How Do You Make Shrinky Dinks?
• Use Colored Pencils or Permanent Markers only, no crayons. Purchase plastic Shrinky Dink sheets. • Color on the rough side with colored pencils or permanent markers. Color on the rough side with colored pencils or permanent markers. Printing from a computer directly onto a sheet is also possible, and works great with photos. Print letters in a mirror image so they can be read from the nicer shiny side once shrunk. Tracing is popular as well. • Set your oven to 325 degress farenheit. Toaster ovens work just fine. • Plain Aluminum wrap works fine, but non-stick works better. Cover a tray with non-stick aluminum foil. This makes removing Shrinky Dinks extra easy and protects your tray. • Heat the tray in the oven. • Shrinky dinks shrink small, so using a butter knife (not a table knife) to lift them and swat them down from curling works best. Place your Shrinky Dinks, rough side up on the tray. Don’t even close the oven yet. Be ready to swat them down with your tiny spatula when they cu
