Have you ever needed tissue paper for an art project? I had tons of tissue paper but none the colors needed. We were making a southwest desert sunset for our Let’s Go Geography program and so we needed sunset colors. Guess what? I had tons of pink, purple, dark blue, and white. No sunset colors. So, we improvised and I LOVE how it turned out.
tissue paper collage of desert southwest US
Our improvisation? I spread out a white piece of tissue paper and we used markers to color it the colors needed for the sunset. It worked beautifully.
color your own tissue paper
So, the next time you are in a quandry and don’t want to make the run up to the store to buy a particular color of tissue paper, try coloring some.
Blessings,
Lori, At Home.
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At Home 
We did that same project, and I couldn’t find much tissue paper locally. We had some pink and purple on hand at home, and I found red in town, so we used those and some yellow paper (not tissue paper). It worked!
Did you put a picture of the project up on the blog? I’ll go check and see. I’d love to see how they turned out. I thought this was such a pretty project but then, I always enjoy sunset pictures. 🙂
I would not have thought about colouring tissue paper. Good save!
Thank you.
What a great idea! You could even squirt with water and let it dry for a tye dye effect. Beautiful craft, by the way.
Ooh – tie-dye effect! I might have to try that! Thanks for the fabulous idea!
We didn’t have any sunset colors for the project either so I used what we had. Turned out okay. I like the idea of coloring it.
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