Tie Dye

Tie Dye Session

Thursday, June 30

10:00 a.m. - Noon

$5/tie dyer

I will provide rubber bands, dyes, rubber gloves, instructions for rinsing/washing.

YOU provide up to two articles to tie dye (t-shirt, pillow case, leggings, handkerchiefs, socks......trust me we have dyed a lot of stuff in our time!  Check label.....you want 100% cotton or something close to 100%. 

We have had success dying things that have spandex. 

Technically the dyes will not take to anything but cotton,

but you want something that your child will want to wear again and again!)

Also, since you will be playing with "dyes" wear old clothes, it is a very messy process.

Siblings welcome!

Girls will be on their way to earning the Art to Wear Badge

....thinking about a Henna party for another activity for the Art to Wear Badge later this summer!

Bubbles!!!

I promised I would share a super fun bubble recipe and here it is.

Homemade Bubble Solution

(note:  I have researched a couple of recipes on line, tried them out and this is a good compromise solution.  You will have to tweak on your end.  Note to self....windy days make this a challenging activity!)

12 cups purified water

5 cups of uncolored and unscented dishwashing soap

(this is darn near impossible to find.  I have tried dawn and palmolive)

1/2 cup glycerin (I found a bottle for $7.99 at Meijer in their pharmacy/health section)

Bubble Wands

2 wooden dowels

2 eye screws

4 washers

Cotton String

Drill a hole in the end of the dowel.

Screw the eye hook into the hole until it is secure

Cut two pieces of string: 

For large bubble wand:  100" and 70"

For medium bubble wand:  70" and 35"

put 4 washers on the long piece of string

(this will act as a weight...it will make sense when you start making ginormous bubbles!)

put the ends of both pieces of string through one of the eye hooks and tie a knot.  Do the same on the other eye hook.  Now you should have one long string and a shorter one that runs from one dowel to the other.

Just an FYI... a neighbor has asked Davis to make a bubble wand, so he is in the business to make bubble wands.  $5 per wand if you would rather just get one done.  They are easy to make, don't get me wrong, we just have a neighbor that doesn't want to fiddle with it.

How to make Giant Bubbles:

Take your bucket outside (I store my solution in a smaller container and

then pour into a plastic tub for bubble making time)

Put the end of the dowels in the bucket and the string should be submerged.

Bring both ends of the dowels up from the bubble solution, together until about chest high.

Then separate the dowels by pulling them outward so the string makes a triangle...pointing down. 

The washers will weigh the center of the bottom string down.

Step backward quickly so that the air goes through the bubble solution

between the dowels and makes a bubble.

It may take a couple of times, but have no fear you will be wowing yourselves with gigantic bubbles.