How to Make Homemade Football Shirts for the Super Bowl

When the Super Bowl approaches each February, football fans around the country gather for parties and to cheer on either team. Instead of the expense of buying a jersey of a player on either team, you can create your own shirt to give yourself a unique look. You can begin with a T-shirt or sweatshirt and add all the custom graphics you wish.

Things You'll Need

  • Shirt
  • Iron-on decals
  • Scissors
  • Iron
  • Stickers
  • Glitter paint
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Instructions

    • 1

      Select a shirt from your own wardrobe or buy a new shirt that you can customize. The shirt should ideally be the same color as the team for which you will cheer. For example, if you plan to cheer for the Green Bay Packers, select a green or yellow shirt.

    • 2

      Use Adobe Photoshop, another graphic design program or even a word processing program to design custom graphics for your shirt. Because the NFL copyrights its teams logos, you technically shouldn't print your own team logos at home. However, you can create designs that feature the names and numbers of your favorite players. If cheering for the Packers, design simple "Rodgers" and "12" graphics to represent star quarterback Aaron Rodgers and his jersey number.

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      Buy stickers or crests of the football team at sports stores or online. In the example of the Green Bay Packers, buy stickers of the team's helmet, logo and name. Affix the stickers to the shirt around the iron-on transfers you added previously.

    • 4

      Print the computer design on iron-on decal paper, which is available at most craft stores. Follow the instructions to apply the decals to the shirt. You will need to cut out each individual decal design, place it on the shirt and iron it in to position.

    • 5

      Add additional designs to the shirt with glitter paint and permanent marker, if desired. If you don't want to go to the time and expense of making your own computer designs, write your favorite players' names and numbers on the shirt.