Marble Run With Paper Towel Tubes

Cardboard tube roll catapult.

Marble run with paper towel tubes. 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. Paper plates with a high rim. My husband constructed a neat little apparatus out of an empty oatmeal container. Have you tried this before.

If you re ambitious enough for a taller run you ll need to use more. 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. Totally worth it in my estimation. This is a great activity for young ones to master on their own.

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. Duct tape packing tape or glue gun. Building structures with straws and cardboard tube rolls. If it s a tube shaped piece of cardboard.

Cardboard tube mailing tube wrapping paper tube or paper towel tube. Line up your tubes on a magnetic surface. Marble run supply list. Begin with five plates for a 12 inch tube.

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. Trace the end of the tube onto the center of each plate. Use the hot glue gun to attach magnets to the side of the tubes. What a great rainy day or anytime kind of activity.

I have quite a collection saved just for the purpose of making a cool cardboard tube marble run on our wall. Cut out the edges on each of the tubes. 10 12 paper towel rolls hot glue gun magnets scissors marble. Cardboard tubes paper towel rolls tp rolls toilet paper rolls wrapping paper rolls you name it.

Ours isn t perfect but it sure was f. Free standing cardboard tube 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. I did this part while cole was napping.

Chase channels his creativity and uses basic household items to make a home made marble run. We have been saving paper towel rolls and other items for quite a while now so that we could make our own marble run. 11 toilet paper rolls. 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.

Next time you find yourself holding an empty cardboard tube roll. 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.