Skinny Spin Chalk Spinner (credit: Kodo Kids)
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The Chalk Spinner 3-dimensional spinning chalkboard offers more opportunity for creative and interactive play than a regular, flat chalkboard table. Children must use interpersonal social skills to cooperate while decorating its cylindrical surface, and its ability to rotate adds new possibilities for how young artists can write and draw on it.
About the Chalk Spinner
Each Chalk Spinner is a brightly colored cylinder that rotates around a central axis. Because the entire surface is a chalkboard, children can draw all over its top and sides, creating interesting patterns and exploring the effects of motion whenever they draw on it while it spins.
Three Spins are available for purchase through the Kodo Kids Web site.
Kids use motion to create patterns on the top of a
Chalkboard Spinner. (credit: Kodo Kids)
- Six children can work at once to draw on The Big Spin, but it is easy enough to turn that one child can rotate it alone. It comes with a round chalkholder hole in the middle, three boxes of dust-free chalk, and two towels to use as erasers.
- Three children can fit around the Skinny Spin. It also comes with a round chalkholder hole in the middle, three boxes of dust-free chalk, and two towels.
- The Tubby Spin is a shorter, flat tabletop version of The Big Spin. It comes with two boxes of dust-free chalk and one towel.
Each spin is available in red, blue, purple, and green. Shoppers can also purchase chalk spinner accessories such as erasers, towels, extra boxes of dust-free chalk, and foam tiles of varying sizes to use as bases for the different Spins.
Kodo Kids tries to keep the manufacturing process of these educational toys as eco-friendly and free of waste as possible, constructing them in the USA from recycled wood fiber formaldehyde-free MDF and low-VOC paint.
Develop skills using the Chalk Spinner
Kids can work alone with the Chalk Spinner, practicing drawing or writing letters and numbers. They can also cooperate with a group of peers to create a shared work of art. Drawing on a moving surface develops gross-motor skills, coordination, and balance (needed to set the Chalk Spinner spinning) as well as fine-motor skills and an understanding of cause and effect.
And now, a video of the Chalk Spinner in use:
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