A-MAZing Kids

Puzzle pathways lead to creative thinking. A-MAZing activities help kids see that the fun in reaching goals is the planning and process of getting there.

1. Plan a maze on one of your favorite themes. Pizza? A trip to an amusement park? A soccer championship? Decide what the goal will be at the end.

2. In one corner of your paper, use Crayola® Erasable Colored Pencils to write Start. In another corner write Finish. Add pictures to the Start and Finish that illustrate your theme and the end goal.

3. Draw your maze in between the Start and Finish. Put in lots of twists and turns and dead-ends on the many paths, creating one clear pathway that leads from start to finish. If you change your mind, just erase!

4. On both sides of the pathways, add pictures to make the trip interesting.

5. Think up new ways to draw a maze, such as in a circle or square. Swap mazes with friends and have fun finding your way through each other's puzzles.

Adult supervision is required for any arts & crafts project.

Gorgeous Holiday Gift Boxes

Heroic Statue

Texture-Triangle Quilt

Crafts

crayola supplies

• Erasable Colored Pencils
• Construction Paper

"My kids made mazes for each other. They timed themselves to see who could create the most complicated maze."
Daulton J., dad of four kids ages 5 to 13.

"During our bus trip to the zoo, the kids made and played animal mazes. It seemed like we got there in no time!"
Hitomi H., summer playground counselor.

The Cretan Maze, a simple puzzle game of pathways drawn from a central point, has been found on clay tablets in Greece dating back to 1200 BCE.