July has been a crazy mix of doing school "lite"(Reading, English, Language arts, and Math for Ying and Yang, and Phonics, sight words, and math for Hulk.) and crazy summer type stuff. We've been to the lake, exploded stuff in the driveaway, and done cool art. Our favorite art were theses cool "fireworks" shirts we made with a group at our local library the week of the 4th.
First, a clean white shirt and some permanent markers. Draw on the shirt. All the kids did very different things. Some did Dots like Yang's here, & others drew full deigns with flowers, heart & stars. After you have your design, place a plate underneath the design and then slowly drop/splash/pour 70-90% rubbing alcohol on it and watch the magic.
Depending on your design, and technique in applying the alcohol the color will bleed and make a new pattern. Yang found that small drops of alcohol in the middle of group of dots gave her the best "firework" effect. The more alcohol you add the more bleeding you will get and less is more as the bleeding continues for 10-20 min after application until it fully evaporated. Some of the older girls in the group had down very darkly filled flowers and poured the alcohol on and got a water color type effect. We will definitely be experimenting with this again. After the shirts are dry don't forget run them on high in the dryer for 20 min, and the run a hot dry iron over them to fix the color!
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| Yang modeling her shirt at the fireworks! |
We also did a little crazy science too... It all started as making volcanoes, and progressed to making colored cornstarch to throw like at the color runs. Hence the fancy safety goggles. Hulk just like to put his feet in the powder....
Hulk working on phonics, while Ying and Yang trudge through English.....
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