How to Tie Dye Paper

Many people love to make stationery paper, featuring tie-dye patterns. Read on to make some.

1. You need paper. Take a rag, get it wet, and splotch it all over the paper. This helps the colors really get in the paper.
   
   
2. Take out food coloring.
   
   
3. Under the paper you are dyeing, put dots or dye.
   
   
4. Pick up the paper, and tap it on the table .
   
   
5. If you like, when it drys put one - only one - squirt or perfume on the table.
   
   

Using Dye or Food Coloring

1. Take your paper and put it over a surface that you don't mind getting the dye on.
   
   
2. Take a color of dye and put a drop or two on the wet paper.
   
   
3. Lift up your paper so it's facing vertically and let the dye drip off, and let it dry.
   
   

Using Coffee

1. Make some coffee and pour it into a bucket.
   
   
2. Make sure the coffee is cold otherwise it will shrink the paper
   
   
3. Push your paper all the way down into the bucket full of coffee
   
   
4. Lay the paper out to dry.
   
   
5. Enjoy your dyed paper
   
   

Using Washable Marker

1. Get multiple colors of markers and scribble all over the paper.
   
   
2. Dip the paper in water.
   
   
3. Let the paper dry.
   
   

• Have something under the paper you're dyeing!
• If you get dye on your skin, use rubbing alcohol to get it off.
• Try experimenting with the marker and paper. What does a dog look like tie-dyed?
• If you dyed your paper in coffee, dipping it multiple times makes it darker.
• Make sure to get a parents permission to do this, as coffee can be hot.
• Dye can stain your clothes.
• To make scented tie-dye, spray on a hint of perfume.

• Coffee can burn if it's hot.

• Clothes you can stain
• Something to put under the paper your dyeing
• Paper (lined or not)
• A rag
• Food coloring
• Perfume (optional)