How to Make Spiral Art on a Spirogiro

The Spirogiro is a children's drawing toy similar to a spirograph or mandela. The Spirogiro uses different colored gears for dfferent designs. It includes a blue gear for geometric shapes, an orange gear for stenciling mandela-style drawings and a green gear for nature shapes, such as leaves, moons and flowers. The set also includes several yellow gears to make spiral designs. Putting your pencil in each hole on the yellow gear and rotating the gear will make a different design. You can use the patterns in the manual to draw spiral designs, or create your own spiral art.

Things You'll Need

• Yellow gears
• Spirogiro manual
• Markers

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Instructions

1. • 1

     Lift the lid of the Spirogiro and place the paper underneath. Close the lid. You will see the paper exposed in the round opening on the top of the Spirogiro.

   • 2

     Lay the yellow gear inside the circle on top of the Spirogiro.

   • 3

     Put your pencil tip into a hole. Rotate the gear around the circle on the Spirogiro with the pressure from your pencil. Your pencil lead will draw a pattern as this happens.

   • 4

     Use other gears or holes to create patterns. Continue layering patterns until you are happy with the result.

   • 5

     Use markers to trace over the pattern, or to decorate your spiral art.