Make an Amazing Maze!

Can you make a maze for Mr Marble? Join us for this hands on activity where the instructions below show you how to make a fun maze game using items you can find at home. All you need to do is follow along with us and make an amazing maze! Please ask a grownup to do this with you. It’s a lot of fun for you and them.

You will need:

• A shoe box, a shallow cardboard box or a sturdy box lid
• 2 marbles
• Some playdough/plasticine or tin foil and sticky tape
• Felt tip pens and/or stickers to decorate

Instructions:

1. Place box or lid on a firm surface.
2. Roll play dough or foil into snakes and balls.
3. Place snakes and balls in box in a random pattern and press down so they stick (or use tape if using foil).
4. Make arches out of playdough and add to the maze you have created (optional).
5. Make a starting and ending port for the marble at either end inside the box/lid.
6. Decorate the outside and inside of the box with felt pens and stickers (optional).
7. Place marble in starting port and tip box gently to guide marble through the maze to the ending port.
8. Try again with a different sized marble. If the maze is too easy, try again using more snakes, balls and arches.
9. All done? Why not do a timed Marble race to see how fast you can move Mr Marble from one end to the other? Invite your family and friends to make their mazes and have a marble maze race with them.
10. Here at aMAZing Stories, we want to see your amazing mazes. Take a picture of your maze, ask your grownup to email your photo to amazingstories@bcu.ac.uk with your first name/initials, age and the city/town/village you live before 28th November. We will display your maze here.