Super Spirographing: Keys 1822 - 1833

I loved playing with the Super Spirograph set my mom bought my brothers and I in the early 70’s. I was pretty happy to find a Spirograph set at the Michael’s store so that I could re-interpret keys through that fun childhood craft. The set I had as a kid was more deluxe (i.e. more fancy parts to make different configurations for the wheels to travel around). The new/modern set uses putty instead of pins to hold the Spirograph rings in place. There were also some different shaped (triangle and quad types) design makers beyond the usual circles. Of course I still slipped up and had unwanted pen lines. And although I didn’t have any fancy gel pens I did have a few pens that worked on black cardstock. I also bought a Klutz Spiro Draw set (which was quite a bit easier to use) and a mini Spiro draw set (which was a smaller copy of the Klutz design).

The most fun I had was when I used the sets as a base and then just doodled around. I had a very difficult time lining the designs up and getting them exactly where I wanted them. Oh well. I’m more of a “let’s try this” person than a “careful, I’m good at this” person.

Here are the Spiro inspired keys from my latest installment of “keys made using childhood craft methods”: