If you haven’t kept up with novelties from the 1970s, you might be surprised to learn that Shrinky Dinks, plastic cutouts that shrink and harden into three-dimensional trinkets when baked in an oven, ...

There was a time when Shrinky Dinks® was on almost every child’s Christmas list. Betty Morris of Brookfield, Wisconsin, invented the plastic polymer sheets in 1973. Kids could color designs on the ...

I usually keep a rainy day activity kit or two handy for those times when the kids are getting antsy and it’s miserable outside. Shrinky Dinks, spin art, porcelain painting — they’re all ready to use ...

I usually keep a rainy day activity kit or two handy for those times when the kids are getting antsy and it’s miserable outside. Shrinky Dinks, spin art, porcelain painting —they’re all ready to use ...

Scientists have discovered a way to fold origami — without physically touching it. By shining different colors of light on a sheet of Shrinky Dink plastic, researchers remotely bent it into various 3D ...