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Maze Potato Plant Experiment Activity for Kids

June 17, 2021
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by Beth Gorden

Your kids love mazes, but they’ve never seen something as incredibly COOL as this  maze potato! This potato maze will blow kids away as they watch potatoes grow, learn about plants and their need to head towards the light. This plant activity for kids is perfect for spring or summer learning. All you need to try stem activities are a few items you probabaly have around the house to try this plant experiments for kids from preschool, kindergarten, pre-k, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders too!

Your kids love mazes, but they've never seen something as incredibly COOL as this  maze potato! This potato maze will blow kids away as they watch potatoes grow, learn about plants and their need to head towards the light. This plant activity for kids is perfect for spring or summer learning. All you need to try stem activities are a few items you probabaly have around the house to try this plant experiments for kids from preschool, kindergarten, pre-k, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders too!

Maze Potato

Most children know that plants require planting materials, seed, water, and sunlight. They observe a bean or pea sprout as a typical plant activity for kindergarten. It may surprise students to learn the lengths a plant will go to as they head towards the light. This EPIC potato maze is truly a cool plant activity for kids. As preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1, grade 2, and grade 3 students try this plant experiment for kids they will create a maze from recycled materials for their potato to navigate. This is a fun Earth Day Science project, goes great with watching the Disney movie Wall-e, or use it in your plant science lesson at home, in the classroom, or a local coop. This also makes a really fun summer stem activity for stem camp!

Potato Maze So what do you need to try this potato activity for kids? Just a couple simple materials you probably have laying around your house! box scissors masking tape sprouting potato moist soil small flower pot or container

Potato Maze

So what do you need to try this potato activity for kids? Just a couple simple materials you probably have laying around your house!

  • box
  • scissors
  • masking tape
  • sprouting potato
  • moist soil
  • small flower pot or container

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Basically you get to make a maze for the vegetable to navigate. So open up the side of a large box and start adding obstacles. You can make shelves with 3-4″ holes to get to the next level. you can make different gaps a la Mario games, or anything else you can think of. This is why this is such a great STEM (science, teachnology, engineering, and math) activity.

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We used recycled Amazon boxes for the main frame and cut out flaps from other boxes. Then we taped on the ledges we made. Finally, we added some purple duct tape for both style and function.

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Just make sure there is a path the plant can take to get from the pot at the bottom to the out of the box towards the sunlight. DOn’t forget to make a door or put the lid back!

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Put the potato in some moist soil in a small pot. Cover with more soil.  Set the potato in the bottom level of your maze.

HINT: If you use a potato that already has “eyes” or small growths it will go quicker =) Just check the bottom of your potato bag, I bet you already have one!

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Set the potato where light will shine through the top and leave it a few days.

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Go ahead and take a peak if you want, just dont’ forget to close the “door”. Give it a little water if the soil is dry. You want the soil moist, but not wet or the potato will rot. So water every couple of days or so with just a light sprinkling.

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Once the potato gets some leaves it will start to go more quickly. Keep the maze closed with the end of the maze in the sun.

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See how the potato is starting to move towards the light source.

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The amazing potato will keep working dilligently to get up to the sunlight that it needs to grow.

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The experiment can vary from a week or longer depending on the complexity of your maze, if it had eyes yet, the temperature, quality of soil, and regular waterings. But don’t worry, it will keep growing, be patient!

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You can see our potato has navigated several turns and twists. The upper leaves look green as they are getting sunlight whereas the lower ones that are in the dark now (as the rest of the plant is covering the little sunlight it was getting) are starting to look limp and pale.

Your kids love mazes, but they've never seen something as incredibly COOL as this  maze potato! This potato maze will blow kids away as they watch potatoes grow, learn about plants and their need to head towards the light. This plant activity for kids is perfect for spring or summer learning. All you need to try stem activities are a few items you probabaly have around the house to try this plant experiments for kids from preschool, kindergarten, pre-k, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders too!

Potato Science Experiment

This potato science experiment demonstrates the principle of tropism which explains how plants react to outside stimulus. This can cause plants to send deeper roots to find water, grow at a slant to get to sunlight, change colors based on the soil acidity (think hydrangeas), or stretch to find light

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Your kids love mazes, but they've never seen something as incredibly COOL as this  maze potato! This potato maze will blow kids away as they watch potatoes grow, learn about plants and their need to head towards the light. This plant activity for kids is perfect for spring or summer learning. All you need to try stem activities are a few items you probabaly have around the house to try this plant experiments for kids from preschool, kindergarten, pre-k, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders too!water pollution for kids science experiment with celery    Are you learning about plants with your kids? Most children learn about plant life cycles and sprout a seed, but this photosynthesis experiment allows students to learn about photosynthesis for kids is a very simple, easy plant experiment. This photosynthesis activity is fun for all ages from preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and up.

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Summer Activities for Kids

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Beth Gorden

Beth Gorden is the creative multi-tasking creator of 123 Homeschool 4 Me. As a busy homeschooling mother of six, she strives to create hands-on learning activities and worksheets that kids will love to make learning FUN! She has created over 1 million pages of printables to help teach kids ABCs, science, English grammar, history, math, and so much more! Beth is also the creator of 2 additional sites with even more educational activities and FREE printables - www.kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com and www.preschoolplayandlearn.com

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