Marble Rolling

**John** · 18-06-2009, 10:41 PM

A fun activity is marble roling using about 5 marbles or more placeing a A4 peice of paper in a try or bowl. Dip the marbles in differnet colour paints and roll the marbles in the tray. My younger children and some of the older children love doing these making differnet patterns.

John.

**charleyfarley** · 19-06-2009, 05:49 AM

This is something we are going to try, think it's a great idea

Carol xx

**angeldelight** · 19-06-2009, 06:13 AM

That is great John

Thanks for sharing

Angel xx

**sonia ann** · 19-06-2009, 06:17 AM

try using golf balls for even younger children.....no worries about swallowing marbles then..............( reminder to self---- make sure they are not hubby's competition balls)

**ORKSIE** · 19-06-2009, 08:29 AM

I have done this with golf balls.
Thanks John, thats something we can do next week.

**Allie** · 19-06-2009, 10:32 AM

Do it with footballs and a builders tray for a fun outside activity, use lining paper as a cheap surface to paint

Allie

**Mouse** · 19-06-2009, 10:35 AM

Try it with things that aren't completely round as well. We have some egg shaped bouncy ball things that work well and the kids are interested to see how they roll.

**eimpi** · 19-06-2009, 04:22 PM

oh thank you so much for the pictures john , even if I had heard about marbles painting, i did not know what it looked like : never dare trying

that looks great

hurray

**miffy** · 19-06-2009, 04:23 PM

Mine love this but I've never thought to use golf balls or footballs so thanks for those ideas

Miffy xx

**manjay** · 19-06-2009, 04:31 PM

Another top tip is to use cereal boxes. This tends to stop the balls jumping out if the little ones get over enthusiastic

**miffy** · 19-06-2009, 04:32 PM

Oooo good idea Manjay!

Hadn't thought of that either!

Miffy xx

**Carol** · 19-06-2009, 05:28 PM

Thanks for sharing xxx

Carol xx

**sonia ann** · 19-06-2009, 06:10 PM

Originally Posted by manjay

Another top tip is to use cereal boxes. This tends to stop the balls jumping out if the little ones get over enthusiastic

lovely photo.....hadn't thought of using boxes...lovely idea

**Tups** · 22-06-2009, 09:43 PM

Thanks john tups

**breezy** · 23-06-2009, 07:56 AM

we did this in the autumn using conkers, it's great gonna try marbles next time, hadnt thought of that

**eimpi** · 24-06-2009, 07:05 PM

hé hé manjay , excellent idea thank you

**sophiestars** · 24-06-2009, 08:22 PM

Good idea manjay I did this activity recently with cat litter trays but the marble kept jumping out of my 2 year old's one!
I had the monthly theme of animals and I cut out the shapes of zebras on white paper and used black paint for the marbles to roll around and make the stripes. Good fun!

**Peppa** · 24-06-2009, 08:30 PM

Originally Posted by manjay

Another top tip is to use cereal boxes. This tends to stop the balls jumping out if the little ones get over enthusiastic

ohhh now i know what i'm gonna use my cereal boxes for!!!!!! Got so many! Thank you!

**angiemog** · 19-07-2009, 06:48 PM

Fab idea...thanks for this x

**KAZBAZ55** · 24-10-2009, 02:17 PM

Hi
That looks great fun.
Will definately be doing that, it looks good for any age child which is nice as you don't need to worry trying to do different things.
Thanks for the idea,
Karen x

Originally Posted by John

A fun activity is marble roling using about 5 marbles or more placeing a A4 peice of paper in a try or bowl. Dip the marbles in differnet colour paints and roll the marbles in the tray. My younger children and some of the older children love doing these making differnet patterns.

John.