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June 13, 2017 By Brandy 5 Comments

Home » Craft Tutorials » Kids Crafts

Rain Gutter Race Track

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Tracking PixelMake a $5 rain gutter race track! Snaps together for easy storage and comes together in under 10 minutes and it a fun summer activity for kids. 

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rain gutter race track and road masking tape

Dads are awesome. They come up with the best activities and seem to know how to keep them nice and simple. I wanted to make the kids a racetrack, but was a little stumped on how exactly to do it. Derrick came home with a $4 rain gutter and some road tape that he found in the toy aisle.

Boom – our rain gutter race track was born!

rain gutters cut in half and used as race tracks

I found four of these little die cast cars and the kids had a great time seeing which one was the fastest. They raced, and raced, and raced, and in the end, Mickey’s car was the fastest, closely followed by Donald.

little girl holding pink Minnie mouse car

Rain Gutter Race Track Supplies

small Disney character cars and road masking tape

You’ll need some racers. I found these darling die cast cars in the toy aisle at the store. So cute!

road masking tape

You’ll also need a roll of this awesome peel and stick tape. We only used a tiny bit of the roll and will save the rest for making roadways on our kitchen floor sometime! You could also use a permanent market to draw on some road lines or designs.

white plastic rain gutter

Last, but not least, you’ll need a 10′ plastic rain gutter. Derrick found this at the hardware store and asked them to cut it into 2 (5′) sections.

How To Make a Rain Gutter Race Track

rain gutter with road masking tape inside

Run a strip of tape down the center of each one and that’s pretty much it!

2 rain butter race tracks

The awesome thing is that they the rain gutters take up very little space. You can stack one on top of the other and they snap together for storage.

Now let’s race!

kids racing cars on rain gutter race tracks

Let the kids experiment racing from different heights and angles!

toy cars in grass

When the race is over the gutters stack easily for storage.

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  1. Myeshia U. says

    June 15, 2017 at 11:59 am

    My kids are loving this show! They are going to be so surprised when I make this. Thank you!

    Reply
  2. Kallie says

    May 3, 2022 at 9:45 pm

    I have tried, but cannot find any gutter pieces that aren’t 10 feet long. Do you know where you purchased yours?
    Thanks!

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  3. Kallie says

    May 3, 2022 at 9:46 pm

    Nevermind I found that you had it cut

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  4. Anna Lundy says

    October 6, 2022 at 9:31 pm

    At what store did you find the racers? Love this!

    Reply
    • Brandy says

      October 7, 2022 at 6:50 am

      I found these 5 or 6 years ago at Target. 🙂

      Reply

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