Paper Spinner Toys

Reward: Shake Up Silver!

  • Paper
  • Card
  • String
  • Pens
  • Scissors
  • Glue stick
  • Optional – free templates

Either print out two circles from the templates above OR get a small paper plate (approx 10-12cm in diamater and draw two circles).

Colour in your circles any way you wish. The colours will “mix” on any concentric circles. (see video for the effect). Be bold and experiment with different designs and patterns.

Cut our your circles.

Stick the first circle on some cardboard.

Cut out the cardboard circle now.

Stick the second circle on to the back.

Make two small holes (approx 1cm apart, if not 8mm) on either side of the centre of the circle – the templates have markings for this.

Thread string approx 40cm in length through and tie.

Download free templates:

BLANK TEMPLATES (with patterns) 

COLOUR THEORY TEMPLATES 

Have a go at spinning!!

This Paper Spinner really shows colour theory well – you can see how the outer red/ yellow rim turns orange, the blue/ yellow goes a light blue/ green and the red/blue turns a lovely purple. Awesome colour wheel theory exploration!

WHITE LIGHT: when this rainbow spinner is going fast enough it actually appears as white every so often – confirming that “white light” is made up of all the colours of the rainbow. For an accurate “white light”, you would probably have to adjust the proportion of each colour correctly, as well as get it spinning really fast.

Fuente: Red Ted Art