Shrink Plastic Workshops in Melbourne this School Holidays (April 2012)

This coming school holidays I will be holding some Shrink Plastic Workshops in a lovely studio space in East Malvern (details below). If you have ever wanted to give shrink plastic (often referred to as Shrinky Dinks) a try, here's your chance. 

Shrink plastic is also the perfect craft to do at home with the kids in the holidays. It's great for rainy days, birthday parties, play dates and sleepovers.

I will have shrink plastic packs, kits and all the attaching bits for sale if you want to buy some to take home. It's a surprisingly clean and inexpensive craft to do using a regular oven.

All ages are welcome at the open workshop mornings - adults too.

I'll supply the plastic, decorating materials and attachments - you just come and enjoy the fun and watch your creations shrink. Bring a friend or two and take your time.

There will be loads of cutout shrink plastic shapes for you to decorate. Trace one of our images or invent your own. Use the materials provided to decorate your shapes, then we'll bake and shrink it.

I though I'd keep the mornings informal with a drop-in, pay-per-piece system for those wanting  to try it out.  $5.00 includes the use of all materials to make and decorate your shrink plastic piece finished off with either a stretch cord necklace, zip lanyard or bag tag attachment.

Bring Mum, Dad, Grandma or whoever if you are too young to stay on your own.

For those kids wishing to stay for up to 1 and a half hours for $20.00, I will keep you busy with fun projects. There's so much you can do with shrink plastic, and boys love it too!

 

For more info, call Dana on 0409 040091

or email me on dana@shrinkibits.com.au 

Shrink Plastic Holiday Workshops         

4 Clarence St, East Malvern 

(at the Academy of Dance)

Wednesday 4th April

Drop-On-By Workshop 10am to 12.30pm       

$5.00 per piece or $20.00 for an hour and a half of shrink plastic projects

Thursday 5th April:

Drop-On-By Workshop 10am to 12.30pm       

$5.00 per piece or $20.00 for an hour and a half of shrink plastic projects

Wednesday 11th April:

Drop-On-By Workshop 10am to 12.30pm       

$5.00 per piece or $20.00 for an hour and a half of shrink plastic projects

Thursday 12th April:

Drop-On-By Workshop 10am to 12.30pm       

$5.00 per piece or $20.00 for an hour and a half of shrink plastic projects

Afternoon workshops available on request 

for groups of  10-15 (ages 8 and up)

Preppies Drawing Dinosaurs on Shrink Plastic - Craft Fun at School

My son is currently learning about dinosaurs at school and I am amazed at how much these six-year-olds know about them. Some of the kids can accurately identify just about any species of dinosaur you choose to point out, and they'll throw in some very impressive facts too.

I offered to come in to school to help the kids make their own dinosaur shrinki pendants and I'm not sure who had more fun, me or the kids!
2 classes participated in the Shrinkibits activity, and thanks to the Prep teachers, all the children had practised drawing dinosaurs and even had design plans for their triangular-shaped pendants.

Here are some pics from the event:

School Holiday Craft Workshops

We are now well into the last term of the school year here in Melbourne, and with all the school concerts, excursions and fun days planned, it feels like we are sprinting to the finish of another year.
A few weeks back in the school holidays, I held a series of Shrinkibits Shrink Plastic Workshops as incursions at 10 different primary school holiday programs around Melbourne. 

Hundreds of children experienced the thrill of shrinking plastic for the first time. They created delightfully imaginative pieces that shrunk before their eyes in the little portable oven, and they proudly took them home as pendants and bag tags.
I managed to get a few photos of their work and promised a couple of those children I would publish their masterpieces in my blog, so here they are, kids!

Friends Over

It's the fourth day of the school holidays. My 5 year old son and my 10 year old daughter each have a friend over and it's beginning to sound like a war zone around here. Cushions are flying and.. tell me, why do kids need to scream so much to have a good time?

My son's friend asked if he can make Shrinki's and everyone is keen, so out came the trusty Shrinkibits shrink plastic supplies. The kids choose their cutout shrink plastic shapes and use the tracings along with their own ideas to create their original pieces ready to shrink.

The noise settles and is replaced with giggles and chatter.

Heaven.. time to grab a cuppa!

A batch ready to bake...

In the oven shrinking and starting to flatten...

Done and ready to attach to their schoolbags.

Shrink plastic tracing - monkey cutout

(You can buy the monkey cutout shape from the Shrinki Shop)

monkey/bird tracing sheet

press here to print

(Note: You can print in A4 or US Legal size. Make sure that "Actual size" is selected as the "Paper Size Option" to ensure that tracings match the size of your cutout shape.)

Shrink plastic tracing - elephant cutout

(You can buy the elephant cutout shape from the Shrinki Shop)

elephant tracing sheet

press here to print

(Note: You can print in A4 or US Legal size. Make sure that "Actual size" is selected as the "Paper Size Option" to ensure that tracings match the size of your cutout shape.)

A little of what's to come

I have loads of great shrink plastic projects coming up so stay tuned...