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It’s time to dig into a new box of tricks. We have Lego-ed, Go-noodled, and gamed our hearts out, it’s time for a blast from the past, bring out the marbles.
While my kids love a good old fashioned game of marbles, aggies and all, right now they are experiencing the marbles of their dad’s youth through a new Marble Run kit. Marble Run is like a vertical maze for you to create and run marbles though. I remember this being popular when I was a kid, but I didn’t have much to do with it. For my kids, this is an ideal toy. It combines their love of construction toys with something new. It pulls in their love of mazes, of moving pieces, of watching things in motion. All three of them love to set something up, and then watch the consequences of what they have done, before tinkering with it some more. In our Marbulous Marble Run kit, they find all these things. And thank goodness, because we have a lot of days at home ahead!
Our kit is a pretty basic kit, certainly geared more towards my younger kids, though all are happy with it. With gears, tunnels, tubes, bells, and slides, you set up a labyrinthine course for your marble to run through. The kit comes with a small guide book containing four levels of construction ability; easy, medium, hard, and hardest. My kids range in age from four to ten, and have all been able to attack one of…
