{"id":107,"date":"2015-07-23T07:23:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T07:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/?p=107"},"modified":"2015-07-23T07:23:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T07:23:19","slug":"holiday-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/2015\/07\/23\/holiday-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sibo<\/a><\/p>\n

I was thinking that a good project to do in the holidays is tie-dying an old white or light coloured T-shirt that is worn out or stained. You can give it a new lease of life by painting it.<\/p>\n

You need some fabric paint, old plastic cool drink bottles \u2013 with their lids plus a few extra lids, and an old plastic container (like a margarine tub or something), medium sized elastic bands, water, a garbage bag and 4 stones (or something heavy to anchor the bag on the grass).<\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s best to experiment first with an old pillowcase or something \u2013 just until you get the hang of it. Also, it\u2019s fun to team up with some of your friends and get them to buy different colours of fabric paint \u2013 that way you can all share.<\/p>\n

Take a few teaspoonful\u2019s of one colour of fabric paint and put it in the old container. Add about half a glass of water. Mix it up well. Carefully pour it into one of the cool drink bottles \u2013 if there is still paint left in the bottom of the container \u2013 add a bit more water, swish it around and add it to the bottle.\u00a0 Put the lid on the bottle and give it a good shake.<\/p>\n

For each different colour of paint \u2013 make a separate bottle. Be careful to wash out the container that you mix in each time \u2013 otherwise you\u2019ll mix your colours up.<\/p>\n

Take the extra lids and make little holes in them \u2013 using a nail or something sharp. Replace the whole lids with the holey ones.<\/p>\n

Take the item you want to dye, grab a small handful of the fabric and put an elastic band around it. A bit like you are giving your t-shirt a pony tail. Do that all over the shirt \u2013 make lots of pony tails.<\/p>\n

Spread the black bag on the floor (outside of course, and make sure you are wearing old clothes) put your item down and sprinkle it with colour from a bottle.\u00a0 Smoosh the paint in with your hands (this is the fun part).\u00a0 Add more colours if you want to.<\/p>\n

Replace the holey lids with whole lids when you are finished. You can use leftover paint again.<\/p>\n

Hang the t-shirt on the line to dry.\u00a0 Wait until it is properly dry before taking off the rubber bands.<\/p>\n

Make sure you iron the T-shirt before you wear it \u2013 the heat sets the paint so that it does not wash out.<\/p>\n

Have fun. Send<\/a> me pictures if you want to.<\/p>\n

Sibo<\/p>\n

For more details and pictures visit my other blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was thinking that a good project to do in the holidays is tie-dying an old white or light coloured T-shirt that is worn out or stained. You can give it a new lease of life by painting it. You need some fabric paint, old plastic cool drink bottles \u2013 with their lids plus a … Continue reading “Holiday Fun”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}