How to Make a Shrinky Dink Indian

Thanksgiving began when the Indians and Pilgrims joined together to eat a big celebratory meal. Your children can celebrate Thanksgiving by making their own shrinky dink Indian.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Shrinky dink sheets
• Cookie sheet
• Pencil crayons

1. Buy some shrinky dink sheets either at your local craft store or online (see Resources below).

2. Use the rough side of the shrinky dink sheet to draw your Indian on.

3. Use a brown pencil crayon to draw the outline of your Indian. Make the Indian slightly larger than you really want him to be, since the Indian is going to shrink.

4. Color your Indian in with pencil crayons. Add colorful feathers and beads like the Indians wear. You can even color your Indian upon a horse if you want to.

5. Cut your Indian out. Leave a small clear space around the edges of the Indian to make up for some of the shrinking that is going to take place.

6. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F, set your Indian on a cookie sheet with its color side facing up and put it in the oven for 1 minute.

7. Remove from the oven and let the Indian cool off before using.

Tips & Warnings

• Punch a hole in your Indian with a hole puncher, thread a piece of string through the hole and tie to form a necklace.
• Cut a strip of magnet to stick on the back of your Indian and decorate your refrigerator with it.
• Watch your shrinky dink in the oven at all times. It can burn in less than 2 seconds.

Resources

• Shrinky Dink Store

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