[For school cultural festivals] Recommended maze ideas and traps
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!
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[For cultural festivals and school festivals] Recommended maze ideas and traps (31–40)
Tag in a giant maze
If you want to add thrill and a game-like feel, a great idea is to try playing tag inside a maze.
Several “demons” (taggers) roam the maze, and the player aims for the goal while avoiding being caught.
In a giant maze with narrow corridors and walls taller than you are, there’s the thrill of not knowing where you’ll encounter a demon, and just imagining that jolt when you turn a corner and run into one is terrifying, isn’t it? You can expand the possibilities endlessly with ideas like save points that let you restart from the middle even if you’re caught, or items that allow you to defeat the demons!
Sugoroku maze
How about creating a maze in a sugoroku style where you move forward by the number that comes up on a die or roulette? Thinking up instructions, penalties, and occasional rewards for each space could be part of the fun.
You can also include branches as maze elements, adding penalties for dead ends or the hassle of backtracking.
By combining sugoroku with a maze, you can broaden the possibilities for customization, such as increasing the number of traps and trials.
Another key point is that you can adjust the difficulty through the instructions on each space.
Place an omikuji (fortune slip) along the way
When you go for your first shrine visit of the year, you can’t help but draw an omikuji fortune slip.
Even knowing it’s a kind of fortune-telling, you still get excited or disappointed over “great blessing” or “bad luck.” How about placing such omikuji in the middle of a maze? Regular omikuji that tell your “fortune of the day” are fine, but let’s add a twist to make it more exciting! For example, when someone tries to draw an omikuji and lifts the cylinder, a siren goes off!! They’d panic while still holding the tube, right? Or when they go to pull a slip, they get targeted by a water gun.
Please prepare lots of clever tricks that “hold people up” in the maze!
You can’t proceed unless you win rock-paper-scissors.
A simple trap where someone lies in wait partway through a maze and challenges you to rock-paper-scissors, and you can’t proceed unless you win.
It’s an easy trial to set up as long as there’s a person, yet if you keep losing, there’s a real chance you’ll never move forward.
There are countless so-called foolproof strategies for rock-paper-scissors—like how people tend to throw a certain hand when they’re nervous, or how their choice becomes predictable if you stop them once before the match—so I’d like to stand in the way as a formidable opponent while taking cues from those tactics.
Time Trial Maze
For everyone thinking about attractions for the school festival, how about a giant maze made with lots of cardboard boxes and plastic bags? It has a simple structure, so you can put it together easily in about two hours.
It’s perfect for events like school festivals where prep time is limited! You can make it more game-like by adding options such as requiring participants to crawl like a baby or including a time trial.
Try discussing with your class to add your own twists, like creative decorations for the maze or fun penalty challenges!
[For cultural and school festivals] Recommended maze ideas and traps (41–50)
Create a dead end
A maze classic! Here are some ideas for creating dead ends.
Dead-end paths are a staple of mazes.
People who understand the rules will quickly correct their course.
However, since small children may also take part, it might be a good idea to put up signs that say things like “Dead End.” It’s an idea so standard it’s easy to overlook, but with a bit of ingenuity, you can really entertain your visitors.
Be sure to incorporate it while adding your own twists.
Beehive Cardboard Maze
Let’s build it by combining hexagonal cardboard! Here are some ideas for a honeycomb cardboard maze.
When you think of a cardboard maze, many people may imagine assembling flat pieces together.
This time, let’s use cute honeycomb-like hexagonal cardboard sections to create the course of the maze.
Visitors making their way through will feel as if they’ve transformed into bees.
Feel free to adapt the idea and give it a try!