So, if you haven't seen the Duct Tape selection in the hardware isles recently you'd be AMAZED!!! The days of gray and silver are no longer...you can now get it in bright colors and prints too!
Everything from tie dye, to polka dots, to skulls and Hello Kitty you will be overwhelmed with the choices! Kacey (my aide during summer) and I decided it would be a fun project for our summer school class to create some usable art with the fun new colors of Duct Tape! She and I had both bought a few rolls out of pocket but then Kacey was over at her mother's house and was watching some You Tube tutorials on creating
Duct Tape wallets and her mother loved the idea! The next day Kacey's mom (who works at Wal-Mart) decided to buy 30 plus rolls of various
colors and prints and donated them to my class!!! This was nearly $100 dollars worth of Duct Tape even with her employee discount!!! It was unexpected but VERY appreciated! So each student got to create a wallet for themselves and because father's day was quickly approaching they got to make one for their dads that we then wrapped up as gifts too! Some of the quick working kiddos even made flower toppers for pens too! I then took the opportunity to create an English project by teaching the students to write thank you notes to Kacey's mother to thank her for the Duct Tape donation. To make the notes pretty (more like stationary) we used special a Japanese floating dye I'd bought. After the students wrote, revised, typed, and printed their letters they got to pick their colors. Kacey and I manned the dye (because it was expensive and permanent)...each drop of color chosen was floated in water and then lightly swirled by the student with a Popsicle stick and then we dipped the paper and envelope into the dye and wallah--Beautiful!!!
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