Spirograph

Pros: Intriguing, Child-led Fun, Nostalgic
Cons: You will need more paper!

Pros: great set for using creativity and imagination
Cons: small pieces can be lost

I love Spirograph. I had a set as a child, and I remember spending many hours sitting at the kitchen table making beautiful designs. My mother even framed many of them for me. Recently, I bought spirograph for a niece of mine. I spent some time using...

Pros: Develops and Improves Motor Skills and Imaginations. Affordable Price.
Cons: Should come with a variety of colored pens and paper

Fully aware that Spirograph had been in existence for many years because I am currently 27 and I recall playing with it when I was a little girl. It was not until after Santa gave the Spirograph to my oldest son, Dillion that I discovered...

Pros: Fun for the little artist in everyone!
Cons: Only comes with one color pen :(

When I was a child I was given a Spirograph by my Grandparents. I loved the kit, and played with it for hours. My brother and I would make great works of art and my mom would display them on the front of the refridgerator being held by magnets. Finally...

Pros: Adaptability, Geometric prospective
Cons: Options of shapes

This is still enjoyable for me to sit down with my 7yr. old niece and make some designs and color. I waited for a while at first and took things really slow with my niece, I did'nt want to scare her or discourage her from trying this. She enjoys...

Pros: Designs limited to your imagination
Cons: Doesn't anchor as well as in the 1960's

I bought my oldest son a spirograph, after remembering how much fun mine was. I noticed that they had made some changes since I was kid. One thing that I noticed is that the way to anchor the main wheel to the paper is different. The old way included...

Pros: neverending combinations to make original artwork, no artistic ability necessary, makes you think to get the patterns you want, hours of fun!
Cons: occasionally wheels will "skip" or come loose, pens come out of holes in mid-draw

The Exploratorium in San Francisco has a huge version of this wonderful toy. A lot of other children's museums do, too. At the Exploratorium you could choose different colored markers to go inside of a large pendulum-type "pen" that would...

Pros: fun...easy to use..
Cons: addicting.. I mean I still use it....LOL

I had one of these when I was young. My parents bought it for me at a flea market. First of all I was disappointed it had no directions and my parents had no idea what to do with it.. They knew when they bought it that it was a drawing thing thats why...

Pros: Fun for everyone, easy to use
Cons: Not enough gears come with it!

My son was given a Spirograph set this year for his birthday, and instantly I was taken back to my childhood, as I was given this very same toy for my birthday many years ago!

The Spirograph set consists of a 1 drawing template, 7 gears (or...

Pros: Creates many different, unique designs, Fun for all ages
Cons: Pieces easily lost

I loved my Spirograph set as a child! (Actually I had several during the course of my youth). It always managed to occupy me for hours on end. It's deceptively simple, too, because it actually takes some skill to be able to master. Needless to say, my...

Pros: Gives the child an avenue foro creating all kinds of things!
Cons: None

I loved this toy as a child and I still love it today! My daughter is 11 years old and wanted one of these after she played with one at a friend's house. It shocked me because I didn't think they were around anymore. On my next visit to Wal-Mart, I...

Pros: ease of use, artistic slant
Cons: small pieces easy to lose

Spirograph is timeless. Big and little gears make endless arrays of crazy patterns on your paper.
I had one of these when I was a kid and recently my daughter was given one. Months later, she still plays with it and our refrigerator is decorated...

Pros: inexpensive, teaches hand-eye coordination, grasping pens
Cons: little pieces can be lost easily

Growing up I loved Spirograph! It came with 4 different colored pens, and I spend HOURS making swirling, looping patterns to stick on the fridge. I came across a dilemma earlier this year when my children started kindergarten. You see I have identical...

Pros: hours of fun/classic design game
Cons: small parts/bad pens

What goes around and around and makes a cool design? Spirograph! It worked for me years ago (I won't say how many) and it works today for my two sons.
Spirograph is a great toy for hours of fun. My sons love to use it in the van on long trips....

Pros: inexpensive, easy to use, develops motor skills
Cons: some small parts, may get lost

I always loved my Spirograph when I was a child. I remember feeling oh, so artistic, because I was creating these beautiful colorful designs. As I recall it made for hours of creative inexpensive fun. (my sisters and I would play art museum)
When...