Tie Dye Experiment

For Father's Day, Nathan's school class is creating a "Rock Star" music video to send home on DVD with each Dad on "Father Fun Day".  This last week Nathan was supposed to go to school looking like a rock star and having practiced dancing to pop music at home for the filming.  (What homework!) 

We decided to try making a tie dye shirt for him to wear.  It ended up being a fun project for us to do with our Grandma and Grandpa while they were visiting this last week. 

At JoAnns these days they sell several tie dye kits.  With a 40% off coupon we were able to get one for about $6.  We used it to do two shirts and a onsie (once we started...everyone needed one).  But, the kits come with everything you need and can do up to 8 shirts.

After carefully considering our options using instructions provided...

We put elastics on the shirts and then with the dye in squeezable bottles executed the plan.

It's so fun that really Greg is definitely the most creative one in our family.  When he's willing to get into these types of things there are always great results!