DIY Mother’s Day Keychains

Here is a cute DIY craft for Mother’s Day. Homemade gifts are the best, perfectly inexpensive and they let your babies show off their creative side. What better way to make you feel super special and loved by your little ones! This year for Mother’s Day, we made Shrinky Dink keychains for all the moms in our lives. Shrinky Dink is an arts and crafts paper made of a special type of plastic that can be colored on, that shrinks and hardens when put in the oven. Colorful keychains, necklaces, pins and much more can be created. Gather your kids around the craft table to create super cute keychains! Hey, maybe you’ll end up making one too. I promise Shrinky Dink can be fun for the whole family!

Supplies:

• Shrinky Dink Paper
• Scissors
• Colored Sharpie Markers
• Hole punch
• Keychain ring or chain
• Cookie sheet
• Wax or Parchment paper

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 325
2. Draw your images on a blank sheet of paper or use a printed template.
3. Place the Shrinky dink paper on top of the designs and trace the images.
4. Cut out images, making sure to leave a small uncolored boarder. (the Shrinky dink can sometimes break around the edges)
5. Hole punch the image on the top.
6. Place your cutouts on the cookie sheet, colored side facing up.
7. Put in the oven. Make sure you have the oven light on so that your kids…and you can watch it shrink!
8. It will shrink in less than a minute. Wait 30 more seconds after it shrinks for it to flatten back out. (If it doesn’t flatten all the way go ahead and take a spatula to flatten while it is still warm.)
9. Let cool for 10 minutes.
10. Place key chain link through the hole.
11. Wrap or put in a decorative bag to give as a present.

Happy Mother’s Day to all the wonderful Mamas out there!