How Do You Use Shrinky Dinks

Place Shrinky Dinks® pieces, colored side up, on tray or cookie sheet covered with foil or brown paper. Heat at 325°F (163°C) for 1 to 3 minutes. Watch as the Shrinky Dinks® shrink. After the pieces lay flat, allow an additional 30 seconds of baking time to complete the process.

What side do you draw on for Shrinky Dinks?

Use colored pencils, markers, and ink on Shrinky Dinks. Use the colored pencil on the rough side of the sheets, and use Sharpie or permanent marker on the smooth side. Some Shrinky Dinks come pre-cut and with designs already outlined on them, and others will just be the plastic sheets.

What is the point of Shrinky Dinks?

Transform any image into a hardened piece of plastic that gets 9 times thicker and can be used for hundreds of applications. They can be used with any permanent coloring media to create useful and meaningful keepsakes, jewelry, ID tags, pins and more.