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Growing skills for life through making

Mini Maker Mission printable for building, testing and improving a cardboard marble run

FREE MINI MAKER Mission

Build a Marble Run

Build it. Roll it. Learn from what happens.

Your child will build a first path, roll a marble and use what happens as a clue for what to change next.

  • Follow clear steps using cardboard, toilet-roll tubes and other simple materials

  • Know when to help and when to hand the decisions back

  • Help your child test, notice and improve their own idea

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A Guided making journey

Inside your free Mission

Clear guidance for the grown-up. Meaningful choices for the child. Plenty of room to test, change and try again.

1

Prepare and begin

See what you need, prepare the tricky parts and help your child build a workable first version.

2

Build and explore

Follow clear steps while your child chooses the route, places the guides and makes the marble run their own.

3

Test, adapt and share

Use each roll as a clue, change one thing at a time, then reflect on and share what your child discovered.

FOUR MAKER MOVES. One Marble Run.

Four qualities. One growing mindset.

BEGIN

ImageCourage to Try – purple crayon drawing

Courage to Try

EXPLORE

Curiosity and Innovation – lightbulb

Curiosity & Innovation

ADAPT

Resilience – repaired box

Resilience

SHARE

Kindness and Community – hands holding a heart

Kindness & Community

The marble run is the practice ground. The mindset is what children carry with them.

READY TO START THE MISSION?

Get the free Mini Maker Mission.

Build it. Roll it. Learn from what happens.

What grows through making matters.

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