We bought some cheep $5 solid colour t-shirts from Target and got busy! Our first project was making the kids St. Patrick's day shirts. We cut out the shapes and words we wanted from Freezer paper and ironed them on the shirt. We then sprayed bleach on the shirt from a little spray bottle. We let the bleach sit on the shirt long enough to get the colour as light as we wanted. We then rinsed the shirt out and washed it. After it dried we added some spray on glitter for a little bling!
One of our other projects was tye dying...Elsie put lots of little rubber bands on a pink shirt...or rather Elsie played with the rubber bands!
We then soaked the pink shirt in purple Rit Dye. My fingers were very colourful after working with the dye...next time I will be wearing rubber gloves...live and learn, I guess!
Elsie always has fun helping me with projects...and it was her job to make sure the shirt was completely covered with purple dye...so she swished the shirt around with a wooden skewer stick! This will be so much easier to do in the summer...we have plans to make some colourful shirts this summer outside!
For James St. Patrick's Day shirt we used a white shirt and ironed the freezer paper design on it...then rather than using bleach we used a spray bottle of green Rit Dye. We added some rubber bands to the arm sleeves for a tye dye look to the sleeves...
Here is Elsie's finished St. Patrick's shirt...I know Green is the traditional colour...but a girl just has to have pink!
This is my favorite shirt yet...I have such a thing for skull and cross bones it is crazy! It looks so boyish...some people seem to think it is a bit goth looking...I think they are crazy! This shirt was made with a black shirt and bleach...for some reason the bleach turned the black orange!
James finished St. Patrick's day shirt...
The last one...Freezer paper stencil shirt. This one is favorite also! Now I only have one shirt left to do...then I need to stock up on shirt again! Such a fun little hobby...
1 comment:
cute! neat ideas...
i love the skull & cross bones t-shirt - very stylish and cute. it's adorable on him. very boyish, for sure. and of course the dirt bike t-shirt --- ya just can't go wrong with one like that! and did you realize you transposed two of the letters in the word "irish"...but oh well, it's still cute.
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