Diy Candy Bicycle Of Fortune!

Make a spinning candy bicycle for trick-or-treaters! Also neat every bit a mini carnival game :-).

I spent weeks trying to come upward up amongst an slow agency to brand a process wheel. I wanted something substantial-looking that could hold upward used from twelvemonth to year, non flimsy cardboard or poster board. 

After looking at lazy Susans too turn-table bearings, I woke upward inward the middle of the nighttime amongst a super idea! Use a spinning desk chair!

After you're done using this every bit a spinning wheel, but topographic point the chair dorsum together :-).

Supplies:

• Spinning Desk chair
• Round tabular array come about
• 9 3-inch Screws
• 4 Large-head Screws
• Screwdriver / Electric Drill
• Wrench
• Chalkboard Paint
• 120 or 220 grit Sand Paper
• Scissors
• Yarn or String
• Painter's Tape
• Chalk
• Long Stick / Weed grabber
• Clear Packing tape
• Cereal Box

Find an onetime desk chair. You wish a chair that spins freely. I bought this ane at Goodwill for $7!

Buy an unfinished tabular array come about at your local hardware shop OR honour a circular terminate tabular array at a thrift shop too cutting off the legs. I bought a 28" broad tabular array for $5 at Goodwill.

Remove the topographic point hardware. Put all the pieces inward a purse too hence that y'all tin ship away topographic point the chair dorsum together again, if desired.

Cover the tabular array come about amongst iii coats of Chalkboard Paint (I used Rustoleum). Lightly sand betwixt coats.

Season the tabular array come about past times rubbing it amongst chalk too an onetime t-shirt.

Secure the tabular array come about to the base of operations amongst large-head screws. Make certain the large-head screws are no longer than the tabular array thickness.

Cut 4 pieces of yarn. Tape them across the tabular array come about too hence y'all tin ship away come across the sections. Tape the ends uner the table.

They don't necessitate to hold upward evenly spaced - y'all could brand pocket-sized slivers equal bigger prizes!

Make a chalk score where the lines intersect. This should hold upward the optic of the table. Tape the string to the side, away from the mark. Place a screw on the mark.

Mark your yarn lines amongst chalk. Place screws on the marks.

Cut yarn pieces six or seven feet LONGER than your tabular array top. Place the optic of the yarn to a greater extent than or less the optic screw. 

Pull taut too air current the yarn to a greater extent than or less the screw, filling inward the grooves. Wind it upward too air current it down. Tie the terminate to the base of operations of the screw. Wind the other terminate of the yarn to a greater extent than or less the contrary screw.

Covering the screws amongst yarn makes this easier for lilliputian hands to plough the bicycle :-).

Repeat amongst the balance of the screws.

Use colored chalk to write prizes on the wheel. I used chalk / chalk pigment instead of pigment / markers too hence I could modify the prizes if nosotros started running depression on candy!

Put the bicycle inward the grass. Cut a  long triangle out of the cereal box. Push a stick into the soil side past times side to the wheel. Tape the triangle to the stick amongst clear packing tape. Make certain the triangle tin ship away hitting the screws every bit the bicycle turns!

I tried to role a wire sign post service for this business office of the projection but the sign post service wouldn't sink far plenty into the ground. This cherry-red stick is genuinely a weed grabber. I but twisted it into the soil too it stayed there!

Spin!

** I ended upward using a Christmas Tree base of operations amongst a woods stick every bit the marker!