Let your children use their wits to challenge people to complete their labyrinthine book of mazes. Making mazes will keep your child busy, and they'll be able to share the fun with a friend, too. Making mazes is an exercise in patience and creativity—and completing them is a great way to strengthen their problem-solving ability!
What You Need:
- Sheets of plain paper
- Two sheets of colored construction paper
- Ruler
- Pen or pencil
- Stapler
- Crayons or markers (optional)
What You Do:
- On a couple of sheets of scratch paper, urge your child to practise drawing some mazes. It will help them to use a ruler or straight edge to make the maze as neat-looking as possible. If they need some assistance, help them look online at some basic mazes until they get the idea.
- Have your child draw a different maze on each page of paper. Each maze should have a marked starting and ending point, and several "dead ends." Encourage your child to make mazes of differing levels of difficulty, trying to work from "easy" to "difficult," from the beginning to the end of the book.
- After learners are finished drawing the mazes, staple them together to make a book. Use the two sheets of construction paper as the front and back cover.
- Learners can design and colour the front and back cover, and write a title—such as: "My Book of Mazes."
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