Brain games and puzzles
Help the Robot Home
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Thinking sheet · Brain games and puzzles
Maze Maker
Design your own maze on squared paper with one true path and lots of dead ends, then swap with a friend.
- Grades
- 2–5
- Time
- about 30 minutes
- Kids practice
- planning, spatial reasoning, problem solving
What kids do
“Make a maze so tricky that your friend needs two tries!”
- My maze (mark Start and Finish)
- Solved by: … Time:
- My sneakiest trick was…
How to run it
- Draw the true path lightly in pencil first.
- Then add walls and dead ends around it.
- Erase the pencil path before swapping.
Talk about it
- How did you make dead ends tricky?
- Is it harder to make a maze or solve one?
- Where are mazes in real life?
Take it further
Add a monster in the maze that solvers must avoid.
Pairs well with
Free for home and classroom use. Print as many copies as you need.
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