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Spirograph Jr. Set
Four jumbo gears, five washable markers and a carry-along design desk.
The Original Spirograph: one more loop, and the design closes
Press a ring to the paper, drop a wheel inside, put a pen through a hole and push. Round and round you go, and somewhere past the twentieth lap the line meets its own beginning. We have been boxing up that moment since 1965.
- The original since 1965
- 24 sets, ages 3 to grown-up
- No pins, no holes
Pick your kind of loop
Find a set by age
A three-year-old and a thirty-year-old both want the spiral to come out right. They just need different wheels to get there.
Jumbo gears in a fixed frame. Push the marker round and a spiral appears.
Spirograph Jr. Collectors Tin
Jr. in a hinged tin that opens into a built-in drawing desk.
Spirograph Jr. Bluey
Jumbo gears plus Bluey sticker sheets to finish every spiral with a friend.
Spirograph Jr. Toy Story
Storytelling scene paper and Toy Story stickers with the jumbo Jr. gears.
Enclosed wheels and built-in rings, so nothing slips and nothing gets lost.
Spirograph Cyclex Studio Bluey
The self-advancing Cyclex tool in Bluey colours, with stickers and 20 design sheets.
Cyclex Clip Mickey Mouse
A clip-on Cyclex with Mickey on the front, for bags and belt loops.
Travel Spirograph
A pocket studio with the design ring, work surface and storage built in.
Spirograph Mini Gift Tin
Six wheels, a ring and three markers in a four-inch tin.
Loose wheels, rings and putty: the full classic experience.
Spirograph Deluxe Set
19 wheels, 2 rings and a rack in a carry case with its own drawing surface.
Spirograph Kit with Markers
The 19-wheel classic with eight markers in the box, so colour is sorted from lap one.
Spirograph Design Set Collectors Tin
Seven wheels, a ring and a rack in a slim tin that slides into any bag.
Spirograph Cyclex Design Set
A rotating stencil wheel that advances itself after every trace.
Metal wheels, throwback boxes and frames big enough for artwork you will hang.
Spirograph Die-Cast Collector's Set
Nine golden die-cast metal wheels and a metal ring in a display tin.
Spirograph Retro Deluxe Set
The Deluxe line-up in commemorative throwback packaging, just as you remember it.
Super Spirograph Design Set
Twice the gears plus snap-together Spiro-Tracks for shapes no ring can make.
Spirograph Mandala Maker
Click-in wheels and stencils on a 13-inch frame for layered mandalas.
The sets families reach for first
Our most-drawn-with boxes, from the full Deluxe to the tin that lives in the glove box.
Spirograph Deluxe Set
19 wheels, 2 rings and a rack in a carry case with its own drawing surface.
Spirograph Jr. Set
Four jumbo gears, five washable markers and a carry-along design desk.
Spirograph Design Set Collectors Tin
Seven wheels, a ring and a rack in a slim tin that slides into any bag.
Super Spirograph Design Set
Twice the gears plus snap-together Spiro-Tracks for shapes no ring can make.
Spirograph Die-Cast Collector's Set
Nine golden die-cast metal wheels and a metal ring in a display tin.
Spirograph Kit with Markers
The 19-wheel classic with eight markers in the box, so colour is sorted from lap one.
Spirograph Cyclex Design Set
A rotating stencil wheel that advances itself after every trace.
Spirograph Mandala Maker
Click-in wheels and stencils on a 13-inch frame for layered mandalas.
The classic way to create countless amazing designs
Three moves, the same three since the first box left the factory. Everything else is which wheel, which hole and which colour comes next.
Set the ring
Press a ring onto the paper with a few pinches of our reusable putty. It holds firm, lifts off clean and leaves the sheet without a single hole.
Drop in a wheel
Mesh the wheel's teeth with the ring's, pick one of the numbered holes and put the pen tip through. A hole near the edge draws wide loops; one near the centre draws tight ones.
Go round and round
Push the wheel along the ring, keeping the teeth engaged. Each lap lays a new loop beside the last until the line arrives back where it began and the design closes.
The pattern chart: one ring, eight wheels
Every wheel has its tooth count moulded in. Run it inside the 96-tooth side of the ring and the teeth decide how many points the design will have before you have drawn a line. Here is hole one of eight wheels.
