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Shop a curated range of Wooden Marble Runs with My Happy Helpers
Wooden marble runs come in a range of kits and designs like the 49-piece Viga set with its steps, funnels and lovable guardian bears or the more architectural Kubi Dubi in plain wood, where you can build your creations to impressive new heights. The kits are highly portable and can be set up on any flat surface with sufficient room. Our marble run kits are easy to assemble, disassemble and store. as well as educational, great fun, safe and of excellent quality.
A STEM toy for collaborative play
Children discover how gravity, momentum and other natural forces work by watching marbles rolling and falling through structures they have created. They can build, take apart and rebuild marble runs themselves, then test them experimentally. Marble run toys subtly teach your toddlers perseverance, trial and error, cooperation, and creativity. Most important of all, they’re fun. Parents find these toys’ heritage connects them with their own childhoods, reinforcing the pleasure of playing together. Constructed from pedigree materials like wood, glass and metal, these toys engage sight, sound, and touch.
The History of Marble Run toys
Marble run toys are among the oldest continuously popular children’s construction toys. Originally, mass-produced glass marbles, with their classic swirly interiors, were invented in the 1890s in Akron, Ohio by glassblower James Harvey Leighton. However, games involving clay marbles have been depicted in ancient literature, including the works of Ovid. Rational Toys, which teach children about physics and engineering, date back to the late eighteenth century, as first described in Maria and R. L. Edgeworth book Practical Education (1798). This pedigree is evidence that marble run toys are a tried and tested mind-expanding and delightful toy for young children.
Why buy Wooden Marble Runs for kids?
Do you remember having marbles when you were a child? Now your kids can have marbles, plus a fun marble run to play with too! Our range of marble run toys are attractive, clever and entertaining wooden playthings that kids will love. Suitable for ages three and up, these classic toys engage logical and spatial skills through building, experimentation, and repetition. If your kids love building complex marble runs, you can buy more kits and make them massive. Give them the freedom to experiment and build and create.
Are Wooden Marble Runs expensive?
The time and effort your kids will use to build marble runs, create different ones each time, is so worth the price of a kit. A simple, colourful spiral marble run can cost a bit over $30, or a more complex 100 piece kit can cost the same. Some of our hand made wooden marble runs are worth more, but they last longer, can be combined with multiple kits to give you a marble-based engineering masterpiece.
What are the different types of Wooden Marble Runs?
Our 100 piece marble run toy is tall and colourful; or you can try the Cliffhanger, with a cool little wooden spiral piece for the marbles to go around and around in; we have 3 awesome wooden marble runs you can try out- a simple to build wooden block run, the Viga Toys marble run, and our large wooden marble run. These are educational and fun, bring colour and movement into your kid’s playtime lives, and are such fun to build and build again, different marble runs every time.
What are other popular toys similar to Wooden Marble Runs?
These toys all offer opportunities for hands-on, imaginative play and help children understand the concepts of gravity, momentum and other natural forces. My Happy Helpers offers similar popular toys for education like: