You can use markers or if you want to decorate them with pencils first roughen up the surface with sandpaper.
click here to learn how make your own shrinky dinks
I drew this Goliath frog onto a thin sheet of plastic and shrunk it in the oven, making it 1/3 the original size. Shrinking the plastic also makes the plastic super compact and thick (and a tad brittle).
You should look up the Goliath frog. He's the world's biggest frog measuring 2 feet long and of course he's endangered. He's too cool to not be collected. ;-( He is also a delicacy, hence the miniature knives and forks circling him.
creating with shrinky dinks is a fun thing to do. One year we decorated our yearly tea magnet with shrinky dinks.
ReplyDeleteI have never tried making my own. Sounds like a fun project, but I don't think I have any plastic right now.
I would like to make game tokens with our real faces and body. Maybe that will be a project we can do together sometime?
Love your Goliath frog. Is it for a commission? How big is the finished piece?
It was a homework assignment for my environmental art class. It was about 4 inches in diameter.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to do an art project with you. :-)