Fidget Spinner Tricks, Hacks & Mods: Amaze Your Friends with Spectacular Spinner Secrets!

by Cara J. Stevens

Overview

Kids are obsessed with fidget spinners, unique, entertaining devices that are purported to help anxiety, ADHD, and other disorders, as well as generally distract or entertain kids, depending on how you look at it.

Introducing the first book that shows kids how to their fidget-spinning to the next level, which includes:

An introduction to fidget spinning

Beginner, intermediate, and advanced tricks

DIY spinner building and design instructions

Hack and modifications

And other tips and tricks that will make anyone a master spinner in no time!

From DIY spinners made from inexpensive ball bearings to flipping tricks and cool mods, this book be will be a hit with any fidget spinner-obsessed kid!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781631582493
Publisher:	Racehorse
Publication date:	07/11/2017
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	10 MB
Age Range:	9 - 14 Years

About the Author

Cara J. Stevens has a deep and abiding love for video games, science fiction and writing. She began her career designing interactive games and stories based on books and is happy to come full circle, creating stories based on video games. She has written more than a dozen other books for kids, including the novel Dragon School. When she's not writing or hanging out at the beach, she can be found playing pinball, WiiU, and classic Atari games. Cara lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two children, and a loud, fluffy dog named Oliver.
Cara J. Stevens has a deep and abiding love for video games, science fiction and writing. She began her career designing interactive games and stories based on books and is happy to come full circle, creating stories based on video games. She has written nine other books for kids, including the novel Dragon School. When she’s not writing or hanging out at the beach, she can be found playing pinball, WiiU, and classic Atari games. Cara lives in Old Greenwich, Connecticut with her husband, two children, and a loud, fluffy dog named Oliver.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 What is Fidget Spinning? 9

What's the big deal about spinners? 9

What you can do with a fidget spinner 9

What a fidget spinner is good for 9

What a fidget spinner can't do for you 10

Eight reasons people can't get enough 11

Five reasons parents and teachers want to throw fidget spinners out the window 11

Quiz: What type of fidgeter are you? 11

Rules of the road: A note about safety 13

Chapter 2 All about Fidget Spinners 14

How it all began 14

Kinds of spinners 15

What to look for in a good spinner 16

Spinner anatomy lesson 16

The physics behind the phun 18

Take away friction and the spinner will spin longer 19

All good spins must come to an end 19

All spinners are not created equal 20

The physics of sound: Why spinners hum when they spin 20

Experiments to try 21

You know more science than you think 22

Chapter 3 Tricks of the Trade 23

Master the art of fidget spinning … one awesome trick at a time 23

1- to 5-star tricks, in order of difficulty 24

Multiple-spinner tricks 52

Chapter 4 Game Time 57

Competitive spinning 57

Fidget spinner field goal 57

Fidget spinner hockey 58

Minute to win it challenges 59

Head-to-head competition 59

Group and party games 60

Chapter 5 Spinner DIY, Hacks, and Enhancements 62

DIY: Making your own spinners 62

Mods and hacks 73

Troubleshooting your spinner 73

How to be a spin doctor 73

Performance 75

Painting your spinner 77

Paint-free spinner designs 83

Master the art of showing off: Video tips 88

Fidget spinner etiquette 90

Appendix 91

Spinner Charts 93

Record Book 101

Editorial Reviews

"Why is fidgeting so hot? Because it's an adaptation to deskbound lifestyles. Society increasingly demands mental work while enforcing unhealthy, sedentary physical habits. Fidgeting is a way to cope." —WIRED

". . . a hula hoop for Generation Z." —The New York Times

"Fidget spinners are the must-have office toy for 2017."—Forbes

"It's hard to convey just how popular the fidget spinner is." The Independent

"Spinners might be new to the must-have toy aisle, but theyfive been a tool for teachers, guidance counselors and therapists for a while now." —CNN

"Fidget spinnersfithe trendy toy of the moment are causing a commotion. A lot of kids love them, just as many teachers hate them and some people think they're more than just toys." —NPR

"Fidget spinners are good." —Gizmodo

"Toys similar to fidget spinners have been around for years, but over the last month or so the current incarnation has reached fever pitch." —The Atlantic

". . . they have become a universally desirable accessory for tween-aged students." —The New Yorker

"Why is fidgeting so hot? Because it's an adaptation to deskbound lifestyles. Society increasingly demands mental work while enforcing unhealthy, sedentary physical habits. Fidgeting is a way to cope." —WIRED

". . . a hula hoop for Generation Z." —The New York Times

"Fidget spinners are the must-have office toy for 2017."—Forbes

"It's hard to convey just how popular the fidget spinner is." The Independent

"Spinners might be new to the must-have toy aisle, but theyfive been a tool for teachers, guidance counselors and therapists for a while now." —CNN

"Fidget spinnersfithe trendy toy of the moment are causing a commotion. A lot of kids love them, just as many teachers hate them and some people think they're more than just toys." —NPR

"Fidget spinners are good." —Gizmodo

"Toys similar to fidget spinners have been around for years, but over the last month or so the current incarnation has reached fever pitch." —The Atlantic

". . . they have become a universally desirable accessory for tween-aged students." —The New Yorker

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