Magnet Marble Building

To create our magnetic marble maze i pulled some of our smaller magnetic tiles out of our collection.

Magnet marble building.

A construction toy for building roller coaster marble runs it lets you build any type of coaster track you want with twists slopes and tight turns of all sorts to fill your wildest amusement park dreams. For this tutorial i used approx. I ve been seeing the cutest marble picture magnets at the stores but i haven t been able to bring myself to pay full price for them. Jack discusses the design and assembly of an intriguing toy for kids.

Just make sure the circles are also the same size or larger than your magnets otherwise the magnet will show through the marble. At their new location there was absolutely no playground equipment. Building a magnetic marble roll. How to create a marble maze with magnetic tiles.

First we laid the magnetic tiles out on our metal pan with enough spacing between them to roll a marble between them. The magnetic marble roll actually uses mini porcupine type balls years ago my son s daycare moved. If you have a bigger pan you can use bigger magnetic tiles. I went with a neodymium magnet because this is real carrara marble each magnet will have a bit of weight to it and you don t want your beautiful magnets falling and crashing down to the floor neodymium is a super strong magnet and will be secure.

Lay the marbles face down so the. 1 1 4 marbles a 1 paper punch and 3 4 magnets. After punching your circles you are ready to start gluing the circles to the marbles. Makeway is a next generation marble run construction system that uses magnets and a variety of marble spinning flinging and rolling components allowing you to build on your fridge whiteboard.