Comments on: Easy Peasy Batik Dyed Shirts – Summer Craft!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:09:52 +0000

I love to tie dye and after seeing your spin on it I tried it with a friend. I love this idea and it was a lot of fun. I’d love to show you the pics of the ones I made for my 4 kids so you can see what you you “helped” us craft lol

By: Jennie

Jennie — Mon, 31 May 2010 02:40:37 +0000

how does the spray paint on the shirts dry? is it sticky and hard? and how well does it stay? that sounds a little quicker and we have spray paint already!

By: Jennie

Jennie — Mon, 31 May 2010 02:37:37 +0000

I am very excited to try this with my kids at work…(k-5th grade) it looks like a fairly simple craft for them to do! I would like to make 1 to wear right now but sadly its almost 11 and I dont have the materials so…there is always tomorrow!

By: debra

debra — Fri, 28 May 2010 21:10:48 +0000

This is so cool! Gonna do this with the grandkids! But…will these continue to ‘bleed’ when you wash them? I love crafts, especially easy ones.

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 26 May 2010 22:39:07 +0000

Awesome!! I do crafts with our kiddos every year at VBS and I started doing t-shirts with masking tape, or foam shapes, or cut out plastic mesh letters/shapes, and then spray paint (outside of course too); with our older kids with very similar effects. (It’s nice that you can lay these down and use non-stickable objects.) They dry in minutes and you turn it over and do the other side. (It’s like the “cool thing” the jr. high kids get to do that no one else does at VBS to help get older kids interested in coming to VBS). Now we have tons of tweens that want to come to VBS so they get to make the “cool shirts” at VBS with Mrs. J. I’m going to adopt the spray bottle and glue method this year, and do them early in the week and I’m going to wash their shirts for them so they’ll have them ready by Friday so they can all wear them to our closing ceremony on Saturday with a cookout and inflatable bump n jumps. I’M VERY EXCITED AND THE KIDS WILL BE TOOOOOOO!!!

By: April

April — Wed, 26 May 2010 22:02:18 +0000

Very cool post! I remember tie dying my very first shirts when I was in grade school, my mom & I actually did them in the washing machine, lol. I remember taking rubber bands around the part I wanted designs they came out really cool I made some for all my friends. This sounds like so much fun and I’d love to get my 3 kiddos matching shirts, thanks for all the great ideas Christy you are the best!

By: Darlene Ross

Darlene Ross — Wed, 26 May 2010 18:49:54 +0000

Neat project. However, think twice about putting a youngster’s name on their shirts. My daughter could have been abucted when she was about 5 years old because she was wearing a baseball cap with her name on it. An older man called out to her and said “Sue, come here a minute”. She thought he must have known her because he knew her name. She started to walk towards him but luckily I was close by and called her back to me. Needless to say, that cap went into the trash that very afternoon. Just a word of caution!

By: Lisa Botts

Lisa Botts — Wed, 26 May 2010 16:23:15 +0000

OMG! I just read this again (saw it last year) and realized you used the word “hosepipe”. I get made fun of all the time for using that word and I mean by people born and raised here in Chitlin (Chilton) county, smack dab in the middle of the state! I’m so glad to find a kindred soul that talks like I do.

By: Maryb Erwin

Maryb Erwin — Wed, 26 May 2010 16:13:33 +0000

A similar project I have done is to buy some dark colored t-shirts from a thrift store and load a spray bottle with bleach. Put a piece of cardboard in between the front and back. I have my students cut out letters (or those plastic magnetic letters work well, too) and other shapes-bugs, animals, etc. Arrange the letters and animals on the shirt and spray with the bleach. Everywhere the bleach hits it lightens up. Where the letters and animals are, the color stays dark. After it dries you can turn it over and do the same thing on the front. Wash and viola, cut new t-shirts!

By: Vicky

Vicky — Wed, 26 May 2010 15:51:24 +0000

Thanks for posting this, looks like something my kids would love to do!