How Do You Make Christmas Crafts With Shrinky Dinks?
Make whimsical charms for your holiday crafts using Shrinky Dinks, the plastic shapes produced by cutting and drawing on specially-formulated plastic designed to shrink to 1/3 of its original size in a 325-degree oven. Even children can help create designs such as holiday trees, candy canes, snowmen or ornaments that will shrink to size with three minutes of oven baking. Consider these ideas to make Christmas crafts with Shrinky Dinks. Make Christmas crafts with Shrinky Dinks to hang on your holiday tree. Use holiday-themed shape stencils to trace shapes onto the plastic and cut the images out with sharp scissors or a craft knife. Color the shapes with colored pencils, paint pens or markers. Use a 1/4-inch hand-held hole punch to make a hole at the top of the shape-avoid using a smaller hole punch since the hole will shrink during the baking process. After baking, place the ornaments on a firm surface and press a heavy book on top of each one to flatten the shapes. Push the end of a me
