Shrinky Dinks are an arts and craftstoy for children invented in 1973 by Betty Morris from Wisconsin and later marketed by the colouring book giant, Colorforms. They start out as thin, flexible plastic sheets that can be coloured with pencils and cut into shapes. When heated in the oven, the plastic shrinks into a much smaller, thicker, and more rigid form, while retaining the colored design.
For those unfamiliar with activity toys of the past and present, ShrinkyDinks are made when processed plastic sheets are drawn or colored on, cut out and then heated in an oven, causing the original design to shrink to one-third its original size.
According to Morris, more than 200 kinds of ShrinkyDinks kits have been produced since 1974, but Morris and a partner got their start in 1973 when, as Cub Scout leaders in Brookfield for their sons' troop, the two stumbled onto a fun project idea for the boys in a craft magazine.
According to Morris, ShrinkyDinks are used in the dental industry, to identify dentures, and by rubber stampers, professional artists, scrapbookers and quilters, for various purposes.
ShrinkyDinks is the name for an arts and crafts toy for children invented in 1973 by Betty Morris from Wisconsin and later marketed by the colouring book giant, Colorforms.
California rock band Sugar Ray formed in 1992 with the name Shrinky Dinx, but later changed it (upon threat of lawsuit from Hasbro).
Family Guy - In an episode of Family Guy, Albert Einstein steals the idea of ShrinkyDinks from God.
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