For genius hour Jahaira, Stephanie and I made tie dye tops. Our big question was ‘How do we make tie dye tops.’ We found out this included chemicals such as soda ash. Safety is really important so we wore a mask and a plastic apron, we had to use parent supervision so my mum came to mix the soda ash and to be sure we were okay.

The colours we used for our tops were: yellow, golden, turquoise, magenta, orange and deep blue.The steps were we had to twist the tops so they looked like cinnamon buns. To make the tops secure, we used elastic bands to hold them. Next, we put the soda ash and water into the dye bottles and then we started to put the dyes in. The order was: yellow, yellow, turquoise, golden, orange, deep blue then magenta.

When we finished, we wrapped up all of the tops in news paper so it wouldn’t drip and then we wrapped it in a garbage bag for more safety. When we took it home, we had to put the tops in a safe and warm place for 24 hours. After the 24 hours, we took the tops out and rinsed them in cold water until there was no colour in the water. Next, we put them in the washing machine then hung them up to dry.

The things we found difficult was finding the tie dye kit and we chose the ‘ great big tie dye kit’ which was a good choice. Another difficult thing was twisting the tops because we had to see the swirls of the top. We chose this topic because it was a fun but a challenging topic to do and we used chemicals we didn’t know.

All in all, we had great fun making tops and we could do this again.

By Anabelle