Supplies Needed:
- Large Piece of Cardboard
- Lots of Toilet Paper Rolls
- Paper Towel Rolls
- Felt Fabric Sheet
- Velcro
- Pom Poms
- Paint (optional)
Set Up:
- Cut your cardboard to the size you want your ball run to be. I choose a piece that was about my son’s height and I left a flap of cardboard along the bottom so it would have a little bit better balance.
- Cover your cardboard with your felt fabric sheet.
- Paint your toilet paper and paper towel rolls.
- Add a small square of the hook side of velcro to each cardboard tube. We found that they worked best when we did once piece at each end, even on the small rolls because they stuck to the felt better.
- Finish by sticking your velcroed pieces to the felt and start sending the pom poms down the shoot.
Additional Ideas:
- If you want curved piece cut one of your rolls on a diagonal in the middle and rotate it around so the long parts of the diagonal are next to each other and short parts are next to each other. I secured it with a two pieces of masking tape, glue would also work great.
- We played with pom poms, bouncy balls and little toys cars are also fun.
- If you have older children it would be fun to set up tasks for your children to figure out, such as start the balls in the top right corner and find a way to get them clear over to the bottom left corner, or some other place.
Thanks for reading!
Have you tried to make a ball run? I would love to see the ball run you’ve created or hear about any of your experiences or thoughts to make it better in the comments section.