Marble Run With Paper Towel Tubes

This is a great activity for young ones to master on their own.

Marble run with paper towel tubes.

Cardboard tubes paper towel rolls tp rolls toilet paper rolls wrapping paper rolls you name it. 11 toilet paper rolls. If it s a tube shaped piece of cardboard. I did this part while cole was napping.

Cut out the edges on each of the 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. Use the hot glue gun to attach magnets to the side of the tubes. Line up your tubes on a magnetic surface.

Building structures with straws and cardboard tube rolls. I decided to try my hand at making a little tower marble run for the kids to enjoy. 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. Ours isn t perfect but it sure was f.

What a great rainy day or anytime kind of activity. For this craft you will need. Duct tape packing tape or glue gun. Cardboard tube mailing tube wrapping paper tube or paper towel tube.

Please do not allow your children to use a hot glue gun. 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. 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 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.

Free standing cardboard tube 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. Simple to set up easy to do and full of learning possibilities. 10 12 paper towel rolls hot glue gun magnets scissors marble.

Trace the end of the tube onto the center of each plate. Totally worth it in my estimation. 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. Begin with five plates for a 12 inch tube.

Next time you find yourself holding an empty cardboard tube roll. Cardboard tube roll catapult. My husband constructed a neat little apparatus out of an empty oatmeal container. Paper plates with a high rim.

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