We finally did our tie-dye project in the days before July 4th. Our red, white and blue concoctions had some good and bad points but we proudly put them on for the holiday and generally dorked out in matching shirts and khaki shorts.

When we do this again, we'll definitely use the Tulip branded stuff, specifically the One Step Fashion Dye.



All you had to do was soak the clothes in normal water and fill the bottles up with water. VERY simple stuff, which is great in working with kids.



I tried too hard to do the 'old school' style rubber band wrapped tie dye design (where you rolling up the shirt and bind it in sections with about 6 rubber bands). That would have worked super well if we had used the old school tie-dye buckets of dye.



It was less efficient and harder than needed since we had squirt bottles. So know that you can do the rubber band style or you can just let the kids squirt on a design on their liking on the shirt flat.

The funny thing is all my hard work ended up not being on MY shirt but my husband's shirt. His turned out well while mine ended up looking like an abstract art canvas. Hayley called it that, which is pretty cool that she gets art forms but I digress. She decided to just speckle the heck out of hers and what we thought was Jeff's but ended up as mine. Even messy they were fun and cute. She loved making them and we are definitely going to do it again.

Plus we didn't even make a big mess. We lined the deck with garbage bags and paper towels on top. We just rolled it all up and tossed it when we were done.



And I'll have you know the people working at a local grocery store thought we were very cool in our shirts.