Shrink a dink4/9/2023 ![]() ![]() I am thinking of making jewelry with her artwork, suncatchers, making Christmas ornaments, and… the possiblities are endless. I even started punching a hole in them before shrinking. ![]() My cost for those sheets is about 12 cents PER homemade Shrinky Dink now so she can plaster her room with them as far as I’m concerned. The Cupcake has been shrinking for the past two nights and has the ROYGBIV Sharpie stains on her hands to prove it. So THEN I used my brain and we cut out a sheet from each side of the box (giving me now 250 sheets! WOOT! I do love a bargain) and shrunk those with absolute perfection. We tried a shrinking a couple of the boxes whole and we were again disappointed. They were much larger than I was getting at Panera. It did not turn out well.įrustrated but not deterred by our original results, I went to Sam’s Club that weekend and purchased a bag of 125 #6 take out containers. So now that we had our Shrinky Dink mojo on – I was completely out of my Panera stash - I got desperate and tried shrinking another plastic box that I saved from the Daddy Daughter Dance corsage.ĭo not do this. The very last Shrinky Dink we did shrunk perfectly, but in my excitement I realized that I didn’t wipe all the crumbs out of the container first and they were like little freckles in the finished piece. Note that if your oven isn’t hot enough, they won’t shrink to a flat square. The longer we left the oven on, the better the shrinking turned out. I have determined that it was because the oven was not fully preheated (our toaster oven doesn’t tell us when it’s at the programmed temp). If the #6 plastic sticks to it, you may not be able to use your baking sheet for food again.Īdmittedly, we had less than stellar results the first time around. ****VERY IMPORTANT**** be sure to put parchment paper or non-stick aluminum on your baking sheet before you put your #6 plastic on it. If you try this at home, be sure to leave the box in until it completely finishes twisting and scrunching around and lays flat. Once complete, we put them – square container and all - one at a time into a preheated to 375 degree toaster oven and watched them automagically shrink to a fraction of their previous size in a matter of 30 seconds or so. None-the-less, I had a handful of containers to test run.Īgainst my better judgment, I got out the oh-so-permanent Sharpie markers and let the Cupcake draw to her artist’s heart’s content. (This was always met with strange looks from the employees) ![]() And yes, I asked Panera for extra boxes at drive-through visit. After three lunch trips I was beginning to see that not only was I getting fatter, my ROI was falling far less than the store-bought Disney Shrinky Dinks®. So naturally, as I do, I then became obsessed about finding a restaurant take out that used #6 plastic containers and Panera quickly became my muse. How do you tell if it’s the right container? Flip it over and look for the small embossed triangle of arrows on the bottom. Maybe, I couldn’t find any online, but what I did find were several tutorials on how to make your own Shrinky Dinks® at home.Īll the tutorials I read said that the best plastic to use is recyclable #6 plastic containers. Then I started thinking… isn’t there somewhere we can buy plain sheets of Shrinky Dinks® material? Like Staples? I dunno. In case you’re wondering, that’s about 4 cents per second. The package had six measly little images on miniature plastic chips of Cinderella and Snow White and company accompanied by the shortest colored pencils you’ve ever thought possible.Ī 3 year old will blast through coloring this package in approximately 38 seconds a piece of plastic and then be ready to shrink them in the oven. That’s the upcharge for a licensed Disney Princess print I suppose. I snagged some for The Princess Cupcake at Toys R Us for what I now consider to be an obscene amount of money. I was thrilled to see them make a reappearance on store shelves during a recent birthday party stock-pile trip. UPDATED with answered questions, 07/20/20 I loved Shrinky Dinks® as a kid. ![]()
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