Week 7 Summary - Tie Dye

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During Week 7 we have been doing tie-dye with pillow cases and painting on fabric as part of our Antarctica study.

The first step is choosing which design of tie dye you want to do.

We all chose our designs, some scrunching their pillowcase up and some making circles or using pegs to make stripes.

Aimee used a fan fold and pegs to end up with a striped tie dye

Te Iwa tied lots of little circles

Next we had to choose an Antarctica animal, a penguin or a whale to paint onto a small piece of calico fabric.

Jordyn paints her penguin

Ben adds some background detail to his penguin picture

Then we put our designs in the blue dye and waited for the dye to soak in.

Emily gives the dye a stir to ensure it covers everyone's pillowcases evenly

Hanging the pillow cases out on our balcony to dry

When the pillowcases had dried we needed to iron them and also the fabric painted picutres needed to be ironed for 2 minutes to seal the paint. Our animal paintings were then sewed on with the help of Miss Lythgoe's Mum and Ben's Mum.

Jackson enjoyed ironing so much he wants to do all the ironing at home Mum!

Connor is another keen contender for weekly ironing duties!

Trish helped Heke complete his pillowcase by sewing the whale painting on

Josh waits patiently as Kate sews on his painting

Here are some examples:

Aimee's,Emily's and Renee's Tie-dye

Heke's Tie-Dye

Written by Connor N