How to Make a Shrinky Dink Candy Corn
Shrinky Dinks are fun crafts that turn large objects in to small ones. During the Halloween season, you may find the sudden urge to create crafts that look like real candy. You can do that with Shrinky Dinks. Children can create a bunch of candy corn Shrinky Dinks and then place them in a bowl. The bowl can be set out on a coffee table to trick guests in to thinking there is a bowl of real candy corns. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Buy a package of Shrinky Dink sheets. It is less expensive to buy them directly from the makers of Shrinky Dinks. The link is provided for you below.
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Examine one of your Shrinky Dink sheets. Each side has a different feel to it. You will want to color on the rough side so find that side and set it in front of you.
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Get out an orange pencil crayon and drawn an outline of a candy corn. It will look like a cone. Make it larger than you want it so it doesn't shrink down so small you can't see it. You should be able to fit about 10 candy corns on one page and draw their outlines too.
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Color the candy corns in with orange on the bottom, yellow in the middle and white on the top. Use the picture above if you are not sure how to do it.
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Turn your oven on. You are going to want to set the temperature to 325 degrees F and give the oven time to heat up.
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Cut out your candy corns being sure to leave a space around the edges. That will make up for the shrinking it is going to do in the oven.
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Set all of the candy corns color side up on your baking sheet. They should be in a row, but not touching each other.
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Place the baking sheet of candy corns in the oven for 60 seconds and be ready to remove quickly.
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Set the candy corns out to cool off for about 20 minutes before using.
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Tips & Warnings
Pull out a strip of magnet and cut a piece to fit the back of your candy corn. Place your candy corn on the refrigerator for decoration.
Keep an eye on your Shrinky Dink while it is in the oven. It has been known to burn in only 2 minutes.
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- Photo Credit Krystle Fleming
