Shrinkle plastic question...

[misspollysdolly]

Can you photocopy a design onto plain Shrinkle/ shrink art plastic?? Does anyone know?!

Don't know-but you could try old fashioned tracing. That would def work.

I just need to do a large quantity for a children's craft church event... Lots if tracing if that's the only option...

Ah-not ideal. Sorry not to be able to help with the photocopying idea.

It would depend on how the sheet has to go through the photocopier (or printer) an how flexible the sheet is.

Not that I'm obsessed with tracing or anything...but could you photocopy the picture for them to trace? We have a cheapie set of shrinkles and that's what is provided with the set. Dd, 6, loves doing it.

Wouldn't the heat in the photocopier shrink the plastic anyway?

I don't think photocopiers get that hot do they? Not as hot as an oven or heat gun anyway.

They get fairly hot, likewise laser printers, but I have no idea what temperatures they reach. The process involves using heat to fuse pigmented plastic toner to paper after all. You have to use special "overhead projector" acetates in them, anyway. You might be able to use an inkjet printer.

You could let the kids do the tracing as part of the "excitement"?