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Bear – 3rd Grade

Marble Madness

Elective

Requirement 5

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Bear – 3rd Grade

Marble Madness

Elective

Requirement 5

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Snapshot of Activity

Create a maze for marbles.

Indoor

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Supply List

Shallow cardboard box, cardboard box lid, or sheet cake pan, one for each Cub Scout
Pipe cleaners and or straws, enough to share
Construction paper in assorted colors, enough to share
Tape to share
Scissors, a pair for every 2 Cub Scouts
Marbles

Possible additional supplies to build the maze

Directions

Before the meeting:

Gather supplies.
Build a sample maze using a shallow cardboard box and lanes defined by construction paper.
Set up meeting space with room for Cub Scouts to build a marble maze.

During the meeting:

Explain to Cub Scouts that a maze is a game with a defined starting point and end point. The goal is to get from the starting point to the end point by navigating the various twists and turns.
- Mazes can be varying levels of complexity. The more corners, turns, and dead ends the mazer has, the more challenging it will be.
- The marble is navigated through the maze by the player holding the maze and twisting and turning the maze to control the direction of the marble through the maze.
Share your marble maze design. Point out what you did and how you could make it different.
Allow Cub Scouts time to select their materials and build their maze.
Have Cub Scouts use their maze with their marbles. Ask each Cub Scout to share their maze with the den.

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