Tonight was a very special night of YAAS. A while back, we had a t-shirt design contest to determine what the YAAS emblem would be.
These were the designs submitted...
And after voting, this is what was voted in as our official group shirt design!
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| We ended up going with a black and white version |
I spent my downtime at work ironing on the designs for the last couple of weeks so the kids wouldn't have to take the time to do it, and could focus on tie-dying. The logic behind this was, everyone's shirt will be both uniform and individual; same icon, different tie-dye patterns and colors. A group, but still individuals.
In order to make the tie-dying easy and accessible for everyone, we combined the project with a movie night and then had 2-3 people at a time come outside to dye their shirts. "Holes" is one of my all-time favorite movies of any genre, and when we talked about potential movies to show at YAAS it came up as a choice everyone would enjoy. If you haven't seen it or read the book by Louis Sachar, I highly recommend both. In fact, the movie is on my [very, very short] list of book-to-movie adaptations that was actually well done.
Here are some pictures of the tie-dye process...
...and here we all are a few weeks later at a YAAS outing wearing our fantastic group shirts!
In order to make the tie-dying easy and accessible for everyone, we combined the project with a movie night and then had 2-3 people at a time come outside to dye their shirts. "Holes" is one of my all-time favorite movies of any genre, and when we talked about potential movies to show at YAAS it came up as a choice everyone would enjoy. If you haven't seen it or read the book by Louis Sachar, I highly recommend both. In fact, the movie is on my [very, very short] list of book-to-movie adaptations that was actually well done.
Here are some pictures of the tie-dye process...
...and here we all are a few weeks later at a YAAS outing wearing our fantastic group shirts!
