Yes, Shrinky Dinks. Those fabulous little plastic-y creations that you remember (or not) from the 70s. They go into the oven as flimsy little papery pieces and come out only moments later as litty-bitty hard plastic trinkets. Rip and I have been talking about shrinkin' and dinkin' for weeks, and I've probably owned the shrink film (purchased at JoAnn Fabric) for almost a year. Nothing like getting right on a project.
Well, yesterday we declared it to be Shrinky Dink Day. Here are our masterpieces, drawn with colored pencils and cut out with scissors. We hole-punched a few too.
Now they are headed into the oven for the shrinkin'...
Oh WOW! Rip can barely contain herself!
...and in a matter of seconds, those dinks are already curling up, right before our very eyes!
And WA La! Cooked dinks in a total of 2 minutes. Look how cute they are...
So immediately after this photo, R grabbed up her dinks and ran. No further photo op for her dinks, but here are mine. Seriously tiny little things.
Too much fun. And you might be asking, what will you DO with your finished dinks? Great question, I answer. I'm thinking they could work as fun little embellies on some mini albums. Now, where did I put my glue dots...
excellent! Happy Shrinky Dink Day!
Posted by: stephanie c | June 18, 2009 at 09:11 AM
I want shrinky dinks!!! Johann's rocks! (that's what marz calls it...) do u think they still have some in stock? fun stuff girld friend :)) xo amt
Posted by: anna tremblay | June 18, 2009 at 02:21 PM