Kiddo Craft-o's: Permanent Marker Tie Dye

The most recent project I did for my local Library craft time was permanent marker tie dyeing. This was a blast with kids of all ages, but it definitely requires some adult supervision as one of the materials is quite toxic as well as very flammable. Make sure you do this in a well ventilated area.

To Do This You Need:

permanent markers (lots of colors)

plain light fabric

elastics

plastic cups

rubbing alcohol

eye dropper

~Take a piece of cloth and place it over the open end of the plastic cup, covering the top.

~Secure it with the elastic band.

~Color on the fabric in the circle with the markers.

~When drawing is finished, take the dropper and fill it with rubbing alcohol. Slowly drop the alcohol onto the fabric.

~The marker disperses with the alcohol and spreads it all over the fabric inside the circle (sometimes out of it). 

~Let it dry. 

~Heat set the colors with an iron....or you can try a water and vinegar solution to help the colors set.

Here are the parties I linked up to (check them out and be inspired!!):

Works For Me Wednesday

  Thrifty Thursday
Flaunt It Friday
Frugalicious Friday
Just Something I Whipped Up

http://chiconashoestringdecorating.blogspot.com/2010/08/flaunt-it-friday-19.html

Pansy Picnic

Somebody has been enjoying our pansies. 

And our clover. :-) 

I don't mind too much....he hasn't figured out what a nice buffet we've provided in our vegetable garden!!

Rabbit Hutch

Isn't it just awesome what a little wood glue and some popsicle sticks can do?? Here's what I made last night. It's a little rabbit hutch for my Munchkins collection of plastic bunnies. It's the perfect place for a rabbit rendezvous.  I also made her a new lop eared bunny out of polymer clay (another medium I **love** to work with), paint, and a coating of Mod Podge for durability:

Aw. Isn't he just the sweetest? I'm not really tooting my own horn (that just doesn't sound appropriate to me) when I say he's the sweetest....I'm saying I love lop eared bunnies in any form!! Love them. 

Here are some of the lop's friends in the hutch. These guys, I did not make. I used some soft screening material to make this part of the hutch. The door also has a hinge on it, so you can swing it wide open and let the bunnies go crazy in the clover. 

Lop's pretty happy, I'd say. So is my Munchkin. :-)

Here are the parties I linked up to:

Works For Me Wednesday
Thrifty Thursday
Flaunt It Friday
Frugalicious Friday
It's Party Time Thursday 

http://chiconashoestringdecorating.blogspot.com/2010/08/flaunt-it-friday-19.html