Marble Menagerie Game

Try this marble menagerie game and round out your animal collection with a little marble magic. If you enjoy easy crafts and marbles, this marble menagerie game is perfect for you!

Illustration of a girl making animals with marbles
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Make all sorts of animals with your marbles.

What You'll Need:

  • Stiff cardboard
  • Ruler
  • Scissors
  • Markers
  • Colored marbles
  • Craft glue
  • Colored paper

Cut a small piece of stiff cardboard about four by six inches long. Decorate it so it looks like an animal habitat or a cuddly pet bed. Now, follow the patterns above to make a marble mate -- or try some creatures of your own!

Make a turtle (a circle of marbles for the shell, one marble each for the turtle's head, feet, and stubby tail), snake (six marbles laid end to end) or a marble cat (a pyramid of marbles with paper ears and tail added.)

Cut out small pieces of paper for eyes, ears, and other body parts to finish your creatures; add the details to the paper with markers. When the glue is dry, put your animal in its habitat!

Presidential Marbles

If you enjoy playing marbles, then you have something in common with several past presidents of the United States. It's said that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both enjoyed the game of marbles and Abraham Lincoln was an expert at a marble game called "old bowler."

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