Bottle Cap Pinball Maze
A vertical bottle cap and skewer maze inside a cardboard box. The kid tilts and turns the box to roll a pom-pom from top to bottom.
How to do it
- 1
Trim the front and back of a cardboard box, leaving the sides intact.
- 2
Push wooden skewers across the box from front to back, alternating positions like pinball pegs.
- 3
Hot-glue a bottle cap onto each skewer and one at the very bottom as the goal.
- 4
Place a pom-pom on the top cap and tilt the box to roll it down to the goal.
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