Plants used for dyeing Natural colours-Romania

We decided to do the dyeing with natural colours workshop with students from the 7 th class and little ones, too, as we thought it would be more interesting and enjoyable for the children. We made use of the following natural ingredients: dandelion flowers, blueberries, beetroots, green tea and onion skin.

 

As for the materials to be dyed we used both wool and paper. Here is what we got:

 

Painting with colours

Painting with nature colours

Since we love making homemade paint we thought we would take it a step further and see if we could use flowers to make our own natural watercolors. We started by choosing several flowers of varying colors from our yard. Students to find flowers with vibrant colors, so we could get vibrant paint.

We separated the flowers, picked and made predictions about which flowers we thought would give off the most color.  

We agreed that the red would probably give us the best results, followed closely by the orange and blue. I heated up one cup of water. We didn't want it too hot, but figured that warm water would help pull the color from the flowers. 

We put the flowers into ziploc bags and divided the cup of water between the four bags. We noticed that the red flowers bled immediately. 

Next we had use a rolling pin to squish the flowers in the baggies.
 Painting with colours .
 The results were surprising.  As I mentioned above the orange flowers gave off color immediately.


The blue flower gave off a lovely violet color. The blue was a very light blue.


 The photos make it look richer than it actually was.


The little people love to paint, but they tend to dump colored water. 




We didn't want to see our watercolors overturned before we had a chance to use them.

LATVIA Plants and berries for dyeing and painting

This is the Project work of class 6 .

At the beginning students discussed what plants, seeds or berries could be used for dyeing and painting. All together came to an agreement to use blueberry jam, cherry juice, carrot juice, onionskin, beat roots, coffee beans and mix of herbal teas.

All colours liquid students tried on the paper and educed that they are not so bright as synthetical paint. After that students started to dye wool using salt and vinegar as a mordant.  After dyeing wool was rinsed in warm water and dried

     Project work was interesting for children and they decided  to do it again in summer and autumn.

Painted paper and wool were presented at the end of the Project week in February.

The painted yarn.

colored:

blueberry jam

 beet juice

onionskin

cherry juice

oregano tea

Canadian goldenrod