Sunday, November 18, 2012

Colourful Friday - Tie dyeing

 As I have mentioned before, I home school my children, and on Fridays we have a couple of families that get together and have some fun...
We do all sorts...afrikaans,recorder,rhymes,poems,stories,lapbooks, games,circle time, lunch and hand crafts...
This is the beauty of home schooling, we can share and support one another...
and our children are building beautiful friendships...as are us moms...

Well my part on the Fridays is the hand crafts...fun fun fun...
This week we tried our hand at tie dyeing...

...Take a look...


 Each child came armed with a fresh white T-shirt...

We used:
colours - daffodil, atlantic blue, magenta and protea red
Salt
Warm water
elastic bands
marbles
The items to be dyed must be pre-washed and wet before dyeing.
Make up the dye as per instructions.
We doubled the amount of salt  - (they say by doing this, the colours will be intensified)
We split the four colours into 8 dyes baths 
Each child took their T-shirt and twisted it, tied it and knotted it with elastic bands
If you tie a marble into the fabric, you get very cool 'dots' once dyed...
Take a look here, there are some lovely tie dye ideas...
Each child decided on a colour scheme for their T-shirt, some only wanted one colour, 
others more..
And into the dye they went, they sat and stirred them around for about 10 minutes, then we added the fixative to the dyes (as per instructions)
Then they have to sit in the bath for 45 minutes...so we had a break for some of this...


  Tie dye cake...
this is the basic vanilla cake recipe, divided into 5 bowls, dash of food colourings added, we used red, blue, yellow and made purple and green.
Then we iced it with a plain butter icing and my knight and his cute sister had fun decorating it...
This was a treat from our family to these special friends of ours...  
 

Back to the dyeing...
we then removed the T-shirts from the dye and removed  the elastics and marbles...
then rinse, rinse, rinse and rinse some more...
Those that wanted another colour then tied and twisted their shirts up again and back into a new colour dye bath... 
Take a look at our beautiful hand made original T-shirts... 

we will definitely be doing this again...

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