Your kids will love making this fun and easy marble maze.  The only thing more fun than making it is playing with it!

marble maze fun kids craft shown in a cardboard box with straws for maze sides and marble with construction paper
Allow'southward brand a marble maze to play with!

Make A Marble Maze

Today we are giving kids  the hazard to design their very own marble maze. This activeness fosters independence and nurtures imagination.  Gather a few basic supplies and a plan. You'll take your own marble maze in no fourth dimension!

Building a maze can be a good STEM activeness for older kids as they learn easily-on that a skilful plan will always make a better maze.

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Supplies Needed

  • Box (cereal boxes, cracker boxes, shipping boxes…whatever you have on paw)
  • Duct tape
  • Structure Paper
  • Drinking Straws
  • Mucilage
  • Scissors
  • Marble

How To Brand A Marble Maze

how to make a marble maze steps 1-4 for this craft for kids
Steps to make your own marble maze

Step 1

Outset you need to cut abroad the front end console out of your box and then it has four sides and a bottom.

Step 2

Next, record together or create additional cardboard security so that you accept four even sides.  Cover all of the sides in duct tape for decoration.

Step three

Next cut a piece of construction paper to fit the bottom of the box and glue it in place.

Stride four

Now the fun part: create your maze!

Cut straws to dissimilar lengths and glue them to the lesser of the box.  This is a great artistic exercise for kids.  They merely demand to be sure that the marble can fit through the spaces and make it all the way to the other terminate.

Allow your little engineer experiment before the gum dries.

Step five

Let your creating dry and become ready to play…

Now yous become to play! Simply place a marble at i stop or corner of your box and tilt the box to guide the marble through the maze to the other side.

Related: Make a paper plate marble maze with these piece of cake instructions!

Agile Time 20 minutes

Total Time xx minutes

Difficulty Medium

Estimated Cost $0

Materials

  • Box (cereal boxes, cracker boxes, shipping boxes…whatsoever you have on hand)
  • Construction Paper
  • Drinking Straws
  • Marble

Tools

  • Glue
  • Pair of scissors
  • Duct tape

Instructions

  1. Cut abroad and reinforce the box yous are using for this craft so that information technology has a bottom and 4 short sides.
  2. Cover the edges with decorative duct record.
  3. Cover the bottom of the box with a piece of colorful structure paper.
  4. Create your harbinger maze: start by cutting straws into unlike size pieces and laying out the planned maze. One time ready, glue in identify.
  5. Let dry.
  6. Play your maze by tipping the box side to side to work the marble through the maze.

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