Dream, I stretched the tshirt over a really big book so that it didn't go through to the other side and put it on the floor. I had the paint in a pieplate beside the tshirt and had the child hold onto my kitchen cupboards while I manipulated their feet from the paint to the tshirt to the soapy water bucket all side by side. You have to also make sure you just have a nice little smooth layer of paint so you get smooth coverage. I did some test runs on some paper before we did the tshirt.

Painting the hands and feet works well too but the patience level of the children is something you have to consider because that takes longer.