Tie Dye?....

Safety 1st!

Okay, so I grew up in the Pacific Northwest. Butteville Oregon to be specific. We spent all summer outside doing outlandishly fun things! The PN is totally into the great outdoors, and "camp" may have very well been defined by the camps we attended as kids. We went to snowboard camp, windsurf camp, Volleyball camp...we even had outdoor school camp in the 5Th grade, during the school year!!! As a high School'er I was a camp councilor. Camp was awesome. Crafts, races, skills training, archery, water balloon fights, brown bag lunches with the stuff mom would never buy...I totally remember doing tie dye t-shirts at least once. Well at the Shoe herd summer camp, I wanted to share as much of these things as I could with my kiddos and my nephews! But seriously Tie dye? Crazy hippie colors for my very outdoors man cowboys; hmmmmmm, what to do? Oh, but for virtually every question there is an answer. And heck why not combine 2 things into one, I always loved the analogy "killing 2 birds with 1 stone," and I am in a suburban time crunch. So here it is: target practice and "not so tie dye" shirts.

These are the completed project for the biggest and littlest campers!!

Ready Aim Fire! Hey! Aim inside the picture....not outside! Oh and looking at your shirt totally helps! Travis won target practice... The little ones were too busy giggling and talking to eachother ;) Too stinking cute. They wanted to wear their shirts as soon as they were dry. Be sure to wash them before you let you little loves wear them.
Prepped and ready for blasting!
Thanks Jenny for the Spiffy cartridge! We are totally putting it to use this week!

What you need:
Cheap disposable squirt guns
Trash bags (plastic)
Eye protection
Dark cotton t shirts (good ol walmart hooked us up for around $4)
Bleach
Water
Clothes line
Clothes pins
Paper bags
Freezer paper
Iron
***Optional*** Cricut Cutting Machine
1st print trace and /or cut out your design using your freezer paper (you can easily do numbers and initials if you do not have a cutting machine)
2nd place shiny side of paper on fabric and iron it down
3rd slide paper bag inside t shirt and pin down
4th hang your t's on your clothes line
5th cut a slit in the top of your trash bag and 2 on each side and slide it on your kiddo to keep there clothes and skin safe
6th fill water guns with 2 parts bleach to 1 part water
7th put on protective eye wear
8th line em' up
9th take aim...and blast the open area of your design
10 LET DRY
11 peel paper off
12 wash, rinse, and dry
13 wear your "not so tie Dye'd" tee PROUDLY!

Have fun!
~Amber