For a marble run you need.
Marble run with paper towel tubes.
I decided to try my hand at making a little tower marble run for the kids to enjoy.
How to make a marble run.
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.
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.
Magnetic tape cardboard tubes plastic cups fun decorative taper or paint stickers optional marbles.
Tinkerlab has a nifty marble run idea.
Anything you have at home to put some pizazz on your tubes tape marble or other small ball 1.
My husband constructed a neat little apparatus out of an empty oatmeal container.
Make a fun and interactive marble run from easy to not so easy.
Marbles or ping pong balls.
Packing or duct tape optional large baking sheet refrigerator or other metal surface.
This is a great activity for young ones to master on their own.
For this craft you will need.
11 toilet paper rolls.
I leave a little basket in the kitchen filled with marbles and their magnetic paper towel and toilet paper tubes.
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.
Collect several toilet paper and or paper towel tubes we know you ve.
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 quite a collection saved just for the purpose of making a cool cardboard tube marble run on our wall.
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.
Toilet paper and or paper towel tubes markers crayons stickers yarn fabric etc.
Cardboard tubes paper towel tubes gift wrap tubes toilet paper tubes magnets.
Here s what we did to make our magnetic marble run.
Hot glue or another adhesive.
Creative connections for kids makes a colorful version using vibrant duct tape to decorate the paper tubes.
Next time you find yourself holding an empty cardboard tube roll.
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.
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.
Simple to set up easy to do and full of learning possibilities.
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.
Do you save cardboard tubes from paper towels toilet paper and whatever else comes on a roll.
Toilet paper tube marble run for this project you will need.
Totally worth it in my estimation.
