How to Make Pencil Mazes

Creating your own maze is a fun way to challenge your friends.

Mazes come in many shapes and sizes, but no style of maze is more basic than a hand-drawn maze on a piece of paper. Drawing in pencil allows you to make changes to your maze as you design it, then to ink over the pencil if desired to make a permanent border for the maze. Creating your own maze is a fun way to make a maze with complete control over both the theme of the maze and the difficulty.

Things You'll Need

• Pencil
• Paper
• Ruler (optional)
• Marker or pen (optional)

Instructions

1. Draw the outline that the maze will be included within.

2. Draw a path from the starting point, then split the path into two or more routes.

3. Expand all the branches from the first split.

4. Split each branch of the path into more pathways.

5. Complete the correct path, being sure there is a way to progress from the start to the exit.

6. Fill in the remainder of the space of the outline so that the correct path can not be easily identified.

7. Cover over the lines with ink, if desired, to make the maze permanent.

References

• Mazoons; You Can Make Mazes!