Paper plate maze

This paper plate marble maze uses basic paper straws and glue. It's perfect for car rides, lazy afternoons, or a quick STEM activity for school.

Let's make a marble maze out of a paper plate. This simple maze craft is fun with younger kids because it becomes a toy and is great for older kids

Make a straw maze to help your young child with hand-eye coordination and have fun while developing that important skill!

In this STEM challenge for kids, children will create a paper plate marble maze game inspired by pinball machines using a paper plate and a marble. This engineering activity is great for kids from kindergarten age up through 4th, 5th and 6th grades! Follow our STEM for Kids Pinterest board! This post contains affiliate links....

Add the challenge of a maze to the magical appeal of magnets and you have a fun STEM activity that will have your inquisitive little scientists begging for more. It’s a good thing these mazes are easy to adapt for multiple levels, since magnets seem to attract no matter the kids’ ages! This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Getting Ready To make these paper plate mazes,

The older children helped me put together a game for their younger siblings, today. We saw the idea on Judy Jower's Flickr pages. She actually has given hers a St. Patrick's theme, and has instructions, with all the measurements, and thinking done for you. We made ours the hard way, in honor of National Pi Day. First, we used a compass to draw concentric circles, an inch or so apart, out from the center a paper plate. Then, the children measured the diameters of the circles, and multiplied…

With a paper plate, some string, glue, and a marble you can create your own DIY marble mazes to solve.

Here’s a fun homemade toy that you can put together from stuff around the house – a spiral marble track! Drop marbles at the top and watch them spin around the spiral track of paper plates until they get to the bottom. It’s very relaxing to watch. It’s no secret that we love marble runs […]

When choosing winter arts and crafts for kids, I like to to find things that can be done inside, yet incorporate winter activities for kids outside in nature as well. It helps if they are less than messy. 🙂 One of my go to places to look for winter crafts is on Pinterest, but sometimes those “easy” items I know the kids will love involve way too many steps to make it an easy fun winter craft for a class of 20+ students at one time.