The Tie-Dye Twist {Tutorial}

I babysit a few kids a couple days a week and every Summer we try to come up with a fun activity to do.

This Summer they wanted to tie-dye shirts, but due to the vary ages I didn't want to mess with buckets of dyes, salts and all the other mess associated with tie-dying.

So with the idea spark from a good friend of my Holly Hox and a little browsing through Hobby Lobby.

We started with plain white T-shirts and Elmer's glue. Because Elmer's glue is washable you can draw a picture onto your T-shirt and it will block the dye from coloring the T-shirt.

For Bergen's shirt I drew a butterfly...and after the Elmer's glue had dried completely I pulled out the tumble dry that I bought from Hobby Lobby.

We used each of the spray bottles and colored the shirts. After the paint had dried completely I put the shirt in the dryer for 20 minutes to heat set the paint {That's why I chose tumble dry, because the paint is completely washable until you heat set the dried paint!! Perfect for little kiddos!}

 

Then I washed the shirts in warm water and dried them on low...and behold you will have a butterfly t-shirt with a cool tie-dye twist!

This shirt is perfect for any little diva!

**Side note on time -- depending on how much Elmer's glue your little ones use it can take awhile for the glue to dry, if you need to speed things up we put them out in the sun and even used a blow dryer!**

Some of us even turned our shirts out to have a cute patriotic twist! I loved them all!