Bleach Spray Shirt DIY

Grab a hoodie, a bottle of bleach, and spray bottle to make a cute spray bleach shirt.

This bleach spray shirt DIY is a quick project that transforms a basic hoodie into a stylish one-of-a-kind sweatshirt. We completed the full project in under 30 minutes (that’s the time we spent on it and doesn’t include the time it dried, and then was washed and dried in the machines). And I love this project because it takes very few supplies to pull it off.

Check out my YouTube video to watch my daughter and I make this project.

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Bleach Spray Shirt DIY Supplies

Hoodie (the one shown below and linked here is THIS one).

Iron On letters (we used these exact ones).

Bleach (we didn’t use the splash less bleach)
Spray bottle
Cardboard box or towel, to place in the middle of the shirt – so the bleach doesn’t go through the shirt to the back
Trash bag – we put this over our clip board/card board box before inserting it into the shirt
Iron or Cricut Easy Press and Easy Press mat
Gloves (for when handling the bleach spray)

STEPS TO MAKE THIS BLEACH SPRAY SHIRT DIY

Find something to put inside your shirt to protect it from leaking through.

There are a number of things you can put inside the shirt to stop it from seeping through. The easiest solution is probably a cardboard box. Cut it to size and cover it with a trash bag. I have a large clip board that i stuck inside of a trash bag. A towel is another option.

Prepare your bleach/water mixture.

We used 50% water and 50% bleach in our spray bottle. Pour both into a spray bottle.

It’s a good idea to label your bottle so you know what is in it (in the future).

Place the the insert into the shirt.

Lay hoodie flat.

In hindsight, we should have put this on a table. It takes a lot of bending over while spraying your shirt. Even though it only took less than ten minutes, it was still tiring to keep bending over the whole time.

Decide the kind of spray pattern you want.

Various sprayers leave a different kind of spray on your shirt. Some create more of a mist, creating tiny spots. Others create bigger spots on the shirt.

My daughter liked the look of mist, but really wanted bigger drip spots. She kind of squeezed the bottle to get drips and she kind of shook the bottle to drop the droplets of bleach. It may be easier to see this in my video above. Overall, it’s good to know what you want before you start.

Spray bleach and water mixture onto the hoodie.

Give it a few minutes for the bleach to show its effect. I always like to start lighter and then add more once I’m sure I want more. You can’t remove it once you’ve put it on.

Let the bleach and water mixture dry onto the shirt.

We hung the sweatshirt and let it dry for about an hour and a half.

Wash and Dry the hoodie.

Once the sweatshirt is dry, throw it into the wash machine (alone) and then dry it.

Apply the iron on letters.

Lay the hoodie on a flat surface.

Place the Cricut Easy Press mat or towel inside the sweatshirt, below where you’re going to iron on the letters.

Place the letters on the shirt. I always place my iron on about 2-3 inches down from the neck of the shirt.

I use my Cricut Easy Press to apply the letters. I love, love, love my Cricut Easy Press. I don’t set my Cricut Easy Press directly on letters. You can use a white towel. I used parchment paper.

Then, I turned my sweatshirt inside out and applied heat to the back side of the iron on. I put parchment paper on the shirt here and then applied heat for about 50 seconds.