Build Fidget Spinner yourself: How it works

No other toy is as popular in schools as the "Fidget Spinner". This practical tip shows you how you can easily build such a fidget spinner yourself.

Build Fidget Spinner: Materials and Tools

To be able to build a Fidget Spinner yourself, you need the following materials and tools:

5 bottle caps (preferably made of plastic)
1 hot glue gun with hot glue or an alternative glue that can also glue plastic
1 black pen, which can also be used to write on plastic
1 wooden stick (e.g. toothpick)

Build the basic form of the Fidget Spinner

Now you can start building the basic shape of the Fidget Spinner from bottle caps. We also show you all the steps in our picture gallery at the end of the article.

Make a hole in two bottle caps and glue them together on the flat side. Be careful not to glue the hole.
When the glue has dried, lay the bottle caps glued together flat and place three more evenly around them.
Mark the positions of the three bottle caps using a black pen on the bottle caps glued together.
Now glue the three bottle caps in place.

Build the swivel

Is the basic shape finished and well dried? Then you can start giving the Fidget Spinner a little "swivel".

Push a wooden stick (e.g. a toothpick) through the hole in the middle and cut it so that it protrudes slightly.
Finally, make some glue on both ends of the wooden stick. Pay special attention here that the wooden stick can still turn afterwards. The adhesive is there to prevent the wooden stick from falling out.
Now you can hold your DIY fidget spinner on the wooden stick and start spinning it.

Would you like more DIY tips? We will show you in the next practical tip how you can build a cell phone pocket yourself from a sock.