Make the eco-friendly spinning top: you will have fun with children and physics!

You will have fun with children and physics!
Building a spinning top with recycled materials is not just a creative activity: it is a complete educational experience that combines manual skills, environmental sustainability, play and science. In an era in which children are often surrounded by electronic and disposable toys, proposing a simple workshop, made with hands and with poor materials, has enormous value.

The spinning top is one of the oldest toys of mankind. It is found in civilizations very distant from each other – from ancient Greece to pre-Columbian cultures – and continues to fascinate because, despite its simplicity, it challenges our intuition: why does it not fall? Why does it run so long? Why does it change behavior if we make it run faster?

In this article, we’ll look at:

how to make an eco-sustainable spinning top with recycled materials;

how to adapt the activity to different ages;

How to turn the game into a physics lab;

Because this experience is valuable from an educational and emotional point of view.

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