Plastic bottle + steel spheres + magnet = Selfmade toy

This youtube channel is full with excellent ideas how to make your kids busy with interesting ways.
Its nothing new to put the rise or some other grains into the plastic bottle to use it as toy for toddlers.
Using similar principle its possible to create toy for a bit older kids.

In this exact example steel buttons, plastic bottle and magnet is used. Pretty, simple right?
Of-course those are not the things that you have lying around at house usually, but its interesting and cheep experiment.
Just have to buy the  metallic, steel balls, and powerful magnet and drink some mineral water to get the bottle.

But be careful, don’t let kids to put the magnet or the metallic balls,spheres into mouth.

Necessary items for the project

Powerful magnet

Sometimes old furniture has some magnets, maybe you can steal those, also headphones and speakers has some magnetic parts. If you have time and energy of tinkering you can find some magnets laying around.
Bigger/stronger magnet will attract bigger elements. Have to be careful when playing with magnets, sometimes, it has happened to me, that i get skin between the magnets, and that is not really fun thing.
Weaker magnets will not attract other elements so strong so we can use smaller spheres than in video shown.

Steel spheres

If you have roller skates, skateboard or long-board, probably you are changing bearings from time to time. Well, from old bearings you can get some metallic spheres if you have the lying around somewhere. They are not so big as in video, but smaller balls don’t need so strong magnet and smaller steel spheres will be easier to find and they will be cheerer.

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