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SpinTots

Spin a disc and two pictures become one.

Getting ready…

🌷 Make it grow: a four-picture flip →

Meet the cast — the characters who teach this

  • Whirl spins a two-picture disc so fast that the pictures swap again and again
  • Joiny A cat with patient eyes - when two pictures swap fast, your eyes join them into one
  • Crease A paper mouse who folds - one cut and two folds make paper that pops out and moves
  • Beaky A puffin beak card - fold the card shut and open it, and the beak opens to talk

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A very old toy

Spinning pictures are about two hundred years old: a toy like this was sold in London in 1825. A favourite picture is a bird on one side and a cage on the other. Spin it, and the bird is in the cage.

The Thaumatrope, published in London, 1825.