Last week we made stenciled and tie-dyed t-shirts. First, we used cardstock stencils and black fabric paint to stencil a design on the fronts of our shirts. After setting them with a heatgun, we used large rubberbands to bunch up parts of the tshirts into starburst patterns. Then we went outside and went crazy with squirt bottles filled with very warm dye. :)
In the second week we worked with polymer clay. We made clay canes where we stacked thin logs of clay together, wrapped them in a layer of clay, and rolled it into a larger log of clay. We then sliced that log into round beads. We also made some smaller swirly beads to go with them. We then baked them. After that we made several "one ball" animals from clay along with accessories and landscapes.
The first week we drew our own patterns and hand sewed muslin monsters. Then we stuffed them. After that, we drew and painted faces and features.
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