How to Make IamHigherEd Wristbands

This is a short instructable on how we were able to make thousands on red wristbands on the cheap.

These style of wristbands are worn to show resistance to the massive budget cuts facing higher education in the United States. In Colorado, we now rank 50th in the nation for higher ed funding and are expecting the budget to be cut in half again in the next couple of years.  State lawmakers are discussing privatizing colleges and raising tuition 40-50% or closing down smaller colleges to save money.

A group of students in Colorado is working on campuses on every public university in Colorado to organize students against these cuts.

Step 1 Getting the Materials

1. To find material for the wristbands, we went to most of the local thrift stores. Red cotton T-shirts can be found for 50 cents to 1 dollar each. Men's T-shirts seem to be the most economical in terms of cost. The least printing on this shirts the better. We also were able to find a few red women's cotton dress. The best material has a bit of synthetic material in it and gives the shirt some elasticity.

We also asked our friends for any old red T-shirts and were suprised by how many people had that they were willing to get rid of.

Comments

[shawdow7341]

awesome just made one and very easy i was very suprised how mine turned out