I've always been in to anything artistic or crafty. Especially growing up. But I have never ever done shrinky dinks. Until now. It's not like I never heard of them. In fact I remember my friends being really into them when I was in high school. I just never did them myself. Sylvia had never done them either. So she looked up how to do them and it turns out you can just grab whatever #6 plastic you have lying around to work with. What we did is cut out a flat section from a container lid and sanded it a bit. So that the marker or pencil that we decided to use would stay on. For the sketch or stamp we used, we just applied it to paper first and then traced it to the plastic after. Then came the fun part of coloring. Shading with sharpies is fun but a bit of an art. Haha! I ended up not using all the sketches I came up with because I didn't have enough plastic to work with. Once they were ready we popped them in the broiler oven for about 5 or so minutes at a temperature of 350 degrees fahrenheit. We basically sat by the oven and stared. Watching them curl and then shrink. One of them warped a bit so I flattened it with a knife before it cooled and hardened. And then they were done! I also glazed the sanded colored side with a bit of glaze. For mine I punched holes in them before I shrunk them so that I could use them for pendants. If you do this, just make sure you make a big enough size hole. If you do this project at home just remember to have fun and experiment! =)
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