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Making a Sharpie Tie Dyed T-Shirt


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March 3, 2014

Sharpie Tie Dyed T-shirtUsing Sharpies to tie dye t-shirts is easy and would be a great kids' craft!

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Supplies:

  • white t-shirt
  • Sharpie markers
  • plastic cups
  • rubber bands
  • eye dropper
  • rubbing alcohol
  • hair dryer
  • cardboard template (quarter-sized circle)
supplies
 

Warning: I highly recommend that you either open your windows or do this outside!

Steps:

  1. Create a cardboard template by tracing around a quarter and cutting it out.
  2. trace quarter for template
     
  3. Put plastic cups in between the layers of the t-shirt. Place a rubber band around the top of each cup, pulling the t-shirt material tight.
  4. rubber band tshirt onto cup
     
    cups inside tshirt 3
     
  5. Place the template in the center of rubber banded areas. Select a marker color and make large dots around the template. Then remove the template.
  6. put dots around template
     
    dots on tshirt 1
     
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  7. Now working out from the middle, fill the rubber banded area with large dots. Change colors and create whatever patterns you want. Repeat for each of the rubber banded areas.
  8. dots on tshirt 4
     
    dots on tshirt 5
     
  9. Once all of your areas are colored, lay out a plastic bag on our work surface and pour rubbing alcohol into a small bowl.
  10. put shirt on plastic bag
     
    alcohol in bowl
     
  11. Using an eye dropper, put a few drops of alcohol into the very center of one the areas. Allow the alcohol to wick outward from the middle. Be aware that some colors spread better than others. NOTE: Be sure to hold the cup you are working on upright, so that the alcohol spreads evenly.
  12. add alcohol drops 1
     
    add alcohol drops 3
     
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  13. Now add drops of alcohol to keep it wicking outward. Continue adding alcohol as needed until all of the ink in the area has become wet and had a chance to spread. NOTE: Only add alcohol to where it is already wet, otherwise you will interfere with the spreading of the ink.
  14. add alcohol drops 4
     
    add alcohol drops 6
     
  15. Repeat until all of the rubber banded areas have been tie-dyed.
  16. tie dye each area 1
     
  17. Allow the t-shirt to dry, using a blow dryer if necessary. Now remove the rubber bands and cups. If you want to do more tie-dying in the areas that are still white, repeat the above steps.
  18. dry with hair dryer
     
    tie dye each area 4
     
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  19. Put the t-shirt in your dryer and dry on high heat to set the colors. I would wash it in cold and line dry to maintain the colors.
  20. finished tshirt
     
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May 29, 2014

This is fun way to make tie-dyed shirts when you don't have dye. Watch this video and learn how to make tie dyed shirts with Sharpies.

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