Marble Run With Paper Towel Tubes

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.

Marble run with paper towel tubes.

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. Cardboard tubes paper towel rolls tp rolls toilet paper rolls wrapping paper rolls you name it. If it s a tube shaped piece of cardboard. Totally worth it in my estimation.

Simple to set up easy to do and full of learning possibilities. Marble run supply list. Ours isn t perfect but it sure was f. Begin with five plates for a 12 inch tube.

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. Line up your tubes on a magnetic surface. Duct tape packing tape or glue gun. This is a great activity for young ones to master on their own.

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. I did this part while cole was napping. 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. Have you tried this before.

I have quite a collection saved just for the purpose of making a cool cardboard tube marble run on our wall. Trace the end of the tube onto the center of each plate. Building structures with straws and cardboard tube rolls. My husband constructed a neat little apparatus out of an empty oatmeal container.

We have been saving paper towel rolls and other items for quite a while now so that we could make our own marble run. Cardboard tube mailing tube wrapping paper tube or paper towel tube. Use the hot glue gun to attach magnets to the side of the tubes. Paper plates with a high rim.

Cut out the edges on each of the tubes. I decided to try my hand at making a little tower marble run for the kids to enjoy. 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. Free standing cardboard tube marble run.

Cardboard tube roll catapult. For this craft you will need. Next time you find yourself holding an empty cardboard tube roll. 11 toilet paper rolls.

What a great rainy day or anytime kind of activity. Chase channels his creativity and uses basic household items to make a home made marble run. 10 12 paper towel rolls hot glue gun magnets scissors marble.