Showing posts with label Play dough natural dye NRG creatively green festival spice sustainable dye silk hankies spice dye. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Play dough natural dye NRG creatively green festival spice sustainable dye silk hankies spice dye. Show all posts

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Recent Work

Here is recent work I would like to share. I participated in a Creatively Green Family Festival presented through Young Audiences of New Jersey through a generous grant from NRG. What a nite, 300 folks in Hamilton, New Jersey created green crafts. My contribution was silk hankies dyed with natural materials: turmeric, hollyhock, red cabbage, hibiscus tea and yellow onion skins. Children and their families tie dyed the silk scarves with gorgeous results.

While planning the workshop I experimented with adding the natural dye to play dough. I used beet, paprika, turmeric and other dyes to make a palette of pastel play doughs-