Perfect for school culture festivals! Recommended maze ideas & trap collection
Mazes are a hugely popular attraction at school festivals and cultural fairs.
But when it comes time to actually make one, many people find themselves wondering, “What kind of gimmicks should we use?” or “I don’t know how to make a haunted-house maze or a cultural-festival maze.” That’s why in this article, we’re packed with ideas to make your festival maze as exciting as possible! From stamp rallies to time attacks, it’s full of unique features that will keep visitors totally engrossed.
Team up with your classmates and create the ultimate maze that will thrill everyone!
For your school festival booth! Recommended maze ideas & trap collection (1–10)
Haunted House Maze
When it comes to cultural festivals and school festivals, is it a haunted house? A maze? Want to do both? Then why not combine them.
It might take twice as long to create and prepare, but if you’re a student aiming to make this a once-in-a-lifetime, unforgettable festival, it’s worth the challenge.
You could take inspiration from a haunted house modeled after an abandoned hospital, like the Scary Labyrinth at Fuji-Q Highland, and fuse a haunted house with a maze in your own way.
It’s an attraction that both the creators and the guests who play it will enjoy to the fullest.
Play a sound effect with a motion sensor
Recommended for students planning exhibits for school cultural festivals! Why not play spine-chilling horror sound effects in the background of your attraction? They’re available as free downloads, so they’re easy to use.
Classic haunted house and ghost story effects are great, but if you combine a giant maze with horror BGM, you can deliver an even more terrifying experience! You might also try creative touches like using motion sensors.
Both creators and participants are sure to have fun, and it’ll become an unforgettable memory! Give it a try.
Puzzle Maze
Starting with Takuji Izawa, as well as Yukari Kono and Nanaumi Ito, there seem to be more and more University of Tokyo student celebrities lately.
I often see puzzle-solving shows and variety programs where people compete with intellect and knowledge.
Everyone loves puzzles, don’t they! So how about using “puzzle-solving” as a key point in the maze? I think it would be as exciting as an escape room! Please include a variety of puzzles, such as quiz-type and cipher-type.
Since it’s just a checkpoint, I recommend not making the problems too difficult.
time bomb trap
For those of you planning a maze attraction for your school festival, here’s a way to make it even more fun.
Set up games at several points in the maze, and create a trap where a balloon time bomb “explodes” if the player doesn’t clear the game within the time limit.
Discuss the game contents with your classmates and decide together! Since making a time bomb yourself is difficult, it’s easier and safer to use a toy version.
Let’s make the school festival—an opportunity to strengthen class bonds through building the maze and designing the games—an unforgettable memory.
Mirror House
Do you know the climactic “mirror house showdown” in Bruce Lee’s masterpiece Enter the Dragon? You think the enemy is right in front of you, but it turns out to be just a reflection in the mirror; you think he escaped to the right, but he actually moved to the left—one heart-pounding twist after another.
How about incorporating that mirror house as part of a maze? If you don’t have enough real mirrors, you can use mirror spray and cleverly treat plywood or other boards.
It would also make for a highly Instagrammable photo spot!
Abandoned Hospital Maze
If you’re thinking about a maze for your school festival, why not incorporate an “abandoned hospital”? Abandoned hospitals are a common setting for ghostly attractions.
An empty hospital is scary all by itself.
For a school festival, you could place nurses and doctors with obvious blood effects to give people a fright.
Paint the maze walls white and prepare hospital-like props such as beds and medical charts.
The anxiety of getting lost and the fear of the abandoned hospital will surely make it a hit.
Trick Maze
A trick maze is, as the name suggests, a maze that includes various tricks along the way; you can’t proceed unless you solve them, giving it an escape-room-like feel.
Coming up with the tricks and actually building the mechanisms may be challenging, but if you pull it off, it’s sure to be a crowd-pleaser! When creating the tricks and puzzles, set an overarching concept and build them along a coherent story to craft a polished, immersive experience.
