Been pondering this a lot since we did this project. As with other things we have done, Little E just lit up when he saw all the colours we were going to work with. He loves mixing colours together and setting them next to each other. He says things like, "No, that's perfect as it is...Isn't it beautiful, mummy? No, we need one more colour..." I am not sure how common it is, but Little E tells me if my clothes are beautiful or if he likes the colour someone is wearing. He has very strong feelings over what he wears and is passionate about certain colours.
I am glad Little E has opened me up to all the different ways you can express yourself and I enjoy finding things that I think will appeal to him. We just currently appear to be more Rothko than Rembrant!
Anyway, this was something I had seen ages ago on Pinterest and came up when I was thinking of Easter thank you cards.
I really enjoyed making a tie-dye t-shirt for Big E last year and I really enjoyed doing this with Little E. It was so simple and he found it so satisfying to choose the colours and apply them.
Essentially, take a baby wipe and fold or twist as you desire and then place as many rubber bands along the length of the wipe as you want. Then add colour. As we found, the more the better! Go for it!
The original article I saw suggested using washable markers, but we couldn't get much colour transfer, so we used food colouring (which worked well) and our set of beautiful watercolour paints from Stockmar (which were perfect).
Leave them rolled up to dry and then you can do the "big reveal" later and see what you have created. It was then easy to cut them up for some Easter cards.
I am now enjoying "wasting" my time looking up Shibori techniques. I think we could make some amazing patterns next time.
