There is an undeniable joy found in taking part in the same activities we enjoyed as kids, but as an adult—and with a bit of an adult twist. In the latest iteration of this nostalgia-driven trend, ...

Shrinky Dinks are a type of plastic that you can use to color on and cut into shapes. Then, you put it in the oven and watch it shrink. Invented in 1973, these little crafts are a classic and can seem ...

Introduced in 1973, Shrinky Dinks had kids (and crafty adults) creating artwork on flexible sheets of plastic that, when popped in the oven, would magically shrink down to approximately 1/3 their ...

The basic idea behind Shrinky Dinks hasn’t really changed in the 38 years they’ve been around: The flexible sheets of shrinkable plastic can still be cut, colored and popped into an oven to shrink one ...

Krasinski starts the art project by using a six-inch embroidery hoop to make a clean outline for each portrait. Inside the ...

The magical world of Shrinky Dinks -- an arts and crafts material used by children since the 1970s -- has taken up residence in a Northwestern University laboratory. A team of nanoscientists is using ...

What do you do when your coloring page is done? Make something! Here’s a tutorial to turn those pages into Shrinky Dink ...

When it comes to toys, usually only the newest with the coolest technology get hot. But Shrinky Dinks are proving the exception to the rule. The plastic that shrinks when you bake it, a favorite in ...

(Nanowerk News) How do you put a puzzle together when the pieces are too tiny to pick up? Shrink the distance between them. Engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are using ...

The first time artist Heather Bauer played with Shrinky Dinks, a craft toy popular in the 1970s, she was a kid. “I loved them,” she says. “You watched them bake and it was cool.” Now, adult Heather is ...

In late 1973, Betty Morris and Kathryn Bloomberg set up a small table in Brookfield Square, a suburban mall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was shopping season, and plenty of small businesses were ...

First Slinky, now Shrinky Dinks. What will toy and games investment firm Alex Brands buy next? Shrinky Dinks — an iconic plastic toy and craft — has been sold to Alex Brands, less than three years ...