Make Your Lemon Keychain
Your envelope came with a weird plastic hand drawn lemon. Here's how to shrink it, personalize it, and clip it to whatever you want.
Set your oven or toaster oven to 325°F.
Use a Sharpie or paint marker to write or draw on the printed side of your lemon. Make sure the hole is on the right when your lemon's stem is facing up. Put your name, your kid's name, a quote you love—whatever feels right.
Set your lemon on a piece of parchment paper. In a toaster oven, parchment paper alone is fine. In a full-sized oven, use a parchment-lined baking sheet.
Toaster oven: 30 seconds to 1 minute.
Full-sized oven: 1 to 3 minutes.
Watch it—your lemon will curl and warp as it shrinks. That's normal. Once it stops visibly shrinking, pull it out and immediately flatten it with a spatula or something heavy.
Let it cool for a few minutes, then loop the cord through the hole and clip it to your keys, your bag, your kid's backpack—wherever.
Tag me when you make yours! I want to see it in the wild.
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