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100 Days of School LEGO Shirt – FREE Pattern!

January 25, 2017 By: Michele McDonald22 Comments

This 100 Days Smarter is perfect for your LEGO-loving little one’s school celebration of 100 Days of School! Grab the FREE cute file!

This 100 Days Smarter is perfect for your LEGO-loving little one's school celebration of 100 Days of School! Grab the FREE cute file!
Our 100th Day of School is approaching! My sons’ school loves to celebrate and this year, instead of dressing like they are 100 years old as we’ve done in the past, they want the kids to wear 100 Days of School shirts! My boys LOVE LEGOS (that is SUCH an understatement!) so I knew we needed to incorporate them into our shirt theme. I came up with this fun LEGO heat transfer pattern that uses, you guessed it, 100 LEGOS to spell out!

I’m sharing the free cut file with you guys today and all the deets on how to thriftily use all this different colored heat transfer vinyl (affiliate link) to create a unified pattern.

This 100 Days Smarter is perfect for your LEGO-loving little one's school celebration of 100 Days of School! Grab the FREE cute file!
This design is made up of exactly 100 LEGO bricks, perfect for celebrating the 100th Day of School!
SVG file
Studio3 file
PNG file

This is a great scrap-busting project so gather any primary-colored heat transfer vinyl (affiliate link) that you have been stashing.

NOTE: Remember to always flip images horizontally for heat transfer projects!

This 100 Days Smarter is perfect for your LEGO-loving little one's school celebration of 100 Days of School! Grab the FREE cute file!
The easiest way to keep track of the colors you want to use on the pattern is to print out the design and color in the bricks. I had 6 HTV colors on hand to use, but you can use and many or few colors as you like.

You will need to alter the image slightly in order print, and I have some step by step directions for you.

This 100 Days Smarter is perfect for your LEGO-loving little one's school celebration of 100 Days of School! Grab the FREE cute file!
The the line thickness of a Silhouette Studio file is 0, so while you can see the pattern on your computer screen, it will actually print absolutely nothing.

1) The first thing to do is resize the paper size to 8 1/2 x 11 to fit your printer paper size. Rotate the image to fit on the paper, resize if necessary. You can always resize again when you’re actually ready to cut the images.

2) Open the Line Color Window in the toolbar and change the line color to black (this step is totally optional, but I usually do this because 1) black is easier to see on paper and 2) you have more black toner in your printer than any other color)

This 100 Days Smarter is perfect for your LEGO-loving little one's school celebration of 100 Days of School! Grab the FREE cute file!
3) Open the Line Style Window in the toolbar, set the Line Style to the solid line and set the Line Thickness to 1.5.

Now you can easily print the image and color in the bricks so you can keep up with the color pattern.

This 100 Days Smarter is perfect for your LEGO-loving little one's school celebration of 100 Days of School! Grab the FREE cute file!
There are a couple of options to cut this design. The first one will use a lot more HTV, but will be quicker. The second uses MUCH less HTV (scrap-buster!) but takes a little longer. The end result for both will be an impossibly cute LEGO shirt!

OPTION 1: Use the printed pattern as a guide and delete all bricks except of one color (example: if you’re cutting red HTV, delete all bricks that will be any other color other than red). Leave the red bricks in place, flip image horizontally, and cut the bricks out. Click UNDO (or Ctrl Z) until you return to the original image then delete all bricks but those of the second color you are cutting. Repeat this process until all the bricks are cut. Then you simply need to lay down the vinyl, one color at a time, and iron it onto the shirt. The bricks will all align perfectly.

OPTION 2: Follow the first step from above. Pick the color you want to start with, delete all other bricks of another color, flip horizontally, and cut. For ALL OTHER BRICK COLORS, select just those bricks and line them up tightly in the top left corner of the cutting mat in the program. Instead of taking up so much square space leaving the bricks in the original design, you can cut them all in a very small area making this great for using up scrap HTV.

In option 2, when cutting the other brick colors other than the original first where they are left in the original design, you want to cut all the way through the HTV (plastic, too) rather than just the HTV itself. To do this, set the CUT THICKNESS to 25.

As you can see in the photo above, I used OPTION 2 for my design. I cut the yellow HTV (shown white above because it’s the back side) first in the original pattern and removed the excess vinyl. I cut all other bricks on scrap HTV and deepend the cut thickness to 25 so that each brick was an individual piece. I added the other color bricks to the original design in yellow by following the printed guide and simply lining up the “bricks” and laying them face down (plastic side down) on the sticky-backed plastic of the original design.

This 100 Days Smarter is perfect for your LEGO-loving little one's school celebration of 100 Days of School! Grab the FREE cute file!
Continue adding “bricks” to the original pattern until the image is complete. Then simply flip over and iron on to the shirt.

This 100 Days Smarter is perfect for your LEGO-loving little one's school celebration of 100 Days of School! Grab the FREE cute file!
Peel plastic back while still warm from the iron. Some of the extra plastic from the bricks may come off with the large sheet of plastic, and simply peel off others that do not.

