WhirlyGoRound offers children an exhilarating experience every day for years to come; creating countless memories as precious as the child it delights.
Its timeless design makes it a beautiful addition to any room bringing luxurious fun indoors and into your family legacy.
This heirloom-quality, limited edition toy celebrates parents’ desire to give children the very best; crafted with standards of quality, durability, and sustainability far beyond what mass-produced toys can offer.
Only 500 WhirlyGoRounds have been crafted. This is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to own a piece your child will treasure for a lifetime and perhaps another generation.
In honor of WHAM-O founders Spud Melin and Rich Knerr; Chuck Knerr brings their PhysActive Fun to a new generation with WhirlyGoRound; the fulfillment of a phenomenal idea Spud and Rich developed over 60 years ago.
From a family that created these iconic American toys.
Before the iconic Slip 'N Slide® took the world by storm, Rich Knerr brought home a prototype for what we now call WhirlyGoRound. Chuck Knerr, its 5-year old test pilot, discovered it was an E-ticket to endless excitement. Chuck recalls, "I'll never forget the exhilaration of spinning like I was in a space capsule. The Space Race was on and our patio was Cape Canaveral!"
Pictured: The Knerr's patio.
But, with the overwhelming success of the Slip 'N Slide® sweeping the nation, Spud and Rich had their hands full. As a result, the WhirlyGoRound project was set aside and forgotten. Watch the video to hear Rich and Chuck as they reminisce about the funnest toy they never finished.
Balance & Coordination
Strengthens Core Muscles
Motor Planning
Brain Development
Spatial Awareness
Calming
Improved Attention & Focus
Bilateral Coordination
Emotional Regulation
Confidence and Self-Esteem
Social Interaction
Sensory Integration
Spinning offers significant benefits for their developing young brains. Spinning provides powerful vestibular stimulation, which plays a crucial role in enhancing the development of young minds. This stimulation contributes to emotional regulation, improved balance, coordination, impulse control—even the ability to concentrate and learn in the classroom.
CLASSROOM REVIEW
Kristin Langley, Early Learning Lead Teacher • Waldorf School, Louisville,
The children have loved the WhirlyGoRounds. I introduced it in our morning circle and let them all have a turn (every single child wanted to try it), and then I pulled it out during free play as an option for the children to self-select. I initially had to help them take turns and monitor the time as some children would have stayed on it indefinitely.
I did have children who would ask to use it consistently and seemed to "know" when they needed a movement break. After we saw how it was helping certain students during those moments either to refocus or calm down, we also used it intentionally before and after clean up time - which seemed to settle the children and improve their attention on the task at hand.
I did not observe any negative effects, the children seemed to self-monitor their experience (after the initial popularity of something new). No one fell off or was sick from spinning so fast! All ages seemed to be drawn to it.
The captivating experience of WhirlyGoRound is rooted in principles of physics. By harnessing the Earth's gravitational pull and utilizing their core muscles to shift their center of mass, children unlock the power of gravitational potential energy; unleashing exhilarating rotation. WhirlyGoRound can be a gateway to spark kids' interest in science.
Fostering development of children's God-given abilities through physically active play.
