Marble Roller Coaster With Paper Plates

Make sure your marble starts at the top of a hill.

Marble roller coaster with paper plates.

Saved by kara hunkele. Before you start building plan out a design for your roller coaster. Marble run using paper plates. Paper plates some blocks and a little tape are all you need to create imaginative marble roller coasters of infinite designs.

In addition to the paper plates students may also use cardboard tubes or index cards. Figure out how many supports and pieces of track you will need. Marble or small rubber ball. 2012 family fun magazine i knew we had to try it.

Construct a marble roller coaster. This challenge is way more challenging than it looks. I thought the little kids would need that visual. What a genius idea.

Paper plate stem roller coaster. You can find written instructions for the project on the science buddies website. They used rims cut from paper plates to make the track. Then i did show them how to cut off the edges of the paper plates.

When the kids finally get theirs working there is so much pride involved. People also love these ideas. Then create a track design by using paper towel rolls as supports. For example your child might cut out the center and use the edges to make various loops and tracks.

See more ideas about roller coaster paper roller coaster roller. Use paper plates and a mailing tube to make a spiral marble run. Make a cute snail. Mar 19 2015 explore olivia mac s board paper roller coaster on pinterest.

The magazine says to cut the rims off some paper plates. Use a marble to test out the roller coaster. How much fun is this. When i saw the marble coaster idea in the sept.

Draw your design on paper. I found one that was a video of a student testing a paper plate coaster and we watched it so the kids would understand what we were building. We watched a 30 second youtube video before making these. Build marble roller coasters from paper in this fun activity.

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