Make a 3-d Mouse Toy with a Marble for Wheels

I found this cute idea on the

http://www.thetoymaker.com/Toypages/07Marblemice/07marblemice.html/
web site. There are patterns for many paper toys available for free. Most you can print out a printed pdf file and hand cut. Being a Cricut owner, and thinking these might be a good CAMP project, I decided to create a Cricut svg pattern so we could make these easily and quickly. I even used the "gel pens" to add the details. If you were making these for kids, it would be fun for them to add all the details and decorate the mouse. Then you could set up an "incline" of some kind, and let them have "races".
What the bottom of mouse should look like with the marble


There is one problem. I don't have a Marble(use the large shooter marble which is about the size of a quarter). You will have to size the pattern so it fits. I set size to 8 inches and the circle was smaller than the quarter, 10 too big, perhaps nine is just right, but you'll have to cut one, insert the marble and see. These work like the original mouse we had on our computers that had a track ball in them. Remember those? and how you had to take them apart and clean off the goop that built up on them? Maybe not, as you are a youngster, and it was before your time!
Here is the top layer folded.



How the bottom looks without the marble



Download the file here:

File to CUT:
http://www.mediafire.com/?1y3qzydd4kz


Marker layer(worked better with gel pens from dollar tree, make them fit in your Cricut blade holder..do this layer first. Then enter load paper(without unoading paper), remove marker, put in blade again. Cut other layer)

http://www.mediafire.com/?ftnzmm5i5wz

Suggestion to make pen fit: Use tape, use rubber band, use art gum eraser, use pencil grips. Once you get it in, and figure out correct height, then mark it, so you can put it in next time at right spot.