{"id":865,"date":"2022-02-16T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obsidianeducation.wordpress.com\/2022\/02\/16\/brain-boosting-activities-for-kids-mazes\/"},"modified":"2025-01-04T17:07:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T17:07:34","slug":"brain-boosting-activities-for-kids-mazes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obsidiansofteducation.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/16\/brain-boosting-activities-for-kids-mazes\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain Boosting Activities for Kids: Mazes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have been doing a lot of maths and reading comprehension worksheets lately but haven’t done any brain-boosting activities for a long time. Hence, I thought that I should make some worksheets that have no reading or writing in them but pure fun. When it comes to brain-boosting activities that are also quite fun, mazes are the first thing that comes to my mind.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Why is maze solving a brain-boosting activity?<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n
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Why is maze solving a brain-boosting activity?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\ud83d\udfe2 Mazes improve the cognitive skills of children. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\ud83d\udfe2 When a maze puzzle is placed in front of children, it boosts their brain by making them think, reason, and remember. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\ud83d\udfe2 They have to first understand the puzzle, work out a way \u270f\ufe0f while remembering the dead ends. It makes them focus \ud83d\udc40 and sharpens their memory; Mazes are amazing for stimulating the brains inside the little heads of our children.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\ud83d\udfe2 In today’s world, children are too much dependent on screens and it is dulling their brains. With maze printouts, children get time away from the screen while their brains are also being challenged; a win-win situation.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Hence, I started working on some maze puzzles. I used an online maze generator to generate these puzzles and redesigned them by adding things that fascinate my eight-year-old son. He loves superheroes, Harry Potter, and cheeseburgers so I incorporated all these things in these puzzles. To tell you the truth, I wanted to add characters like zombies, Carnage, and Venom too but I thought that it might be a bit too scary for other children. My son is obsessed with the extended world of Spider-man. There are 4 easy-to-solve mazes and 2 slightly more challenging mazes.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I hope your children enjoy solving these mazes as much as I enjoyed making them. If you would like more of these maze activity packs, do let me know in the comments. Also, tell me about your kids’ favorite characters so I incorporate them into your customized mazes.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Hello friends, I have been doing a lot of maths and reading comprehension worksheets lately but haven’t done any brain-boosting activities for a long time. Hence, I thought that I should make some worksheets that have no reading or writing in them but pure fun. When it comes to brain-boosting activities that are also quite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[41,44,45,50,51,58,59],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worksheets","tag-grade-3","tag-grade1","tag-grade2","tag-kindergarten","tag-logic-building","tag-precoding","tag-preschool","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obsidiansofteducation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obsidiansofteducation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obsidiansofteducation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obsidiansofteducation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obsidiansofteducation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/obsidiansofteducation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5765,"href":"https:\/\/obsidiansofteducation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/5765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obsidiansofteducation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obsidiansofteducation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obsidiansofteducation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}