Kids will have fun with these DIY maze activities that will use practical skills, problem solving, fine motor skills, large muscle motor activity, and an epic STEM activity for kids from preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd grade students. Pick your favorite maze activity or try several of our varied projects that use common items you will find in your home!
Maze activity
Here are 12 really fun maze activities for kids to make from things you have laying around your house from masking tape, duplos, straws, painters tape, marbles, ping pong balls, cardboard boxes, and more. Each of these different maze activity ideas will delight and engage preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, and grade 4 students. They will use STEM skills to make and solve these fun homemade mazes.
Maze Activities
What is STEM? STEM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math education.
By combining these important topics kids are able to better utilize their problem solving and critical thinking skills to prepare for the future.
Maze ideas
Maze ideasThis Duplo maze is super easy to make and loads of fun!
Add to the STEM activity by having older children (3rd grade +)Â help you actually create the maze. We used a Duple building plate and Duplos to create paths that were 3 wide for a ping pong ball to navigate. Hint: Make sure to overlap Duplos to create a sturdy maze.
Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade kids and up will enjoy moving the ball from the enter to the exit successfully.
The best part, this maze can be changed and used over and over for hours of creative, inexpensive fun!
Maze for kids
Use a cardboard box with the top cut off (a flower box works really well) to make a really fun straw, DIY Marble Maze for Kids.
We lined our box with construction paper to make it prettier. Then use a glue gun to glue down cut pieces of straw to make a fun maze path. We wrote the word start at one spot and cut a hole for the end/exit.
This activity is great fun for Kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and 4th grade kids.
Maze activity for preschoolers
My kids love the Hexbug Nano. They are so much fun to watch roam around. The kids think they are hilarious!
The habitats can get pretty expensive so instead we got a 5 pack on sale and made our own DIY Hexbug Nano Maze.
Just line a flat bottomed cardboard box with construction paper. Not cut, bend, and hot glue gun cardboard flaps to make a simple maze for your bug. I let the kids use pencil to draw the maze lines on the construction paper and then I did the gluing part.
Kids from Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and 4th grade will find it great fun to watch the bug wander around.
Kids Maze
This DIY Car Masking Tape Car Maze was super simple to make and a hugely popular activity with the kids.
Use masking tape to outline connecting roads on the floor. Again, make sure there is a start line and finish with lots of turns, dead ends, and silly things like round abouts in the middle.
Once again, having older children (3rd grade +) help build the maze adds to the STEM activity. This maze can be added to and adapted as much as you like. Clean up is a breeze!
Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade kids and up will enjoy moving the ball from the enter to the exit successfully.
This activity can be widely adapted to practice alphabet letters, sights words, colors, shapes, Bible verses and more!
Maze activity for kindergarten
You can make this simple and FUN crepe paper maze in just a couple minutes.
Toddler, Preschool, and Kindergarten children especially will love this simple maze!
Printable mazes for kids
- Christmas printable mazes for kids
- Telling time printable mazes for kids
- alphabet printable mazes for kids
- Easter printable mazes for kids
- Skip counting printable mazes for kids
- Flower sight word printable mazes for kids
More FUN Maze Activities for Kids
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Science for Kids
Looking for lots more fun, science experiments for kids? You’ve GOT to try some of these outrageously fun science experiments for kids! We have so many fun, creative and easy science experiments for elementary age children:
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- How to Make a Lava Lamp – super easy and SO cool!
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- Amazing, Heat Sensitive, Color Changing Slime
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- EASY, Colorful Oil and Water Science Experiment
- Kids will be amazed as you change colors of white flowers with this Dying Flowers Science Experiment
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- Human Body Project
- Check out this super cool look INSIDE a Volcano Project
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- Find LOTS more Easy Science Experiments for kids of all ages!
