Thursday, August 19, 2010

Tye Dye Party

Making the Shirts

Final product - and other pictures

The Pinata

On August 17 we decided to have a Tye Dye Party. We posted an invite on facebook and then whoever wanted to come came. We had several friends come. It was pretty simple. We bought some kits in the craft section of WalMart, which were little squirt bottles that you dribbled the die on to the shirt. They had direction inside on how to prepare the shirt for the dye and place rubber bands on it. After everyone had taken a turn we broke a pinata. The kids were excited about this one. It was fun to watch their enthusiasm. Not as many of them were excited about dying their shirts. Anyway, I made a Tye Dye shirt pinata out of a cereal box. It turned out pretty good and actually the kids got to have wack at it a bit before it broke and there was a scramble for the goods inside. I am still finding little bits of candy around my house from that adventure. It is my fault though in making a pinata. It is all good. Anyway after everyone left and waiting 6-8 hours we washed our shirts and got some pretty good designs out of them. It was a lot of fun and I hope all who came had a good time.

3 comments:

The HousewifeTravels said...

We loved it! Thanks for having us. The following day we all wore our shirts on a date together.

Verity said...

What a fun idea! Glad you had fun! :)

theloulie said...

It was a lot of fun, we'd like to do it again. My son loves his shirt and has worn it for 3 days in a row. Tyler and Mackay's shirts turned out good!