Tulip 8-Color Tie-Dye Kits from $8.92 on Amazon (Regularly $22)

I’ve purchased this kit two years in a row to take with my family to the beach for a rainy day craft project. This kit comes with bottles that are already filled with powdered dye to which you add water to activate, rubber bands for tying, and several pairs of plastic gloves to protect little fingers. You don’t have to soak the clothes in soda ash before you dye them like you do with some kits.

We’ve had no problems making 5 adult-sized t-shirts with extra dye left over using one kit. My kids love the rainbow of bright colors, and after a year of washing, we’ve had no problems with fading.

To use at the beach, we lay down plastic garbage bags on the ground, and dye on top of them. After saturating the shirts we roll them up in the plastic garbage bags and leave them in the sun for a few days before rinsing and then washing.