How to Iron Backing to Freezer Paper

Video Transcript

"Hi. Shelly Cordsen here with expert village and we're continuing making our personality placemats. Okay when we last talked, your kids were taking this into another room to color. Which, what will help them color is take the drawing that they had and now on the paper you're going to turn it up to the shiny side. Sunny side, shiny side. Same thing. And it's going to want to curl on you. Take what they drew. Well, and just lay that on there and iron it. So what you're doing is you're ironing the muslin to that shiny side of the freezer paper. And what this does is it stabilizes the fabric. Try not to get your iron on that. It doesn't adhere permanently, but just temporarily enough to give it some stiffness. So now when they take their colors and actually the cheapest colors you can buy, there's a color, a brand out there called Rose Art, which is pretty inexpensive, the better, actually. So have them take their colors, and they need to color dark. I know this looks like black but it's actually a pretty blue. And so I sat all my grandkids at the dining room table and they just started coloring their little hearts out. So, the darker the better. Okay. And then what happens, when they're all through coloring. This paper will just peel off and it's done nothing to it but it's given them some stability. Otherwise when you try to color on fabric by itself it tends to want to bunch up. So this helps stabilize it. And, we have one over here already done. You will now take that finished colored one. Take a paper towel. Lay over that crayon. And then you're going to iron it again. I'm going to hold the iron there for a few seconds and what this does is it absorbs extra wax and it also sets it. So it's durable, washable. And you don't have to spend the money for fabric crayons. There are fabric crayons out there but just any old crayons works. And if there was excess wax it will come off on your paper towel."