Shrinky Dinks Shrinky Dinks were first soldat a Brookfield, Wis., shopping mall in 1973. Invented by Betty Morris and Kathryn Bloomberg as a Boy Scouts project for their sons’ troop, a Shrinky Dink set comes with sheets ofthin polystyrene plasticthat can be decorated however you desire. Once...
Shrinky Dinks were first soldat a Brookfield, Wis., shopping mall in 1973. Invented by Betty Morris and Kathryn Bloomberg as a Boy Scouts project for their sons’ troop, a Shrinky Dink set comes with sheets ofthin polystyrene plasticthat can be decorated however you desire. Once the creative ...
Shrinky Dinks—thin sheets of decorated plastic that shrunk down and hardened after baking inside an oven—were marketed as pure magic upon their debut in 1973. Of course, the real explanation was polystyrene plastic, which hosts polymer chains that straighten out when heated, rolled, and co...