Kodo kids Chalk Spinner.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: COLORADO COOL STUFF

In 2008, Chris Hume was designing indoor and outdoor play-spaces and raising a young son and came up with a creative diversion that also improved hand-to-eye coordination: the Chalk Spinner. "I came up with it out of a need: a need to distract kids," Hume says. "It's basically just a big rotating chalkboard." Hume soon moved on from play-spaces to making and marketing the Chalk Spinner full-time to pre-schools, then expanded the line last year to include like-minded kids; products like the sandbox-friendly...