Blogger / 3 February, 2025 / Nanny Anita

Tie-Dye Valentines Hearts

I have never been particularly good at tie-dying, I always seem to end up with massive white gaps in the pattern.  This time I was hoping I might be better at doing tie-dye Valentines hearts.  I mean, I am working with a much smaller piece of material.  Alas, I still ended up with big white spaces in some of them.  Nether the less, it is a fun craft to do.

Make sure that you follow my Valentines board on Pinterest for more ideas.  Don’t forget to save the pin for later.

To make your own tie-dye Valentines hearts you will need:

• Kitchen roll/paper towel
• Pipette
• Coloured water
• Small elastic bands*
• Scissors

*Loom bands or small hair ties are good for this.

Fold up your piece of kitchen roll, you could try different ways of folding it, like you would with a t-shirt.  Tie of sections with the elastic bands.

Using your pipette, cover the piece of kitchen roll in the coloured water.  Just remember that this is sort of like doing a chromatography experiment.  The colours you use, may not be the colours you end up with.  My purple parts completely disappeared, and my red turned to pink.

Leave them to dry.

Once dry, carefully take the elastic bands off and unfold them to reveal the pattern.

Cut your kitchen roll into hearts and then use them to decorate.  You could turn them into pictures, stick them to windows, or use them to decorate wrapping paper.

If you enjoyed these tie-dye Valentines hearts, be sure to check out my chocolate hearts and circle and heart pictures.

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