Originally Posted by fabric whisperer
you CAN use the regular acrylic paints ~ BUT you have to mix them with "textile medium" 1:1 ratio I think. Craft stores sell it, so you can make the regular little bottles of paint into fabric paints (usually cheaper than buying actual fabric paints)
This is what we did when my daughter was in kindergarden. It worked out well. The most important thing I learned was to have the kids wash their hands BEFORE they made their prints as well as after (obviously). I had one of the prints develop some weird brown spotting. Dirty little hand!