Marble Run With Paper Towel Tubes

Toilet paper tube marble run for this project you will need.

Marble run with paper towel tubes.

This is a great activity for young ones to master on their own. Do you save cardboard tubes from paper towels toilet paper and whatever else comes on a roll. I leave a little basket in the kitchen filled with marbles and their magnetic paper towel and toilet paper tubes. How to make a marble run.

Hot glue or another adhesive. Simple to set up easy to do and full of learning possibilities. They love to start a new design each 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.

Anything you have at home to put some pizazz on your tubes tape marble or other small ball 1. Good for ages 4 and up. For a marble run you need. Marbles or ping pong balls.

Collect several toilet paper and or paper towel tubes we know you ve. I decided to try my hand at making a little tower marble run for the kids to enjoy. I have quite a collection saved just for the purpose of making a cool cardboard tube marble run on our wall. Toilet paper and or paper towel tubes markers crayons stickers yarn fabric etc.

Here s what we did to make our magnetic marble run. Tinkerlab has a nifty marble run idea. Next time you find yourself holding an empty cardboard tube roll. 11 toilet paper rolls.

Creative connections for kids makes a colorful version using vibrant duct tape to decorate the paper tubes. Magnetic tape cardboard tubes plastic cups fun decorative taper or paint stickers optional marbles. Use the original size tubes and or cut them to various lengths. 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.

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. Packing or duct tape optional large baking sheet refrigerator or other metal surface. 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. We have been saving paper towel rolls and other items for quite a while now so that we could make our own marble run.

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. What a great rainy day or anytime kind of activity. My husband constructed a neat little apparatus out of an empty oatmeal container. Totally worth it in my estimation.

Cardboard tubes paper towel tubes gift wrap tubes toilet paper tubes magnets. Make a fun and interactive marble run from easy to not so easy.