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How to Draw a Maze for Kids TUTORIAL
Posted by: charlestworet.blogspot.com
How to Draw a Maze for Kids TUTORIAL
Posted by: charlestworet.blogspot.com
How to make a maze with your kids [quick tutorial] – Learn how!
Obsessed with mazes
My kids are obsessed with mazes. I don't know why, but they are. I secretly like it, as information technology has a few benefits: it trains their problem solving skills (and their patience – ha ha!)!
It got even better: I made them a few mazes (very simple ones) and they started to copy me, drawing mazes themselves! I did not have to explain anything (although, in hindsight, they could take done with a strategy), they just started to draw.
I loved this even more than: they used their skills to *create* a problem for me to solve! At present that's fostering problem-solving skills! And fun!
How to make a maze
Right, making a maze. How do you lot start? A maze is a network of complex passages with only one single escape route. The object is to find this route. There is a whole mathematical reasoning behind maze design (and I suspect there'southward even a friendly geek community hiding somewhere organising maze conventions). If you're interested, by all means, pay a visit to these website, where maze theory, maze blueprint and algorithms are explained. It'southward pretty interesting, simply we're starting at 'entry level'.
Outset by making a wide shape. Any shape will work, as long as in that location is enough space to adjust lines to actually create a maze ; )
Describe another shape inside. To start, simply offset the original drawing (I think that looks all-time), but leave a few gaps. You understand why.. (Later on, after designing your offset maze, you can introduce different sections here to increase the complexity of the maze).
Repeat this procedure: add a few 'onion rings' with gaps.
Right, the fun part: draw the solution. Use a pencil (for obvious reasons) and press as lightly as you can, to make a thin visible line that you lot can erase later. We don't want to make it too easy for our kids, right?
Now, have a good look at the solution and close any alternative paths. Take your fourth dimension for this, making sure in that location are no shortcuts. A perfect maze has only one solution.
Well done, your outset maze!
OK, so that was elementary. You can add complexity by dividing the outer shape into sections, and create mazes within mazes. Or you can connect mazes one-after-the-other.
The seriously maze-obsessed must be upset past my simple have on mazes. I hear you, but it'southward beyond the scope of this weblog to go into detail. This is simply an introduction to mazes, a 'teaser' if y'all will. But I'm happy to straight y'all to the more serious and challenging side of maze mathematics, algorithms and programming. Find instructions, theory, design, explanations and brilliant examples (I hear your sigh of relief).
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