Fabric Rocks

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Originally uploaded by super rachel zana.

This morning I traversed over to the home of another mother from my church. We had volunteered to work together to recreate the tomb Jesus resurrected from for the preschool Easter party at my church. Our plan was to dye a slough of sheets from the local thrift store to look like rocks, and cover a large tent with the sheets so the kids can open the stone doorway and go inside to look for Jesus. Today we dyed the sheets. We bound them with rubber bands and dipped the tufts into black and brown dye, and then hung the sheets out on the clothesline to dry. It took four hours, because the job was interrupted by two babies who needed to be fed and four preschoolers who needed to eat their lunch (maccaroni and cheese). We also spent another hour and a half cleaning up the mess the four preschoolers created in the playroom while we were up to our elbows in dye. It was glorious fun. I do love to make messes. Now I just have to wait for my hands to return to their normal color.