Shrunken Heads Lapel Pivot For Father's Day!

 Here's a uncomplicated together with fun Father's 24-hour interval projection for the kids to do.
 Shrunken Heads lapel Pin (necklace, earrings keychain or magnets!)
Hilarious lilliputian heads turned into quirky jewelry!  :)

You'll require to a greater extent than or less excited kids or you'll require to live actually excited yourself!
(I'll admit, I was together with so excited, the kids didn't larn to attention at all...they simply watched them bake inwards the oven...)

Other supplies:
Shrink plastic
Computer/printer
photos/editing software
scissors
oven
baking sheet
Your pick of: pivot back, lapel pin, outpouring ring, keychain, magnets, earring hooks...etc.

First nosotros got to a greater extent than or less headshots of each of the kids.
We used photoshop together with the lasso tool to pick out simply the heads.
You could purpose complimentary software similar pixlr.

Create a page that is the same size equally your shrink plastic together with adapt the heads accordingly.
I overlapped my three kiddo's heads for the lapel pin.

Then nosotros printed out a re-create on regular impress paper.
I could gauge the size together with brand certain the images jibe on the plastic.

Then printed them out on shrinky dink or shrink plastic...
(wow...can yous tell dust?)

Print together with so the ink prints on the fossil oil side of the plastic...
the coloring volition stick to the fossil oil side.

Then cutting them out.
Leave a house for a large hole if yous are making
 a necklace or a keychain...
The hole needs to live slightly larger than a large hole punch...
together with so I did it well-nigh iv times brand a subtle clover shape.

Place them fossil oil side upwards on a cookie sheet...bake at 350* for 

1 to v minutes...you gotta sentinel them unopen because it goes fast!

 They volition gyre upwards similar a bowl...but don't panic!
 They volition reflatten...that agency they are ready!
Pull them out of the oven together with allow them cool well-nigh v minutes.

 Here's the earlier together with afterwards together with so yous tin hand the sack run into how much it shrinks!

(they tell well-nigh 200% shrinkage)

Add a pivot dorsum or a outpouring telephone or a magnet!  

We simply glued it on amongst to a greater extent than or less E6000...

shows through a lilliputian bit, but no biggy.

There are lots of possibilities for these lilliputian Shrunken heads!

 The shiny plastic makes glare together with is thence difficult to photograph...but yous larn the idea!

 Nothing quite equally cool equally a necklace amongst your ain caput on it!

  So nosotros simply pinned it on daddy's lapel of his church building suit...
together with we'll expect together with run into his reaction on Dominicus morning!  :)

 Hope yous enjoyed our fabulously empty-headed Father's 24-hour interval craft!

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