Marble Run With Paper Towel Tubes

Cardboard tubes paper towel tubes gift wrap tubes toilet paper tubes magnets.

Marble run with paper towel tubes.

Tinkerlab has a nifty marble run idea. They love to start a new design each morning. Packing or duct tape optional large baking sheet refrigerator or other metal surface. Here s what we did to make our magnetic marble run.

Anything you have at home to put some pizazz on your tubes tape marble or other small ball 1. Decorate your marble run rolls optional for this diy marble run we started by wrapping the paper towel and toilet paper rolls with colored masking tape. Marbles or ping pong balls. I leave a little basket in the kitchen filled with marbles and their magnetic paper towel and toilet paper tubes.

For this craft you will need. For a marble run you need. I have seen a few things floating around on pinterest with kids using the long paper towel rolls as tubes which are either attached to a wall or fridge to make a kind of marble run. Simple to set up easy to do and full of learning possibilities.

11 toilet paper rolls. My husband constructed a neat little apparatus out of an empty oatmeal container. Use the original size tubes and or cut them to various lengths. What a great rainy day or anytime kind of activity.

We have been saving paper towel rolls and other items for quite a while now so that we could make our own marble run. Next time you find yourself holding an empty cardboard tube roll. Let them create their own marble courses by attaching the paper towel tubes you can add colored tape for more lively colors with brads and watch. Do you save cardboard tubes from paper towels toilet paper and whatever else comes on a roll.

Toilet paper tube marble run for this project you will need. I decided to try my hand at making a little tower marble run for the kids to enjoy. Make a fun and interactive marble run from easy to not so easy. Good for ages 4 and up.

All you need are some toilet paper or paper towel rolls and pretty colored tape and you re set. Collect several toilet paper and or paper towel tubes we know you ve. When you drop the marble into the paper towel roll at the top it rolls out the hole at the bottom of the oatmeal container. Toilet paper and or paper towel tubes markers crayons stickers yarn fabric etc.

Totally worth it in my estimation. This step is purely decorative but it added some pizazz to the design and kept my daughter busy for a good part of a morning. A pegboard some paper towel tubes some paper brads and some marbles that s all you need to get making your own diy marble run. Creative connections for kids makes a colorful version using vibrant duct tape to decorate the paper tubes.

This is a great activity for young ones to master on their own. Magnetic tape cardboard tubes plastic cups fun decorative taper or paint stickers optional marbles.