How To Make A Kid Friendly Maze

October 30, 2017

Last week, my 1st graders made these Spooky Halloween Mazes as a connection to the book The Roll-Away Pumpkin.

Here's how to make one of your own:

Cover a box with construction paper. I used the box tops that go with the boxes that hold printer paper.
Put some paint in each students box (whatever color they wanted). Then they each got 5 marbles. They put the marbles in the box top and rolled it around. This created a marble art background! This also painted the marbles - which I told the students were supposed to represent the pumpkin in the story.
We spent about an hour making the bumpers.
I gave each student a cauldron to place at the end of the maze. In the story, the pumpkin lands in a cauldron.
They placed their cauldron & bumpers where they thought they were like them. They had their finger pretend to be the marble and practiced running the maze to make sure the maze was how they wanted.
They used stick glue to glue their bumpers down.
I hot glued their cauldron and also created a little ramp for the marbles to use to get into the cauldron.

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