gustavo salami's List: kids

This is a tabletop pinball machine made from all scrap wood and bits and pieces of things I've held onto just waiting for a project like this.
 
 The ball is from an old computer mouse, with the rubber coating removed (you could use a marble as well). A crafty person should never throw perfectly good stuff in the trash. Just hang onto it, and eventually you'll find a new use for it down the road!
 
 With some parental help, this can be a kid-friendly project. Building a solid table with a functioning paddle assembly requires some basic woodworking skills, and may be fairly difficult without proper guidance and appropriate tools. But once the paddle assemblies are in place, just about anyone can build ramps and jumps or anything else they can imagine for the upper part of the table. To me that's where the real fun lies--creating various obstacles and then seeing a ball bounce around all over and through them, somewhat under your power.
 
 This is a great project for parents and kids to take on together!
 
 Please check out the video at the end of the instructable to see it in action.