Shred the Competition - Part 2

I shared yesterday about how the school had hundreds of extra t-shirts with the last year on them and everyone had one already so we are going to have them shred them for home coming with the price of the shirt, they get out of class early to have time to shred the shirt before the main street parade. 

I am going to share some of the cute ideas they did on the shirts to give others ideas as to what they can do to shred their shirts for the parade and game. 

This one was figured out by Princess Fours best friend. She made long strips and then tied two together and then pulled one from one side and one from another knot and tied them together. It is cute and makes the shirt fun. Princess Four wants to put some colored beads on hers. So, we will take some pony beads and let her do something fun with those. 


Doing this does make the shirt much shorter however and you need to cut off the hem before starting this. 

Don't throw away the hem as I will show you some fun things we did with it later. If they don't want a woven look, you can just tie two strips together and leave the rest dangling so that it has more of a shredded look. 

Here is a picture of how it looks just hanging. You could also just put beads on the bottom of the fringe that is hanging. 

Here is another option with the longer strips. We took them and crossed the one on the left under the one on the right and then tied them off to the next one. It makes it more of a "criss-cross" type look. I kinda like that one.
 
This other shirt is similar to the one I did in the scrap white shirt. I did a few variations though and had Princess Five cut this shirt. In the one I did, I used a curve more than an angle on my cut. Kinda like a smiley face to the cut. Princess, did a diagonal cut. 
 
You can see she started with small cuts, got a little longer in the middle and then shorter as she got to the bottom. 

 After she had but those, I wondered what it would look like to cute a triangle in the top. We did that and then we ended up cutting out the collar totally and making the shirt a "V" neck instead of the round collar it had.
 
The girls said that lots of the boys cut out the neck of their t-shirts and also cut the arms off and open up the side seams so my guess is that they will probably do that to some of their shirts but  I can see them totally shredding them into pieces. 

I kinda picture them wearing the "Hulk" type shirt with just little pieces hanging off them. :-) 
 
The 80's hanging off the shoulder type of hanging T-shirts are back so they will probably have a few of those as well. 

The last picture is of the arm. She just took some straight snips off the shoulder when the shirt was laying flat. It looks cute but on Monday, I will show you some variations that we did that look a bit "cuter" according to the girls. 


Once they got started, they really got going and it was fun for them to brain storm and try lots of other things. 

You can do a search online and find all sorts of shirts cut up. The one Princess Four liked best was when they used the pattern for pumpkin cutting and did decorations like trees in the shirts. I thought that was a bit elaborate for "shredding" day but still was a cute idea for Halloween crafts using some orange shirts or something. 

Check back Monday for the rest of the ideas.