Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A nostalgia-fueled DIY trend is bringing these magically shrinking kits back in style. Aleksandr Bushkov / Getty Images There 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 ...

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 ...

Parents probably remember the 1970s fad of cutting out plastic shapes, coloring them and shrinking the crafts in the oven. In a bid to revive the trend, Canadian-based Spin Master Toys recently ...

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 ...

If Honey, I Shrunk the Kids ever made you wonder what your world would look like in miniature, content creator and homemaker Johana Krasinski (@johanakrasinski_)has a DIY that brings that feeling back ...

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 ...

Inflation and time have been kind to Shrinky Dinks; the popular 1970s and 1980s toy is resurfacing this holiday season. Shrinky Dinks, initially popular with the generation currently in their twenties ...

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 ...

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, ...

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