Marble Run With Paper Towel Tubes

Do you save cardboard tubes from paper towels toilet paper and whatever else comes on a roll.

Marble run with paper towel tubes.

We have been saving paper towel rolls and other items for quite a while now so that we could make our own marble run. Good for ages 4 and up. Make a fun and interactive marble run from easy to not so easy. I leave a little basket in the kitchen filled with marbles and their magnetic paper towel and toilet paper tubes.

Toilet paper and or paper towel tubes markers crayons stickers yarn fabric etc. Hot glue or another adhesive. This is a great activity for young ones to master on their own. 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.

Totally worth it in my estimation. 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. Magnetic tape cardboard tubes plastic cups fun decorative taper or paint stickers optional marbles.

Anything you have at home to put some pizazz on your tubes tape marble or other small ball 1. They love to start a new design each morning. Use the original size tubes and or cut them to various lengths. My husband constructed a neat little apparatus out of an empty oatmeal container.

Collect several toilet paper and or paper towel tubes we know you ve. For a marble run you need. All you need are some toilet paper or paper towel rolls and pretty colored tape and you re set. What a great rainy day or anytime kind of activity.

Here s what we did to make our magnetic marble run. How to make a marble run. 11 toilet paper rolls. Marbles or ping pong balls.

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. 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. Creative connections for kids makes a colorful version using vibrant duct tape to decorate the paper tubes. Packing or duct tape optional large baking sheet refrigerator or other metal surface.

For this craft you will need. Tinkerlab has a nifty marble run idea. Toilet paper tube marble run for this project you will need. 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. I have quite a collection saved just for the purpose of making a cool cardboard tube marble run on our wall.