Step 8: Race! Start a marble at the top of each track. You don't want to spend your time running after stray marbles! Raise or lower the top of the noodles to adjust your racetrack. Step 7: Test your marble run to make sure the marbles fall into the cardboard box at the end. Make sure the ends of the pool noodles line up at the top and the bottom. Put the other end of the pool noodles into the circular cutouts in the cardboard box. You can use steps, or a chair, or a pile of books, or whatever works for you. Remember, in order for the marbles to race, the beginning has to be higher than the end. Step 6: Find a place to set up your racetrack. You can build rows of LEGOs or use cardboard boxes or whatever else you have handy. Step 5: (Optional) Make your grandstands. Insert toothpicks into the box above the circle cutouts. Write 'Finish' on a strip of paper and glue toothpicks to each end.

Insert the toothpicks into your pool noodles. Step 4: (Optional) Fold small scraps of paper in half and cut small flags. Step 2: (A grown-up should also supervise this step.) Cut the flaps off a small cardboard box. Using the end of a pool noodle half as a guide, draw two half-circles at the top of the box to make your marble run base. The hole in the middle of the noodle is now the course for the marbles to race down. Step 1: (For grown-ups) Using a serrated knife, cut the pool noodle in half lengthwise. Tempera paint or spray paint (optional).These marble events have been gaining popularity, especially since the Coronavirus has canceled many sporting events.īut you don't need anything that elaborate to begin your own marble competition. The brothers even hold a marble Olympics with long jumps and more. The team with the most marbles completing the course wins. One contest has four “team members” trying not to fall off a flat track. The Bakker brothers also have come up with other marble sports. Grandstands are filled with “fans” holding signs, and announcers provide commentary for the events. The marbles compete as teams, with each team sporting its own color and name. Their videos don’t just show marbles going down a racetrack, though. The two make fancy racecourses for marbles with electronic starts and conveyer belts that take the marbles back to the top for another lap. In 2013, brothers Jelle and Dion Bakker of the Netherlands launched a YouTube channel called Jelle’s Marble Runs.

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