Make your own DIY Recycled Shrinky Dinks from garbage!

There’s a reason this post is one of our top posts of all time!  Making your own DIY Recycled Shrinky Dinks is so much fun, and it costs almost nothing!

I’m going to show my age with this post.  I remember when I was in middle school and Shrinky Dinks were cool.  We made them in an art class, and I have a very vivid memory of what I made.  In fact, my mom may still have it.  I probably made more than just this one thing, but one thing stands out for me.

When I was little, we had a cat named Muffin.  Muffin was the coolest cat ever.  She was part Siamese, and the sweetest cat in the world.  After she died of feline leukemia, my mom swore we would never have another cat, but I wanted one so badly.

So when it came time to make shrinky dinks, I decided to make a picture of a cat with the phrase, “A house is not a home without a cat.”  No guilt trip there, right? [Read more…]