Infinite Marble Maze Game

Kids get a new game, play it a few times, it gets boring, and thats the end of that. The game gets tossed in a closet or drawer somewhere and left for eternity. That wont happen when you make an infinite marble maze game that can be changed to something new each and every time they play. Making the marble maze game is as simple as driving a few nails into a piece of wood.

Purchase a board at a craft store and use it make the marble maze game. The board should be at least 12"x12". The board, however, shouldnt be much larger than that. Use a ruler and a pencil to draw a grid on the board to mark different squares. Make each square an inch and a half wide by an inch and a half long. Make 6 of the squares, side-by-side, across the top of the board. Make a row of 6 more below that row, and another row below that one, until you have six rows with 6 squares in each row. Create the grid so that theres a border of wood around it.

At each intersection of the grid, hammer a nail in just a bit, then take it back out. This will create tiny holes which will guide you, later, as you paint the grid. To make it easy to paint the maze, cut cardboard squares which are an inch and a half squared. Dip each cardboard piece into acrylic paint and stamp it onto one of the squares. If possible, paint at least two or three different colors onto the squares. Make just one square black - or another color; it will be the goal. Paint any one corner a single color as well; it will be the starting square. When all the squares are painted hammer tiny nails into each intersection. Now use small rubber bands to put up barriers throughout the marble maze. Start by stretching rubber bands across more than one nail to create a perimeter around the game. Then, add additional rubber bands, inside the perimeter, to create walls and barriers. Start with one to three marbles on the starting square and tilt the board, this way and that, to get them all into the goal square. The goal square should have three barrier walls around it to contain the marbles as they arrive. Kids will never tire of the marble maze because the various boards you can create, moving some of the rubber bands around each time, are truly infinite. Before each game simply unhook a rubber band from one nail, wrap it around another, and do this to several of the rubber bands. It will be a whole new game each and every time you play! See the marble maze game here.