The girls and I decided
to test drive a new art project
before the Frog Princess'
"Rainbow Art and Science"
Birthday Party.
I first saw this great idea over at
We did tie-dyeing with
permanent markers
and rubbing alcohol.
Similar to the results you can get with coffee filters,
magic markers, and water
(for those of you crafting with younger children)
The results were a huge hit and we DID end up
doing hankie tie-dyeing
as one of our craftivities (crafty activity)
with her friends at her birthday party this weekend.
as one of our craftivities (crafty activity)
with her friends at her birthday party this weekend.
1. Start with a glass jar or small juice glass
(we used glass baby food jars)
2. Stretch your fabric
(in this case, we used clean white, cotton handkerchiefs)
around the mouth of the jar or glass and
secure with a rubber band.
3. Draw concentric circles on your fabric, with
permanent markers. Mix up your colors!
You can make solid lines OR dotted lines (each makes a different effect)
4. When you've got all of your circles on there (as many as you want)
ask an adult
to apply a few drops of rubbing alcohol
to the center of the design
with an eye dropper.
The end result is pretty cool and the alcohol evaporates/ dries quickly.
We decided to use ours as
a funky blanket for our dolls,
I think they look like cool hippie rainbow flowers.
They would be cute if we added stems and leaves to them.
I'm dyeing to make a flower quilt this way!
I have no idea if these will wash out if we launder them...
All I know is this project was
a huge hit with the kids at
her 7th birthday party
and the parents got a good chuckle
out of a table full of 6 and 7 year olds raising their hands and
saying, "I'm ready for more alcohol!"
(one of our guest's rainbow tie-dye)
More party details to follow!
15 comments:
When I first saw the picture I thought it was a cake. In you could do that to a cake would be really cool.
Tiffany
http://liferequiresmorechocolate.blogspot.com/
What a neat idea!
Please be sure to post a little update when you find out if it washes out! I recently bought a bunch of white dresses, tops, and skirts at a consignment sale with the intent of dying them fairly soon. This would be a fun technique to do to one of the tops!!
If you don't feel like updating, will you please e-mail me to let me know? yoothesecond at yahoo.com
cool idea!
I wonder if this would work with fabric paint markers? I will let you know what I discover. Thanks for sharing! This looks fantastic!!!
Such a neat idea!
Jen
What a great craft activity! I'm going to get some rubbing alcohol tomorrow.I can't wait ti try it out.
These are just gorgeous and look so easy to do. Thanks for this wonderful idea!
Love this idea- and so easy to do!!!
That is so cute and so fun! I love that idea!
you have been busy! Love these hankies - will have to make in my sewing club! thanks for sharing.
amie
fun idea! We did a cooking party for my daughter's 12th. I premade 10 aprons and the girls used fabric paint pens and fabric markers to decorate them. It was a big hit! Color just makes everyone happy!
Please update - did you discover if these are truly permanent? Or did your designs wash out?
We'd love to try this, but on shirts, so we really don't want them to wash out!
Permanent markers generally are permanent on cloth. It doesn't hurt to iron them or throw them into the dryer for a few minutes to heat set them though.
Loved your tie dye idea so much I featured them on my blog, thank you!
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