Fidgeting didn’t start with the spinner craze. If you’ve ever clicked a ballpoint pen again and again, you’ve used a fidget item. As part of our work, we’ve asked people what items they like to fidget ...

Fidget toys are not new. These handheld objects come in all shapes and sizes, from stress balls to putty and bracelets. For years, fidgets have been used as tools by teachers, therapists and parents ...

Melissa Ferry is a big believer in the benefits of allowing students to use fidget toys in the classroom. She points to research indicating that playing with fidget toys - little gadgets, cubes, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stores can’t keep them in stock. Parents are scrambling to find them. And some schools have banned them. The mania for fidget spinners — the 3-inch twirling gadgets taking over ...

It's sort of like spinning a top, or twirling a pen, but far more addictive. Fidget spinners, small toys that spin between your fingers, are the latest craze for students, and they're so popular that ...

From the Cabbage Patch Kids to Tickle Me Elmo to hoverboards, there’s always a must-have toy. And now there's a new one in town. It’s called the fidget spinner. It’s a simple piece of plastic with ...

REEDSPORT — Children love their toys and in fact so much so across the nation that they'll bring them to school. When you were a child, maybe it was a Barbie doll in the 1960s, a Rubik's Cube in the ...

It’s the toy taking the classroom by storm. Kids love ‘Fidget Spinners’ but some school districts have banned the toys- saying they’re disrupting the learning environment. Fidget Spinners and Fidget ...

They captured kids’ fancy like milk bottle caps and Pokemon card games once did years ago. Fidget spinners — palm-sized three-pronged twirling gadgets — are the latest rage across Southern California ...

A Washburn University student hopes the fidget toy she designed will not only give people a new outlet to fidget, but also ...

Plastic fidget toys resembling colorful pocket knives are a hit among Korean kids, but parents have expressed concern that they could encourage children to play with actual knives -- or worse. On ...