Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A nostalgia-fueled DIY trend is bringing these magically shrinking kits back in style. Aleksandr Bushkov / Getty Images There is ...

What’s old is new again - Classic toy oven with modern appeal! NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Realizing the popular trend of retro toys, Big Time Toys has created a new child-safe oven which ...

Betty Morris poses with some of the hundreds of Shrinky Dinks products at the company’s headquarters in North Lake, Wis. Below, a Christmas Shrinky Dink ornament. MCT photo NORTH LAKE, Wis. — In 35 ...

A new method makes fabricating microfluidic devices almost as easy as child's play. Michelle Khine and her coworkers at the University of California, Merced, and UC Berkeley, use the children's toy ...

Just Play, a leading global toy company, recently announced the acquisition of two iconic children’s brands: Slinky and Shrinky Dinks. With long-standing legacies as award-winning products that ignite ...

If you haven’t kept up with novelties from the 1970s, you might be surprised to learn that Shrinky Dinks, plastic cutouts that shrink and harden into three-dimensional trinkets when baked in an oven, ...

When it comes to toys, usually only the newest with the coolest technology get hot. But Shrinky Dinks are proving the exception to the rule. The plastic that shrinks when you bake it, a favorite in ...

FAIRFIELD, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ALEX BRANDS® announced today that Shrinky Dinks® has joined its family of brands, which includes ALEX TOYS® , POOF®, SLINKY®, SCIENTIFIC EXPLORER®, IDEAL®, ZOOB®, ...

The first time artist Heather Bauer played with Shrinky Dinks, a craft toy popular in the 1970s, she was a kid. “I loved them,” she says. “You watched them bake and it was cool.” Now, adult Heather is ...

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Shrinky Dinks, the plastic toy that shrinks when you expose it to oven heat, has become the preferred material for lab equipment at Michelle Khine’s University of California Merced biology lab. Taking ...

There’s a small shrine to the Virgin of Guadalupe, a nightlight by illustrator Julie Hartley, and a picture of a martini glass by Meredith Chernick titled Shrinky-tini. Street artist Jason Vickers ...