Christmas T-shirts
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
As a finale in December we like to celebrate with a reflective concert of our year. This entails sitting down with the children and having a brainstorm about their favourite songs, poems and rhymes that we’ve enjoyed together throughout the year.
So that we have some cohesiveness as a group (and look extra special) clothes-wise, the children are invited to bring in a T-shirt each to dye which they will wear on the “concert” day.
We set out the eye droppers, as we did recently with coloured water, (see our eye dropper fun post on November 25th) but this time we used clothing dye in the water.
Plain coloured T-shirts without colourful logos work best and it also makes quite a difference to the end result if the T-shirt is old or new and still has quite a bit of dressing in it or not.
The children were very keen to create their own masterpiece and soon set up a queuing system!
Depending on the enthusiasm of the different children, many interesting results flowed from their eager fingers.
Sometimes the dye soaked into the fabric straight away …
… and other times it sat on top for a while before soaking in …
… and sometimes it just ran over the surface and we needed to dribble the excess dye off.
With our current hot Melbourne weather the T-shirts dried in no time at all!
Either way, they look interesting, original and very beautiful. On the day of our reflection concert, they will wear their own unique T-shirt, perhaps with some sort of Christmassy head gear. All-in-all the children will look spectacular!!
