1. Gather your tubes, some blue painter tape that is safe for your walls, a few objects that will pass through the tubes, and a collection bowl or box. (You can also glue them to a large sheet of paper and then to your wall if you have such a piece of paper.)
2. Have your children look at the supplies you have gathered to help them visualize the activity from the beginning. Ask your children to hypothesize or make a good educated guess about what the objects will do if you put the tubes on the wall and drop the objects down them. Any answer is a good answer....you just want them to think!
3. Let your children decide how to place the tubes. Remember, your child needs to be tall enough to reach the top of the tube or tubes to release the objects. Using the tape, place the rolls vertically on the wall side by side, or stacked one on top of another. place your container on the floor underneath the last tube.
4. Enjoy watching your child put cars, balls, beans or grapes down the tube. Children will enjoy this activity for quite awhile.
5. To secretly add some math and physics to the fun:
- Help your child count the time (or let them use the timer on your phone) it takes different objects coming down the same tube.
- Help your child count the time it takes coming down different length tubes.
- Ask your child why there are differences.
- Help your child change up the arrangement to add diagonal tubes. Older children may make an elaborate looking maze, but younger ones will be happy with one or two slanted rolls. Time the object's descent and then tweak some angles to make it take more or less time. Why does the time change?
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