My Little Duckling (as she likes to be called) loves mazes. In fact, I’ve been surprised at how good she is at them! And it turns out, that mazes are not just a time-filler that the teacher hands out at school. They actually have educational benefits! They help to develop hand-eye coordination and teach the child to develop problem solving strategies. So there you go! But for some reason you don’t see maze books very often so today I took a few minutes before breakfast and made our own maze book.
First, I went to this website which gives a list of links to 56 mazes of varying difficulty. With a few exceptions, the mazes have wholesome themes and decent illustrations. I printed several off and then slid them into old page protectors. Now the children can fill them in using a dry erase marker, wipe the page protector off and come back and do the maze again!
Some of the mazes we chose were simple:
Some had particularly interesting outlines and designs:
The shapes of the lines varied from maze to maze, which is good for visual discrimination:
And some of the mazes were increasingly difficult:
So there you have it… Our maze book! I haven’t done many pre-reading exercises with my Little Duckling and notice that she does have some trouble telling the difference between letters that look similar: p and b, e and c, f and t… So hopefully our new maze book will help with that!
She loves it! I can see this being a big hit in long car-trips…
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