Tie-Dye Fun!

Today the Tel Aviv class tie-dyed out shirts for Shalom day!! After our week long investigation of color mixing, the class had the daunting task of picking a color for the T shirts. We had every member of the class pick the color they wanted. We had two votes for blue, purple and orange. Then we had another vote where you had to pick one of the three. After that we had a third vote that was a blue-orange run off and the winner was…ORANGE!

Before school today Hannah and I experimented with mixing red, pink and yellow together to make different shades of orange. We tested them after we added a bit more of a color.  We mixed red and yellow and I would ask Hannah what color it was and she would respond Orange. Then we mixed pink and yellow and I asked her what color it was and it was also orange! It was neat to look at all the shades of a color and we found it was very tricky to make the exact same color two times in a row. We picked two oranges we like and used them as tie-dye for the class.

Tie-dying was great fun and the class loved going outside for some messy art fun. Each child had their own technique some would stand back and spray their shirts while the shirt rested on the ground and others would hold the shirt in their hand and very carefully add the paint to cover any and all white spaces. Since we had two different oranges they had to take turns to make sure that each kid got a chance with both colors. It was extra hard to take turns when there were three kids and two bottles. Even though their excitement they were able to wait and they enjoyed watching their friends tie-dye as well.  Tomorrow we will take off the rubber bands and see the neat patterns and designs we have created.

We can’t wait!