Shrinkles are their name, and shrinking is their game. The box says they shrink down to 7 times their size, and 7 times their thickness, and they do! How it works, I've got no idea, but they are super cool to watch. This bumper box comes with a large number of bugs to colour in. You even get the colouring in pencils to colour with, although normal colouring in pencils work just as well.
Simply colour in th
e bugs and cut around the dotted line, it's important to make sure you leave the required border around the bug, otherwise you may loose some of the picture upon shrinking. You can make these into lots of different things, from key rings, badges, magnets, pencil toppers, rings, and more. If you are wanting to make them into key rings, you must punch a hole (using a hole punch) into the design before shrinking, otherwise there is no way you'll get a hole in it afterwards.
e bugs and cut around the dotted line, it's important to make sure you leave the required border around the bug, otherwise you may loose some of the picture upon shrinking. You can make these into lots of different things, from key rings, badges, magnets, pencil toppers, rings, and more. If you are wanting to make them into key rings, you must punch a hole (using a hole punch) into the design before shrinking, otherwise there is no way you'll get a hole in it afterwards. This is where the adults come into it (if you haven't already picked up a coloured pencil a
nd coloured some of the designs as well). You'll need to heat your oven to 175 degrees C. It doesn't really matter what function you have it on, I used fan bake. Once it is up to temp, lay the design onto a flat tray on top of a piece of tinfoil, and place it into the oven, watch the magic happen!
nd coloured some of the designs as well). You'll need to heat your oven to 175 degrees C. It doesn't really matter what function you have it on, I used fan bake. Once it is up to temp, lay the design onto a flat tray on top of a piece of tinfoil, and place it into the oven, watch the magic happen!Within a minute it curls and folds in on itself, and then when it has flattened right out again, it's done. Take it out of the oven, it'll be really pliable at this point which is what it needs to be, lay it on a flat surface (kitchen bench), and place a book or a placemat on top of it. This will flatten it completely, and it'll set hard. With these wiggly eyed bugs, now is the time to add the eyes, they have adhesive backs so just peel the backing off and stick em on.
Viola!, they have shrunk to 7 times their original size, and 7 times as thick, it's magic!
The bumper boxes come with everything you need to make a variety of different shrinkles. It even comes with a blank sheet of shrinkles plastic to trace or draw your own pictures and designs, draw them on, colour them in, shrink them down.
The party packs come with one design, and only one accessory, ie: a key ring, magnet strip, bagde pin etc. The party packs also don't come with any colouring pencils, but we just used the ones my kids already have.
So have fun and get your kids shrinking this summer.
