The kids, with Antie’s help (who is killed by a scorpion), finally reach the house. They climb up the patio, using a Cheerio as a stepping stool. As Wayne operates his portable shrink ray in the yard, the kids—now inside the house—are accidentally caught in the beam’s expansion field and begin growing back to normal size in the kitchen, destroying the table and floor.
The story begins when Wayne finally gets his machine to work, accidentally shrinking Nick, Amy, and the two Russell boys to a quarter of an inch tall. The miniature teens are then swept up in the trash and dumped in the overgrown backyard jungle. The film follows their epic struggle to survive giant insects, deadly lawnmowers, and a perilous journey back to the house, while Wayne, unaware they are alive, mistakenly believes they ran away and throws the shrunken kids away again—this time in a garbage bag. Act 1: The Shrinking Wayne demonstrates his "Electro-Magnetic Reducing Machine" to a skeptical scientific committee, but it fails, destroying his office. Dejected, he returns home. That night, while cleaning his lab, he accidentally activates the machine just as Nick and Ron (who broke in to retrieve a baseball) are in the beam's path. A stray baseball then hits the machine's control panel, causing it to fire a second time, shrinking Amy and Little Russ, who had come looking for the others. The four kids, now 1/4-inch tall, are swept up in dust and thrown into the trash by Diane. Honey I Shrunk the Kids
Meanwhile, their next-door neighbors, the Russells, include the gruff construction worker (Matt Frewer), his wife Mae (Kristine Sutherland), and their two athletic sons: Ron (Joshua Shalikar) and the younger, larger Little Russ (Thomas Wilson Brown). The kids, with Antie’s help (who is killed