Craft Review: Family Fun "CD Spinners"

I really wanted to do a Fourth of July craft for you. I guess I have never actually done one with my girls. I found this craft for CD Spinners in the June/July 2010 issue of Family Fun Magazine, but it's also currently at familyfun.com as a Fourth of July craft idea. The CD Spinners they show are red, white, and blue in true patriotic fashion. But, alas, the ones we made tonight are not necessarily patriotic. They're just fun. So this craft can be done anytime, and the way you color it makes it patriotic or not. You could make them for Christmas, or Halloween, or whatever holiday or mood suits you.

You will need old CDs that you do not intend to ever use again
as a CD, large shooter marbles, plastic bottle caps, and glue.

At familyfun.com, you can download templates to use with swirly designs that will look really neat when it's spinning, but I found these templates to be too small. They didn't completely cover whatever was already on the face of our CDs. So we made our own templates by placing the CD on our card stock paper and tracing around the outside as well as the inner circle. Then we drew and colored our own designs, which will probably not look as cool while spinning. Oh well.

Once you have your template, create and/or color
your design.

Then cut it out. Don't forget to cut out
the inside circle, too.

Glue your design to the face of the CD. We just used
a regular glue stick.

Glue your marble to the other side of the CD, in the hole.
We used E-6000 glue. Family Fun recommends
Crafter's Pick The Ultimate. You'll have to let these glues
dry overnight. Or you can hot glue it for
faster results.

Glue your plastic bottle cap on the top center. I used the
E-6000 here, too.

Let your glue dry, how long depends on your glue. Then give it a spin! Mine works great, even after only a couple hours to dry. My girls love to draw, so they enjoyed creating their own design. And they'll love spinning, too, when they get up in the morning.

Gran... the frog one is for you.

"You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being" - Revelation 4:11