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The book evens include an alphabet that you can trace onto the Shrinky Dink paper.On a final note, we also bought a refill package of Shrinky Dink for ourselves. The images in the book are varied, greatly detailed and nicely colored. We noticed the refills are 8.5 x 11 inches; larger than the pages provided in the book.
I played with Shrinky Dinks as a child, and was happy to see they are still available. Even my sister in law showed great delight with this book, as she has had prior experience, too. Spencer and I chose this item for our eleven year old niece for Christmas.
We also chose to included a Shrinky Dinks Refill Pack as the book only contains eight pages of Shrinky Dink paper to use. Why should the children have all the fun. My niece was delighted to receive this book and exclaimed with joy that she and a friend had "done these before".
She seemed eager to dive into the book soon.
The first few dinks my daughter did with crayola brand markers (NOT WASHABLE) and the ink kept rubbing off even after baking. We ordered this item for our 6 year old daughter, and she loves it. I only wish that this book came with a small selection of accessories (ie: key loops, jewelry hooks, and thread), like some of the other Klutz activity books do. If you want to use markers, Sharpie brand seem to work the best (We use them to outline the drawing). It is just like when we were kids,but you get to design your own drawings. It does seem to work better with colored pencils rather then markers.
The book itself is very sturdy. This is a great book for ages 8 through 14. The shrinky-dink projects range from easy to very hard and there is enough variety of pictures from which to choose.
The 5 year old needed some help tracing the pictures, but was able to color them in with colored pencils and do some of the cutting out. I remember doing shrinky dinks as a kid and decided to give them to all the children in our family who were gathering for the holidays. It was a memorable holiday for all. I am really pleased with the book and the response that it received. It was a huge hit. There were children ages 5-12 and this was something they all enjoyed.
We had a blast making shrinky dinks and it brought back a lot of memories. We had great fun with shrinky dinks when my children were little, so I purchased this book and material for my grandchildren.
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