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How to Make Pencil Mazes

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.

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