesn’t glue them closed.
- Put the clips and bobby pins on something that you can throw away, like a paper towel or plastic table cover.
- Paint the tops of your bobby pins and hair clips however you want!
- Let the clips dry. You can paint your nails while they dry.
- Once they’re dry, wear them!
Mix and Match Your Clothes
Wear your clothes in a new way! If you usually wear your yellow shirt with your pink shorts, why not wear them with your purple shorts next time? I love to see how many different outfits I can make with my favorite clothes.
Wear Patterns
Be bold and wear a lot of patterns this spring. Some of my favorite pattern trends right now are cacti, animals, and funny pictures of old things like record players! My mom says that’s how people used to listen to music a long time ago. Sometimes people still use them. I also love big bows this spring. I have them in all different colors and think they look great paired with all my Spring clothes.
Accessorize
I’m not going anywhere without my favorite sunglasses this spring and summer! I love to wear lots of cool accessories with my clothes. Beside the hair clips that I made, here are a few other accessories that would look super pretty and handsome!
- Sunglasses
- Hair clips (like the ones we made), headbands, & hairbows
- Bowties
- Hats – bucket hats, baseball hats, floppy hats, any type of hat!
- Flower crowns- I want one of these so bad! Its on my wishlist for my birthday in June!
- Necklaces and bracelets with your favorite characters on them
That’s all for this time! I hope you make your spring a fashionable one ♥
Fun! My kids would love to design their own t-shirts. I will have to do this with them.
Yes! Take lots of pics and tag me @oliviakplay
I so love how you made the bobby pins look. What a great use for nail polish!
Thanks! I learned this from Sara Beauty Corner. She is amazing, I love all her DIY’s.
My daughter would love to do any of these. She loves to decorate her clothes and has several big bows.
Thank you! If she makes the shirt take a picture and tag me! @oliviakplay
You are adorable Olivia! These styles are all exciting. My daughter would be delighted to try DIY T-shirt design.
Thank you 🙂 I hope you and your daughter have fun making the shirt. Tag me in a picture! @oliviakplay
My kids do all of the above, or have at one point or another. My youngest loves to, and always has, dress herself and design some of her clothes.
I believe fashion is whatever you feel inside. Some days I feel all yellow and some days I’m a rainbow of colors. I hope your daughter has fun with fashion too!
My kids love any and everything DIY. They love to make their own shirts and wear them to school.
It is so much fun to wear them to school. Its like being a fashion designer of your own brand.
Used to love making t-shirts with my boys. It became a family tradition starting when about 30 families did this in Florida, all kids visiting their grandparents.
Wow! Do you have any pictures? I would love to see them!
This is super fun! It’s fun to try out all the trends these days even just once. I love that you also did some DIYs!
Thanks! I love to do DIY’s with my mom and sometimes my little brother even joins.
This sounds like a fun DIY that my son would like to make. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks! I hope your son has a lot of fun!
My kids are excited to make shirts and try the bobby pins. Great ideas! Thanks
such cute options. i’ll have to see which one my daughters want to try out first.
I used to own a business which involved blank white tshirts. I no longer have my business but still have plenty of tshirts. My daughter is constantly creating something with them!
Having a daughter who always wants to create her own clothes is sometimes hard.. thanks for these awesome DIY ideas.
I love the idea of creating our own shirts. You have fun ideas.
Thank you Cynthia. My mom got me a notebook and I call it my blog notebook. We write down all my ideas and then turn them into blogs!
I love these ideas! I think creating your designs for clothing is an excellent idea!
Thank you Wendy! My friend Freya really loved them too!
I like the idea of DIYing the bobby pins. They do look super cute!
Thank you Aduke!
I am always in awe of those DIY kings and queens. I am so not that…LOL…although I would love to be.
Thank you!
I love the combination of pink and black. It really looks good and it creates a young and chic look on anyone.
Thank you Claire! I love it too!
We love making our own T-shirts! The local dollar store sells them, so we stock up during the summer.