Don’t use oily or waxy substances like crayons or oil paint on Shrinky Dinks because they will melt in high heat. I don’t get take out often but several people bring me their containers to use with the kids for crafts.

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Many of the sets were themed on popular children's characters, which you could have fun painting them in before baking. You’ll get a much better result using a permanent marker on the plastic than any other type of medium.Take fine sandpaper and lightly scratch the entire surface of the plastic so it’s rough and will hold the color of your medium. Recently I learned that the magic of Shrinky Dinks (Shrink E Dink or Shrink A Dink as they’re sometimes known) is that they use a special type of plastic for their special shrinking sheets, and that this type of plastic is also used for a lot of other of things. A lot of times, depending on the character or picture you are using, it even makes it look better to paint or color it on the back side of the image. Shrinky Dinks were invented in 1973 by Betty Morris and Kate Bloomberg, two housewives in Brookfield, Wisconsin, as a Cub Scout project with their sons.

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It is for a special event, and I have been working on the elements to make it…forever (or so it seems). We would put them on a cookie sheet and then my mom put them in the oven for us and she'd turn on the light so we could watch them shrink inside the heated oven.

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