Tye Dye Ice

When ordinary ice just won't do, it's that 70's ice! (not responsible for strangely discolored drinks) I have done this WITHOUT food coloring, to make oddly mis-shaped ice, which looks very un-usual in the freezer. (mom hated it!)

You need:
ice cube tray, freezer, and water
food coloring (optional)

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Step 1: First color

For the first layer (yellow), only fill each cubicle halfway up, then freeze. When frozen, remove the ice and carefully stand each cube up, the long way, in it's cubicle. (Added 9/29/2011 Don't use straight food color! Use a dilute solution, 5 or 6 drops of color in a half cup of water. dreamberry)

kmix1 says: Oct 22, 2011. 6:05 PM

That's cool! how long does it take to make?

dreamberry (author) in reply to kmix1Oct 22, 2011. 6:22 PM

Well, you're basically making a tray of ice four times, so depending on how fast your freezer freezes ice,, I'd say probably all day, at least.

Klayton Kress says: Oct 4, 2011. 6:17 PM

To make this better skip the food coloring and go straight to the snow-cone flavorings. It adds color and flavor! You can dilute it to get more out of it and get a subtle flavor.

dreamberry (author) in reply to Klayton KressOct 4, 2011. 7:13 PM

Great idea! I've frozen tea, to use in my iced tea, so it doesn't water down.

bajablue says: Oct 4, 2011. 7:44 AM

Voted!

Best of Luck to ALL of us! ;-D

dreamberry (author) in reply to bajablueOct 4, 2011. 11:06 AM

Thank you thank you thankyou! :)

bajablue in reply to dreamberryOct 4, 2011. 4:14 PM

Welcome, welcome, welcome! ;-D

iceng says: Oct 3, 2011. 10:47 AM

LIKE

dreamberry (author) in reply to icengOct 3, 2011. 10:51 AM

Thank you very much!!!

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sunshiine says: Sep 28, 2011. 7:20 PM

Love this! Thanks for sharing.

dreamberry (author) in reply to sunshiineSep 28, 2011. 8:49 PM

Thanks! Quite a cosmic accident this! I did it without food color, just to be a pest, to make "lumpy ice". I used food color to illustrate the process, and ended up with something that people seem to dig quite a bit!

lhadlow sr in reply to dreamberryOct 2, 2011. 4:32 PM

Kewl! Some of our best inventions/discoveries have been by accident!

dreamberry (author) in reply to lhadlow srOct 3, 2011. 10:50 AM

Thanks, I agree!

shirleyinkuwait says: Oct 2, 2011. 11:25 AM

For a tasty drink and color, use crystal light wild strawberry: Add TWO packages to a 20 oz bottle of water. Pour liquid into ice tray. Freeze. When hardend, put cube into glass, add club soda. Refreshing! and Pretty.

dreamberry (author) in reply to shirleyinkuwaitOct 2, 2011. 12:21 PM

Great idea!

ak08820 says: Oct 2, 2011. 7:12 AM

Now, this is an ideal instructable, novel and easily done. More importanlty the product is useful, too.

dreamberry (author) in reply to ak08820Oct 2, 2011. 12:19 PM

Thank you! Glad you like it!

gjanelle says: Sep 29, 2011. 1:50 PM

to save food coloring i added water :) colors come out a little lighter though

dreamberry (author) in reply to gjanelleSep 29, 2011. 2:46 PM

Ha Ha. Gee I hope nobody uses straight food coloring! I guess I was not clear on that was I? OOPS! I used 5 or 6 drops in a half cup of water. You're just messin' with me, right?

dreamberry (author) in reply to dreamberrySep 29, 2011. 7:08 PM

And as I look more closely at my own Instructable, I see that I have misspelled TIE in the title. I kept wondering why spellcheck was tellin' me "tye" was wrong, and thought "I should shut that off."

Tararoys says: Sep 28, 2011. 8:39 PM

Very cute!

dreamberry (author) in reply to TararoysSep 28, 2011. 8:50 PM

Glad you like! :)

bajablue says: Sep 26, 2011. 2:11 PM

I LOVE this!!!

dreamberry (author) in reply to bajablueSep 26, 2011. 7:09 PM

Thank you very much!!! (it might not have been, if scoochmaroo had not inspired me with gentle prodding.)

bajablue in reply to dreamberrySep 28, 2011. 12:08 AM

This Ible should be FEATURED!!!!

Wake up, Scooch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!