Week 2 - Creating Sun-Brewed Dye Bath and Botanical Prints

 We had a beautiful sunshine filled day again today - perfect for exploring the garden - looking for different items to create dyes and prints - The children had a great time exploring and learning about the Cailleach and her herbs and ways - myths of winter time - they brought in stories from home - and we will take ideas from these stories - and the mandalas from last week - and the dyes from this week to help move forward to the next week.

collecting wildplants, flowers and leaves

These are the Sun brewed Dye baths all prepared in jars - each one is filled with one plant, berry,
flower or bark by each of the children - all found in the school grounds. 

All the jars with sit on the window sill for the week creating a natural sun kissed dye in a jar.

Each jar is labeled with the names plant - and the owner's name.

We are so excited to see what happens in the next week to theses jars and the colours that will emerge.

Then we went on to create botanical prints on fabric 

Leaves, wildplants plants, flowers and berries were used for the prints on fabric.

The fabric is rolled up in twos .. 

Here are all the final rolled botanical prints - ready to be boiled for an hour. 

And then left to dry - until we unfold them in class next week

Here are the prints after being boiled - now we will wait. 

A lovely story by one of the children as part of the Art homework last week - I can't to read them all.