Magna Tiles Ideas: Easy Dominoes Tutorial Video With Magnetic Tiles

Discover some cool ideas for building fun stuff with Magna Tiles. A rare toy that gets much more use than your average twenty-first century toys is a magnetic tiles construction set. We recommend Magna-Tiles as they are the most widely available, durable, popular with kids, and thus, can be combined with other sets for a larger collection.

Magna Tiles: Top STEM Toys For Kids To Drive Creativity And Spatial Engineering

Many new toys get only a few days worth of play from an average kid. Often, these toys are cleverly marketed to children and they ask their parents to get it for them. But then it is quickly thrown aside and forgotten leaving you vexed with the frustrating cycle of toy-buying.

One rare exception is a Magna Tiles Construction Toy Set from Valtech. Hugely popular with kids from as early as the late nineties, these building blocks attach to each other through magnetic strips on each end. The most common Magna Tiles building ideas are various 2D and 3D shapes of popular objects.

An often overlooked Magna Tiles construction idea is to build a track of falling dominoes with the magnetic tiles. Because of the magnetic connections at each block, the tiles fall over each other almost perfectly for a great domino visual effect. Watch this YouTube Short video to see for yourself.

Easy Magna Tiles Ideas: For Driving Engineering, Spatial And Problem-Solving Skills

The nice thing with building this easy Magna Tiles Dominoes Track is that is makes your kid think like an engineer. They have to visualize how each falling magnetic tile till continue the cascade. While building a straight dominoes track with Magna-Tiles is somewhat easy, getting one to curve or turn at right angles is challenging.

Here we show you some easy ways to overcome the curved track and still get your Magna-Tiles to fall like perfect dominoes. Your children will learn scientific patience as they experiment and test each aspect of their model track. Eventually they will get it and then reap the reap their Eureka moment as they discover that their Magna Tiles Dominoes Track works perfectly. What a great way to get kids into problem-solving and mastering their skills as a budding engineer.

Easy Magna Tiles Ideas: Dominoes Building Video

In this tutorial we will show you how to build, design, trouble-shoot and then test your Magna Tiles Dominoes Track the simple way.

How To Fix Stuck Magna Tiles Dominoes

Most Magna Tiles sets have only a few of the larger isosceles triangles. These are your best bets to work over a difficult area or a curve. But if a Magna Tiles Domino train gets stuck in a certain section, you can add up larger pieces to make sure the next one also gets knocked over.

Ideas And Tutorial For Building A Curved Magna Tiles Dominoes Track

It is really easy to get your Magna Tiles Dominoes to go around a curve. After your straight square blocks line up 3 equilateral triangles as shown above. At the start of the curve, use a large isosceles triangle to tip over a smaller right-angled triangle placed in the middle of the three isosceles triangles.

Watch this short video below to see how to build a curved Magna-Tiles track and to get the dominoes to still knock over each other around the bend.

Tips For Testing Your Magna Tiles Dominoes Ideas

Keep in mind that it can be frustrating at times when your child is testing out their Magna Tiles dominoes. Once they fall over, the magnetic tiles are a bit difficult to separate from each other due to the magnetic pull. Since they are doing this on a dominoes track, their hands could easily tip over a tile by accident. This could trigger all the remaining magnetic tiles to fall over. And they have to build the whole set from scratch.

This is especially true when you are fixing or trouble-shooting an area that is stuck and not working. When it finally works, the full series can topple over. The trick is to place your hand between a tile just after the problem area so that just the dominoes being tested fall. And preserving the rest of the structure.

The last thing you want happen is to add frustration to an educational toy experience for your kids. This will avoid plenty of headache and is an easy fix.

Bonus Video On Magna Tiles Ideas For Falling Dominoes

One more Magna Tiles Dominoes set up and video.

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Magna Tiles Stardust Set, The Original Magnetic Building Tiles

Storing Your Kid’s Magna-Tiles: Neat Ideas To Avoid Clutter

If you are tired of all the clutter that a toy like Magna-Tiles can bring, here is a nice storage solution. It comes with a play mat and a nifty storage bin for collecting all the magnetic tiles when the fun and games are over. The play mat has interactive designs that help the younger kids with building their Magna-Tiles designs.

Magna-Tiles Storage Bin & Interactive Play-Mat, Collapsible Storage Bin with Handles

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You can read our full list of the highest-rated toys for 2021 here and get them before they sell out in the stores.

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There are many interesting toys to choose from this holiday season. The best ones are interactive toys like Moji the Loveable Labradoodle and the Ultimate Learning Bot. Among boys, super hero action figures are, as always, popular (Marvel Studios Super Hero building toys, Transformers Bumblebee Dinobots).

Other than Magna-Tiles which always make a great holiday gift for kids, the 2021 Holiday Barbie doll, Disney’s Princess Ultimate Celebration Castle doll house and Gravity Bugs from Thames and Kosmos are also a good choices for kids.

Magna-Tiles 100-Piece Clear Colors Set, The Original Magnetic Building Tiles For Creative Open-Ended Play, Educational Toys For Children Ages 3 Years +

By Valtech; Release Date: July 2018

Magna-Tiles are a great way to get your kids to use their creative skills to make designs with this construction toy. There is something addictive with seeing the magnetic blocks and shapes connect together. Kids also like to smash up their creations much like they do at the beach with sandcastles.

An easy way to willingly get kids off their screens. Magnetic tiles provide hours of fun for kids and the Magna-Tiles brand is our top pick in this space.

Product Information: Magna-Tiles 100-Piece Clear Colors Set, The Original Magnetic Building Tiles For Creative Open-Ended Play, Educational Toys For Children

Name	Magna-Tiles® Clear Colors 100-Piece Set Includes: 50 Small Squares 4 Large Squares 20 Equilateral Triangles 11 Right Triangles 15 Isosceles Triangles
ASIN	B000CBSNRY
Manufacturer	Valtech
Release Date	July 17, 2018
Manufacturer Recommended Age	3 years and up
Educational Focus	Large Motor Skills, Engineering, Math
Manufacturer’s Description	Magna-Tiles provides innovative magnetic building sets designed to encourage off-screen imaginative free play and fuse science, math and creativity. Take your child’s creativity to the next level with the Magna-Tiles® Clear Colors 100-Piece Set! Designed for ages three and up, these magnetic toys for kids spark hours of imaginative, unstructured play, allowing them to bring their dreams to life. Whether children work solo or with family members and friends to build a massive structure or recreate a favorite movie scene, they are guaranteed to have fun while learning fundamental skills and enjoying the following benefits: STEM-approved: Offering endless possibilities for young, imaginative thinkers, our STEM-approved magnetic blocks inspire hours of instruction-free playtime while helping children develop math, science, spatial, and tactile skills. They’re also found in educational settings everywhere, fostering teamwork and problem-solving skills as well.

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