The Toy Insider also accepts consideration from manufacturers, which is clearly marked as sponsored content. Construct exciting glow-in-the-dark marble runs using transparent coloured pieces and glow-in-the-dark marbles. These can provide a real “wow” factor, and as your kids build bigger and bigger sets they’ll be learning engineering concepts in a sneaky way. This will ensure that play and learn go hand in hand, allowing learning toys to develop important skills in children during their play-time. When choosing toys for children it's also important not only what we want them to learn, but also how we want them to learn it.

Working days are defined as Monday-Friday 8am-7pm inclusive, excluding Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays. It includes five bases, 15 action pieces, and 45 track connector pieces, plus 15 marbles to ensure that forgetful users won't lose them too easily. Construct amazing marble runs using the transparent coloured plastic pieces in this slot together kit. Broadly defined, a marble run is any set of interlocking pieces that can form a track for a marble to roll down. When it comes to younger children, though, don’t underestimate their ability to stick objects other than marbles inside the tubes.

For example, if a child wants to play with cars but can't yet reach them without climbing up on furniture or standing on boxes, then consider purchasing an attachment that allows them to play with cars without having to stand up or climb up things.

STURDY TIGHT-FIT PIECES – This construction kit is designed to fit together snuggly so your marble maze won’t fall apart while you play.

SATISFACTION GUARANTEED – The National Geographic STEM series provides kids with high-quality educational toys that are a whole lot of fun! Once your child reaches the age of 4 or 5, you can start introducing them to more complex marble runs. We designed dozens of labyrinths and he really likes experimenting with the different possibilities of the marbles sliding down through the maze.