Cars Art

At Easter I always see the egg dying kits for 25 cents and think to my self "there has to be something you can do with these"  This year I picked up 5 and I am out to see what I can do with them.

 We opened them up and here is what was inside

 cars posters

 3D glasses, egg wraps, dye, egg holders

 I got out some computer paper, proped up the cars picure, then i cut the back off the egg wraps so they could be glued down easily.  I also provided glue and sizzors if they wished to cut any thing out.

The rest I left up to them to make thir own 3D art.  I would say this was 50 cents well spent.

Art Camp - Day Four - Tie Dye

Its time to tie dye!  Lets get started

First thing first baby brother needs his safety goggles.  Right?

Check - glad that's out of the way.  Okay now on to set up

Open pretty kit and read instructions

add setting tablets to warm water and soak 24 hours.

WHAT?!!!  Oops, I guess I should have read that last night.  Oh well.

 Adding water

Mixing colors

 So Fun!  We FINALLY get to touch the dye!

 Picking our colors

 Folding our shirts

 Folding, folding, folding

 Good job Noah!

 Putting his shirt in the tie dye container

 Adding colors

 This is serious business.

 Once the colors were added, I removed the shirt and placed it in a plastic bag to set over night

 Then It was Eli's turn

 Adding colors

Deep in thought

Once the tie dye sits over night, you take it out and rinse it until the water runs clear.  Then you allow it to air dry.  Here are the finished products.

 Eli's "Folded" shirt

Noah's "folded" shirt

The bulls eye method (you tie it up like this, then dye it, you can also dye it directly in the plastic bag if you wish)

This was so much fun!  Defiantly a several day project.  There are apparently 4 different ways to tie a shirt.  We have done two of the 4 ways so far.  The Folded method & the bulls eye.  The bulls eye gives the pattern that you are used to seeing tie dye in.

This will be something we repeat through the summer for sure!

Day one - Mural

Well is week 2 Day one of art camp.  This morning we painted murals

I purchased the mural paper at walmart, its 75 ft in a box.  Very nice and much more convenient than making it out to a teacher supply store

I set up the mural paper, paints, paint brushes & then called the kids.  I choose the shadiest area in the yard (we don't have trees)

 After some initial bickering about whoes side was whoms, we got started.

They asked  me to join in

Cleaning brushes and getting more paint.

And then, we needed more paper,

It was HOT, but so fun!

Rex checking out the finished work





Art Camp - Week Two

Art Camp

Our plans for the week

Day one - Mural Click Here

Day Two - Paint Balloons Click Here

Day Three - Water Balloon Wednesday

Day Four - Tie Dye

Day Five -  Cars Craft