Spirograph pattern chartRing 96 · hole 1 · wheel number and number of points
Points = 96 divided by the largest number that goes into both tooth counts. Wheel 45 shares only a 3 with the ring, so it takes 32 points to close. Wheel 32 shares 32, and closes after three. How the tooth counts work
Heard around the drawing table
Real words from people who bought a set, copied exactly as they wrote them.
Fun for 5-year-old or older.
My 5-year-old granddaughter had never seen one and was not excited at first. When she learned to use it she did not stop creating and insisted on showing me how to make my own creations. It was fun!
Super cute!
Super fun birthday gift idea! Awesome for little hands and a great value for the money!
Perfect Throwback Kit
Such a fun blast from the past. As a kid, we just jumped in and did it. I had no idea there were actually directions and designs to create. I got this for myself as an Artist's Way artist date and am having fun. PS. I'm in my 50's.
Fantastic
Love this Spirograph. The wheels are fixed in the circles. Excellent designs.
Love it!
This was a blast from my past. It has metal parts and works very smoothly.
Blast from the past
Grew up with Spirograph. Decided I wanted to recapture the fun so I ordered this. I highly recommend it. It's relaxing and they improved it by upgrading the pens that you use.
Things to know before the first lap
What age is a Spirograph good for?
There is a set for nearly every age. Spirograph Jr. is made for ages 3 and up, with jumbo gears held in a fixed frame. Cyclex Clips and the Bluey Cyclex Studio suit ages 5 and up. The classic gear sets, with loose wheels, rings and putty, are recommended for ages 8 and up, and plenty of them are bought by adults for themselves.
What year did Spirograph come out?
Spirograph was introduced in 1965. British engineer Denys Fisher developed the drawing wheels and showed them at the Nuremberg toy fair that year. Our current sets are inspired by that original 1965 design, re-engineered for today.
Is there a Spirograph for adults?
Yes. The Die-Cast Collector's Set, with nine golden metal wheels in a display tin, was made with grown-up collectors in mind. The Retro Deluxe reproduces the throwback box, the Super Spirograph adds Spiro-Tracks for complex layouts, and Mandala Maker gives you a 13-inch frame for artwork worth hanging.
Is Spirograph still made?
Very much so. We make the classic sets, Jr. sets, Cyclex tools and newer ideas such as the Giant Spirograph and the Electronic Spirograph Machine. All current sets are listed here with a button to our shop.
What pens work with Spirograph?
The wheels in our current sets are engineered to work with the pens in the box and with most standard pens, markers and pencils. Fine-tipped pens give the crispest lines. Put a spare sheet underneath if your pen might bleed through.
From the design guide
How a Spirograph works, lap by lap
Rings, wheels and the tooth-count trick behind every design, plus six habits that keep the wheel from slipping.
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Which Spirograph for which age
What a three-, five- and eight-year-old can each manage, and the box that suits them. Grown-ups included.
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Spirograph since 1965: a short history in loops
How an engineer's drawing wheels became one of the best-known toys in the world, and what has changed in the box.
Continue reading →Spirograph drawing sets, from the first jumbo gear to the die-cast wheel
Spirograph is a geometric drawing toy: a toothed wheel rolls around the inside or outside of a toothed ring, a pen rides in a hole in the wheel, and the curve it leaves behind is a perfect, repeating spiral design. British engineer Denys Fisher developed it and showed it to the toy trade in 1965. It has been on kitchen tables ever since, and it is the reason a certain kind of looping rosette is known everywhere simply as a spirograph drawing.
Today the original Spirograph design set comes in more shapes than the first box ever did. The Spirograph Deluxe Set carries nineteen precision wheels, two rings and a rack in a case with its own work surface. The Design Set Tin slims the idea down to seven wheels for travel. Super Spirograph adds snap-together Spiro-Tracks for shapes beyond the circle, and the Die-Cast Collector's Set recasts the wheels in metal.
For younger artists, Spirograph Jr. scales the gears up for ages three and over and swaps pens for washable markers, while Spirograph Cyclex seals the stencil wheels inside a tool that advances by itself, a spiral art kit that suits five-year-olds and car journeys. Cyclex Clips put the same mechanism on a backpack strap.
Every kit is a quiet STEAM activity: art on the surface, ratios and common factors underneath. Children practise hand-eye coordination and concentration; adults get a pleasantly absorbing spiral drawing set and, often, a jolt of nostalgia. Choose a set by age, by size or by how many wheels you want in the tray, and start with one loop.
A blank page is only one loop away from a design
Browse every Spirograph set in our shop, pick the box that fits your table, and give your art a spin.