Marble Maze Painting

It’s that time of week again…are you ready for another Paint and Play challenge with Growing A Jeweled Rose? The focus for our series is all about the process, having fun and getting kids excited to create art with fun and unique mediums! Our challenge this week was to get creative with MARBLES. Crystal created a chilly Ice Marble Painting, while my kids got busy building an awesome Marble Maze Painting.

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The name says it all…Marble Maze Painting. The kids had so much fun with this activity and it was so cheap and easy to do. I love that most everything for this project came from our recycle bin.

Materials Needed:

Large sheet of Cardboard with sides ~ We used the top to the box of Hardwood flooring.
Extra cardboard for making the maze
Hot Glue Gun
Marbles
Paint ~ We used washable tempera paint
Container for the paint and marbles ~ we used a plastic egg carton, which worked perfect.
A slide ~ or any incline that you can set your box on to get the marbles rolling down the maze

Start but gluing strips of cardboard to your box. We did not plan ours out ahead of time. Kaleb just glued on strips of cardboard in a maze pattern and it worked out great.

You will want to make sure that the strips are glued on at an angle. This will help guide the marble to the end of your maze and not get stuck half way down. Think pin ball machine:)

We squeezed our paint into a plastic egg carton. It holds the right amount of paint to cover the marble, and it is easy for little fingers to use. Lots of recycle bin raiding happened for this project:)

In order to get the marbles rolling, we place the box on our slide. It ended up being the perfect incline and size for our painting activity.

Dip the marble in paint, drop it at the top of the maze, and watch which to see which way it will roll.

I love all the bright paint tracks the marbles made.

The kids also enjoyed having marble races to see which paint covered marble would make it to the bottom first. Lots of sweet giggles!

Pretty paint covered marbles.

The kids had drippy paint covered fingers that we dipped in a pail of water to rinse off when they were done. We used the same bucket of water to rinse off the marbles. The clean up was really simple.

The kids loved the project and we will be doing it again soon. We stored the maze in the garage for future spontaneous maze painting. Love it!

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Growing A Jeweled Rose created a chilly Ice Marble Painting Activity! What a great way to stay cool and create art! Make sure to stop on by and check it out.