Marble Run With Paper Towel Tubes

They love to start a new design each morning.

Marble run with paper towel tubes.

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. 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. How to make a marble run. Good for ages 4 and up.

Do you save cardboard tubes from paper towels toilet paper and whatever else comes on a roll. Cardboard tubes paper towel tubes gift wrap tubes toilet paper tubes magnets. 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. I decided to try my hand at making a little tower marble run for the kids to enjoy.

Totally worth it in my estimation. Marbles or ping pong balls. Make a fun and interactive marble run from easy to not so easy. Use the original size tubes and or cut them to various lengths.

All you need are some toilet paper or paper towel rolls and pretty colored tape and you re set. My husband constructed a neat little apparatus out of an empty oatmeal container. Toilet paper tube marble run for this project you will need. Next time you find yourself holding an empty cardboard tube roll.

For this craft you will need. 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. Toilet paper and or paper towel tubes markers crayons stickers yarn fabric etc. 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. 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. I leave a little basket in the kitchen filled with marbles and their magnetic paper towel and toilet paper tubes.

Hot glue or another adhesive. Simple to set up easy to do and full of learning possibilities. For a marble run you need. Packing or duct tape optional large baking sheet refrigerator or other metal surface.

What a great rainy day or anytime kind of activity. Tinkerlab has a nifty marble run idea. 11 toilet paper rolls. I have quite a collection saved just for the purpose of making a cool cardboard tube marble run on our wall.

Magnetic tape cardboard tubes plastic cups fun decorative taper or paint stickers optional marbles. 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.