Marble Run With Paper Towel Tubes

I decided to try my hand at making a little tower marble run for the kids to enjoy.

Marble run with paper towel tubes. Anything you have at home to put some pizazz on your tubes tape marble or other small ball 1. Magnetic tape cardboard tubes plastic cups fun decorative taper or paint stickers optional marbles. How to make a marble run. I leave a little basket in the kitchen filled with marbles and their magnetic paper towel and toilet paper tubes.

Tinkerlab has a nifty marble run idea. 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. What a great rainy day or anytime kind of activity.

Hot glue or another adhesive. We have been saving paper towel rolls and other items for quite a while now so that we could make our own marble run. Totally worth it in my estimation. Here s what we did to make our magnetic marble run.

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. Cardboard tubes paper towel tubes gift wrap tubes toilet paper tubes magnets. Creative connections for kids makes a colorful version using vibrant duct tape to decorate the paper tubes. For this craft you will need.

Good for ages 4 and up. 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 tube marble run for this project you will need. Marbles or ping pong balls.

I have quite a collection saved just for the purpose of making a cool cardboard tube marble run on our wall. 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. They love to start a new design each morning. Do you save cardboard tubes from paper towels toilet paper and whatever else comes on a roll.

Simple to set up easy to do and full of learning possibilities. All you need are some toilet paper or paper towel rolls and pretty colored tape and you re set. 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. Make a fun and interactive marble run from easy to not so easy.

My husband constructed a neat little apparatus out of an empty oatmeal container. This is a great activity for young ones to master on their own. Use the original size tubes and or cut them to various lengths. Next time you find yourself holding an empty cardboard tube roll.

11 toilet paper rolls. 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.