Friday, July 17, 2009

Show & Tell Friday -- Patriotic Tie Dye T-Shirts

We often get the children new flag shirts for the 4th of July but this year I thought it would be fun to have them make tie-dye t-shirts. We looked online for designs and ideas and they all agreed they liked a bulls-eye design. I bought white shirts and a tie-dye kit with an easy squirt bottle method. I don't know that this will be as long lasting of dye and the colors weren't as intense but it was easy and fun to do. I even let Missy do her own. The only thing they didn't like was waiting for the finished shirt which was 6 - 8 hours. They also would prefer a rainbow colored shirt but we'll save that for another day.

Pete and Re-Pete squirting the dye onto their shirts.

Even Missy could handle this and surprisingly with little mess.

The gang at the parade including my nephew who we also made a shirt for. We had quite a few comments that day -- I suppose we do anytime they are dressed alike.

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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh that is soooo cute! What a great idea. :)

-Dusti

www.kimmelkids4.blogspot.com

Haflingerhorses said...

Those shirts are beautiful! What a great idea.

You sure have a bunch of good looking kids, there.

Antoinette

SuzyScribbles said...

OK, it took me a minute to figure out just what those little guys (and gal) were doing. LOL


Oh, but the finished product looks adorable! Great idea!

4sweetums said...

What great shirts. They are vey cute and so are the cuties inside the shirts.

Blessings,

Dawn

momofsix said...

Oh, I love the idea. I have never seen squirt bottles for tie dying. I have only seen the cumbersome method of boiling buckets of water-messy. You make it look easy and fun. I especially love the finished product. That is just cute.

Canadagirl said...

That is sooooooooooo COOL ! I will have to do that next year but just do red and white for Canada Day. [0= That way I won't loose the kids, LOL.


I just love your S&T's thank you for sharing with us. ((hugs))

sahmto4orMore said...

Your shirts turned out beautifully!

Great job!

basketflat said...

That looks like a really fun project. They are tie dyed and they are still matching! The group photo is really great.


Cathy

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