For the Camp Nerd Games Arts and Crafts Club this month, the required supply was a (provided) round cookie cutter. Instead of doing anything normal with it, I decided it needed to be the base for a DIY Spirograph.
I originally punched various sizes of circles out of an old tea box and made pen holes with my awl, though I quickly realized 1) the discs were too thin to stay inside the ring and 2) round templates in a round ring just draw circles.
But with some reinforcement and semi-strategic chopping, I got a workable (if pattern-limited) Spirograph.
It’s minutes of fun for the whole family!
Despite the smeariness and uneven patterning (turns out the teeth and raised templates of the real Spirograph are clutch), I’m pretty happy with it as a proof of concept. Thanks for looking!
(This project not endorsed by Spirograph. Or MacGyver.)
