Tie Dyed Shamrocks

Tie Dyed Shamrocks

 We have had a lot of fun playing around and discovering fun ways to make these tie dyed shamrocks.  

First of all you'll need:

Coffee filters

Markers

food dye

water

Spray bottle

Scissors

 First of all you'll need cut cut your coffee filters into your shapes.  We cut ours out like you would a heart.  Once you have you shape try to press your filter so it lies flat.

Our first technique we used Crayola markers.  Color the filter with lots of color.  Makes sure that most of it has color so that the colors should blend together most of the filter.

Fluttershy was working on her's while I tried out a rainbow.  

Once your filter has a lot of color, place it on a pan and lightly spray the filter so that the colors bleed and spread.  I placed the pan so that it was slanted encouraging the colors to run downward.

The marker was fun and got really good results.  Our next method was food colors.  Drop several colors all around your filter.  The food color immediately spreads and covers the filter.  To get the colors to completely cover the filter use the spray bottle on the pan and lightly spray it.  The colors will spread even further.

Lay them on a towel to try.  They dry very fast. Taking about 20 minutes

Here is our favorites

I hung these up on our window and with the sun shining through they looked really neat.