Alex Fantastic Spinner Kids Art and Craft Activity

This brought back so many great memories for me from growing up. I used to do spin art constantly and had so much fun. This Christmas I wanted to share the fun with my kids and got it for them. I have a 5 year old and two year old and both were able to both spin the wheel on their own and create the painting on their own. I love that my boys get to spin the wheel as fast or slow as they want by squeezing the grip with their left hand...while painting with their right. Although often my two year old spins with both hands and squirts the paint with both while the wheel is still spinning, but that works too! They love seeing them have fun playing with the different spinning speed. Different speeds create different patterns and its fun to play with. You have to squeeze the paints for it to come out..which is nice because all the paint doesn't come pouring out when you turn them upside down. And the paints last! The bottles look small but they go a long way! It's also super easy to clean wipe it down with a wet paper towel and you're good to go! Even better it doesn't have batteries so you can run it under water if you have a lot of paint on it. The shield to keep paint inside the spinner works great, although you do have to try to be careful not to touch it. It is just a thin circular piece of plastic and easily moves around if touched. Overall a great product though, my boys and I all love it!

The first three or four papers we painted were pastel -- I thought at first that the paint was just very thin, but it turned out that the paint had settled, so the bottles needed to be shaken to mix it back together. D'oh! After shaking, the paint was bright. We tried spinning while dripping the paint slowly, quickly, moving the bottles while dripping the paint, and my favorite, putting globs of paint in the middle of the paper while it was sitting still, then starting up the spinner. We had no trouble with paint bouncing back out, and quickly stopped using the flimsy plastic cover, with no issues. The papers do have some paint on the edges when you take them out of the spinner to dry, so we put them on newspaper and not directly on the table. Also, my 5-year-old needed help getting the paper into the holder. But spinning it wasn't a problem, and for us, 5 was old enough to spin it with one hand and work with the paint bottles with the other hand. A lot of fun, we painted some of the back sides of the papers after the fronts were dry. If you wash it out in the sink, try not to get water on the inside, I suspect it may rust if you do. The instructions say to wipe it with a soft damp cloth. The paint does stain the toy, and other hard surfaces, and I suspect it may not wash out of light-colored clothes completely, so be careful of that as well.

This we got for my daughter for a gift. It was easy to use... It was frustrating that we ran out of paper quickly and you need a specific size thus have to re-order which I don't love. It worked though as designed. Also the paint runs out... so overall I was kinda dismayed. but it is described well and does work .

I have used battery powered versions of spin art doohickies before. They tend to drain batteries quickly and are less durable.This feels like cheap plastic out of the box, but it's happily misleading. It's actually very durable and the hand powered spinner is both easy enough for a 4 year old to control and strong enough not to break when a 4 year old controls it.I gave this to a 7 year old for Christmas. The 7 year old, her 5 year old sister, and my 3 year old daughter decended on teh box and tore into it like a pack og cougars lays into a fallen gazell. I was sure nothing would come out of that pile in tact, biut sure eough the 3 of them (not gracefully) got the spin art toy out of the box and assembled by themselves quickly, easily, adn without breaking it.Then they proceeded to play with it for an hour, each one wanting to show how they could spin it faster than the others. None of them manged to break it! (And believe me, they were trying!)They had an absolute blast with it too. All 3 kids of various ages were thrilled to play with it and loved the toy from the start.It's cheap. It's creative. It's a winner.

This spinner is really fun and entertaining for my 5 year old who is normally pretty bored with art activities.The good: My kid has to manually make it spin and drop paint onto the paper at the same time. He can adjust the results by playing with the speed of the spinner and how much paint gets dropped.The bad: My kid got REALLY into it and used up all the paint during his first play session. He wasn’t very happy that it was all gone so quickly. It is also tricky to get the paper in the spinner holder so I can’t leave my kid alone with it for too long. It’s hard to make dinner while he’s doing this activity because I get paint on my hands when I’m changng out the paper.Overall: it’s really fun and totally worth the price. If you can, buy the refill pack when you buy the spinner.

I must say I bought this as a Valentine gift for my 1st grader and not only does he love it but I do!! It's so fun to play with. He is unable to do this himself yet because you need to power the spin with one hand and drip the paint with the other. I know soon enough he will be able to create these himself though. I usually just spin it for him and he decides which colors to use and he really takes his time figuring out where to put the drips to make them look so cool. Great craft buy! I plan on taking this to the family dinner on Friday to share with his cousins to let them try it. I have a feeling I will be buying at least one more of these, probably at least two. These work just like the ones you see at the flea markets where you can pay to create your own paint spinner art. Just a mini kid size version. I love it. Seriously. Don't hesitate to buy.

Amazing paint spinner was purchased as a gift. It arrived so quickly and was a huge hit. I highly recommend.

We're an arty family who love making all kinds of stuff. We don't usually go for art kits because they're often flimsy, fussy and prescriptive. We prefer more open ended creative activities and love a bit of process art. We saw this on a blog and the family using it raved about it and used it with pens and other materials in addition to the ones supplied with the kit. At about 17 quid it's pricey but we gave it a go. We had a fun hour or so playing with it. It's easy to set up and operate and gives quick and exhilarating results. However, having exhausted the permutations of the supplied paints we wanted to experiment with the spinner and different materials, but this didn't really work out. Coloured pens gave scratchy and unexciting marks unless you pressed hard and then that stopped the spinner. We tried neon paints and non primary colours but it was really hard to get the consistency right and pretty soon the marks generated by the spinner just felt repetitive. We like ways of making art and marks that have some degree of process or accident that can then be altered or controlled into something more personal to the individual but with this set we found that everyone's work looked pretty much the same. We had vague plans to assemble the finished splatters into a collage but we've never got that far. We did take the spinner out one more time and have another go but didn't manage to make any more interesting marks with it so it has sat on the shelf ever since.In conclusion, this isn't a bad kit as it's sturdy and simple and nice to use but its possibilities are limited and ultimately not that creative. It might a fun item to have in an early years classroom, to bring out once a year with as a group activity, but for us, it didn't work as a repeat activity for the over 5s.

I ordered this for my godsons (aged 4 and 7) and they absolutely loved it. It's really easy to use, thought maybe a little tricky to do it on their own - they really struggled getting the paper to clip into the spinner. But once it was set up they had so much fun that it was difficult to get them to stop.The only down side was that a lot of paint comes out the tubes quite quickly so you get through it very fast. But other than that I can't fault it.

My grandkids love this spinner. It is so great because it takes no batteries and is so easy for the kids to get it spinning by themselves. Also nice to be a spinner helper when they are adding the paint.

I brought this for the daycare I work at and a boy named Alec loved it because it has his name on the box already.