Making a Personalized Kids Face Mask [iron On]

I set the program to print on Sport Flex Iron on Material. When you print on Iron On material for the Cricut Maker, remember to set the mirroring to ON.

Place the Sport Flex Iron On onto the mat (shiny side down) and then start the cut.

Once the Cricut machine cuts the sports flex material, you’ll weed out the excess material. You can use a weeding tool, or just use a straight pin to poke at, pull up, and remove the excess iron on material. You’ll be left with the names. Cut these out so that you have the names on individual strips.

Lay the name onto the mask. Then make sure the alignment is straight and position it where you want it on the mask.

I used my Cricut Easy Press to press the name onto the mask. There’s no published recommendation for SportFlex iron on for the mask material, so I played with various settings. The one that worked best was to press at 315 degrees for 30 seconds.

TIP: Don’t press the SportsFlex iron on material at a higher temperature because it’ll curl up and peel off. I actually messed up a few times and then I did press it at high heat because it allowed me to peel off the name I had messed up.

Once you press the name on properly, peel the transparent backing while the paper is still warm to hot. *Do not wait for it to cool*

When you peel the backing, be sure to do it by folding the backing close to the material so you don’t pull too hard against the letters because you don’t want to peel them off.

Here’s how the mask and lettering looks right after peeling off the backing. A cool personalized face mask.

As an added way of securing the letters to the mask, I then covered the letters with a towel.

Then I pressed it again, very briefly, just because it made me feel like I was really making sure to get those letters adhered to the personalized face mask.

The personalized kids face masks looked great, but I wanted to add something more. So I also created an additional decal.

So, here’s how the personalized girls lacrosse face masks turned out. I added the school logo for the girls and added a lacrosse stick iron on logo for the coach’s gift.

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Personalized face mask for kids using Iron On Paper

Iron On Paper is simple and easy to use with your home printer and household iron.

For this process you’ll create the name in a word processing program, such as Microsoft Word. Print it out on your inkjet printer.

For this type of iron on, I recommend using a white mask rather than a black one. The reason is that iron on transfers for light fabrics have a transparent layer whereas those for dark fabrics do not. This means that if you use the iron on for light fabric, you can print in black or another color and it’ll stand out against the mask. If you cut the name out of the iron on for the dark fabric, any white areas that you don’t cut out will still show.

Once you print the name onto the iron on paper, you’ll cut it out. Iron your mask on a hard surface to heat it it up a bit, then you’ll ask the iron on paper as per the instructions and iron it on.

It’s as easy as that!

More Team Gifts

If you’d like more ideas for personalized team or kids gifts, then check out the other ideas I've used:

Lacrosse Headbands

Girls Lacrosse Hair ties

Sports themed Scrunchies

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