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[For school cultural festivals] Recommended maze ideas and traps

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If you’re wondering what to do for your school festival exhibit, how about creating a maze?

Designing an ordinary maze can be tough, but if you want to get creative and really energize the festival, this is a must-see.

We’ve packed in ideas for traps to hide inside the maze and concepts for full-fledged maze designs—ideas that will make it an unforgettable experience for both the creators and the visitors.

From photo-worthy fun to surprising twists, this collection is full of ideas that are as enjoyable to make as they are to explore!

[For school culture festivals] Recommended maze ideas and traps (21–30)

Create courses with different difficulty levels

[Greenland] KARAKURI Castle Battle

Create courses with different difficulty levels

A humorous maze where visitors can choose their course! Here are ideas for creating routes with different difficulty levels.

At school festivals, mazes typically have only one entrance and one exit, right? If you have a large classroom or can use two rooms, why not design courses with varying difficulty so visitors can choose their path? In the video, there’s a course focused on athletics and another where you collect stamps to progress.

Be sure to give it a try!

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Newspaper Maze

Sumire Class ~ Newspaper Maze

Newspaper Maze

If you want an easy way to create a maze, why not try using newspapers? It’s simple: string up some cord along the shape of the maze and hang sheets of newspaper from it.

If everyone brings newspapers, you can keep costs down, and cleanup is easy when you’re done.

However, since newspaper tears easily, if you’re worried about durability, try pasting several sheets together.

Paint pictures or letters on the newspaper, hang props from the cords, and create your ideal maze.

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hidden mechanism door

Revolving Door DIY [with Yukkuri Commentary]

hidden mechanism door

For those of you thinking about creating a maze for your school festival—and for anyone who finds an ordinary maze a bit underwhelming—here’s a must-try idea: add a trick door inside the maze! The video shows a full-fledged version made with wood, but you can also try simpler methods, like adapting it with cardboard or using glue to assemble wooden parts.

Give it a shot! Use the video’s blueprints and rotating mechanism as references.

You’ll also learn how a revolving door is designed—educational and fun!

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100-square maze

Cardboard Maze

100-square maze

From above, the 100-square maze looks like a shape made by combining 100 tiles.

Since it can be made from familiar cardboard, its low cost is also appealing! The construction is simple—connecting box-shaped pieces of cardboard—but the key is creating a path by opening doorways wide enough for people to pass through.

It’s also fun to put together a blueprint so that you can go from the start to the goal.

At school festivals and cultural festivals, even the preparation stage becomes a cherished memory, so enjoy building the maze!

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Doodle Maze

A giant cardboard maze made by combining cardboard boxes is a classic, but how about a graffiti maze that lets visitors paint as they make their way through, for an extra layer of fun? Cardboard is an easy, familiar material to prepare, and it pairs perfectly with letting people doodle pictures and messages however they like! It also saves you the trouble of decorating the cardboard, so it’s two birds with one stone.

Having everyone in the class doodle messages to each other will become a lifelong memory, too!

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A gigantic maze in the gym and schoolyard

I tried building a giant maze in my yard lol

A gigantic maze in the gym and schoolyard

How many giant mazes at amusement and theme parks have you been to? There are tons of them in Tochigi Prefecture, like the Ninja Trick Proverb Maze, the Giant Maze Palladium, and the Maze Mori-den at Twin Ring Motegi.

But why Tochigi, I wonder? It would be spectacular if we could build a giant maze in a schoolyard or gymnasium! Since making everything out of lumber would be tough on the budget, please make good use of things already at the school—desks, vaulting boxes, and so on—and arrange them cleverly.

Considering the weather, indoors seems best!

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Alice in Wonderland-style maze

★“I want to escape from the forest maze!” Real Alice in a real Wonderland ★Real alice in real wonderland★

Alice in Wonderland-style maze

Here’s an idea for a maze themed after Alice in Wonderland, known as one of Disney’s works.

Incorporate elements throughout the maze that reflect the story—chasing the White Rabbit, stumbling into Wonderland, and getting caught up in various happenings.

Rather than simply aiming for the goal, make the inside of the maze itself Wonderland, and structure it so the player experiences a story from entering to leaving.

This will create a more memorable maze experience for players.

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