A Crisp Keyring makes an unusual gift for the friend who has everything!
What you’ll need:
- An empty crisp packet
- Scissors or hole punch
- Baking Tray
- Oven
- Keyring loop
1: First, have a bag of crisps! Try to open the packet at the top as carefully as possible so as not to rip the packet more than necessary.
2: Once you’ve finished the crisps, make sure you’ve cleaned all the crumbs out of the bag and cut a hole in the top left hand corner, roughly the size of a 5 pence piece.
3: Place the bag on a baking tray and flatten out as well as possible .
4: Bake in a preheated oven (250 C) for around 10 mins, check every couple of minutes. The bag will begin to shrink!
5: After around 10 minutes, the crisp bag should be around 40-60mm wide. Remove from oven, flatten with the back of a spoon whilst still hot if any corners have folded over, and leave to cool for 5 minutes.
6: The bag will be a mini version of your favourite crisps! Once cool it becomes much harder than a normal crisp packet, and you can thread onto a keyring.
6 responses so far ↓
1 Natasha // Jan 15, 2008 at 9:48 am
I used to do this when I was a kid, not make the key rings, but shrink crisp packets! This is a great idea to make something completely unique!!
2 Louise // Jun 5, 2008 at 12:29 pm
I remember doing this as a child, I’m so glad I found your tips on how to do it again! What a wonderful way of recycling crisp packets.
3 Emma // Jul 24, 2008 at 11:50 am
I remember doing this at school!
its well good, i sopose you could even do choclate packets and sweets, like skittles and stuff?
4 hope // Aug 1, 2008 at 5:18 pm
i made one keyring and they are realy neat. now when i eat a paket of crisps i make it into a keyring. and i think it is a wonderfull way of recycleing beecause me myself made a video shown at the horth about climet change!
5 nicole // Mar 10, 2009 at 12:07 pm
dont try it in a microwave….. there are sparks every where, and it smells. We tried it once just as a matter of interest to see what happens lol
6 Gemma // Mar 28, 2009 at 6:27 pm
i havn’t tried doing it yet but its a great idea! whoever came up with it must have a great talent!!
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