This 100 Days Smarter is perfect for your LEGO-loving little one's school celebration of 100 Days of School! Grab the FREE cute file!
The final result!

This 100 Days Smarter is perfect for your LEGO-loving little one's school celebration of 100 Days of School! Grab the FREE cute file!
These little guys love their shirts! They even double checked me to be sure there was indeed 100 LEGO bricks on their shirts. Our 100th day is actually tomorrow so they can’t wait to wear them!

 

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  1. MSG says

    January 29, 2020 at 1:31 PM

    You can use β€œprint and cut” heat transfer vinyl and cut a single piece as opposed to cutting each LEGO piece individually. Incase anyone needs a time saver project.

    Reply
  2. Donna says

    February 7, 2019 at 1:06 PM

    Thanks for sharing! I have a cricut and the blocks around “smarter” did not fill in so I tweaked it to say “We’ve Lego of 100 days of school” and scattered some legos around so it still had 100 legos on it. It looks great!

    Reply
  3. yari says

    January 31, 2019 at 8:48 PM

    how can I use this on the cricut ? for some reason its not letting me do the bottom legos with the words “smarter” it won’t let me fill in the color of the legos

    Reply
    • Michele McDonald says

      February 3, 2019 at 2:36 PM

      Since it’s an SVG file you should be able to open it with your Cricut software. However, I’m a SIlhouette user so unfortunately I can’t help you much after that!

      Reply
  4. Pooja Jain says

    January 30, 2019 at 6:30 AM

    This is so cute. I have never worked with vinyl sheets. Is it not possible to print the colored bricks on white vinyl and cut directly the whole image instead of each brick?

    Reply
    • Michele McDonald says

      January 30, 2019 at 11:33 AM

      There is such a thing as printable vinyl (http://shrsl.com/11r3s – affiliate link) that you could print the design on then cut around it.

      Reply
      • brittany bending says

        January 18, 2020 at 2:09 PM

        I just counted and there are 100 πŸ™‚

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  5. Amy says

    January 17, 2019 at 3:49 PM

    Super cute! I’m making this for my son. But in classic lego-obsessed kid fashion, he counted them and there are only 99. I verified by numbering each of the lego squares on the shirt. Only 99. πŸ˜‰

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    • Michele McDonald says

      January 18, 2019 at 8:44 AM

      You made me paranoid! πŸ˜€ I just counted twice and got 100 both times. πŸ˜‰

      Reply
  6. Randa Chapman says

    January 31, 2018 at 7:58 PM

    Is this cut file still free or do you have a way I can purchase it? I’ve been searching for something like this and its perfect! Although, my 6 year old would prefer to actually glue 100 real legos πŸ˜‰

    Reply
    • Michele McDonald says

      February 1, 2018 at 9:44 AM

      It’s still free! You can find a link to the SVG file under the second photo. πŸ™‚

      Reply
  7. kendell says

    May 18, 2017 at 1:00 AM

    An excellent idea thanks so much for sharing – it is really appreciated

    Reply
  8. Michele Morin says

    February 4, 2017 at 5:15 AM

    Amazing!

    Reply
  9. Ashlee says

    February 2, 2017 at 7:02 PM

    How did you do the smarter part? I have the file in my sil studio but I can’t for the life of me figure out how you did the font in the middle with the two separate logo colors. I have the Leto font so I tried welding it and subtracting it but that only leaves me with a solid colored Leto instead of the 2 separate ones. Help!

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    • Ashlee says

      February 2, 2017 at 7:12 PM

      Nevermind. I downloaded the font but didn’t close out studio and open it back up with the file so it put the font in a regular font.
      Thank you for the file! My little man is going to love his new shirt tomorrow!

      Reply
      • Ashlee says

        February 2, 2017 at 7:19 PM

        Ugh it’s still not working. The letters aren’t connected to the Legos so it won’t let me even change them colors to cut with the rest of them.

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        • Michele McDonald says

          February 2, 2017 at 8:48 PM

          Oh no, Ashlee! I’ve only just seen your comments. I have uploaded a new version of the cut file that hopefully has the LEGO font not as a font but as part of the design itself.

          Reply
          • Ashlee says

            February 2, 2017 at 9:49 PM

            Thank you!!!

  10. Melissa Ruddy says

    January 30, 2017 at 5:05 PM

    So glad I saw your post. It reminded my kids have the 100 day of school activities coming up. Great idea!

    Reply
  11. Vanessa says

    January 30, 2017 at 3:37 PM

    What an adorable idea and I love how you created that pattern on the shirts. Thank you for sharing at Dishing it and Digging it link party.

    Reply
  12. Charlotte Burkholder says

    January 30, 2017 at 9:46 AM

    Nice! I have a lego lover too. When we had our 100 days shirts I just did fabric paint smily faces. You are way cooler! Thanks for sharing at Family Joy Blog linkup.

    Reply
  13. Krystal Sadler says

    January 29, 2017 at 5:29 PM

    What an adorable idea!! Your boys are so cute! Thanks for sharing with us at Share the Wealth Sundays!

    Reply

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