Build a Hexbug Maze with Craft Sticks

Do your kids love hexbugs as much as mine do? Challenge them to build a hexbug maze with craft sticks. It’s super easy and super fun. Affiliate links are included in this post.

Build a Hexbug Maze with Craft Sticks

We built a hexbug track using cardboard tubes. Aiden loved that activity so much. He also loves seeing all of the hexbug tracks everyone else builds. The most recent one was the hexbug maze using straws that Buggy and Buddy made. I asked Aiden what else we could use besides straws. He suggested LEGO and craft sticks. We had done the LEGO maze before, so we went with the craft sticks. We have a nice stash thanks to CraftProjectIdeas.com. We love that they send us craft supplies every once in a while.

What You’ll Need:

• Large piece of cardboard (or another surface to build on)
• Craft sticks
• Tape
• HEXBUG Nano (affiliate link to a 5-pack)

Tape the craft sticks to the cardboard. You can either stack the craft sticks flat and tape them down like we did at the beginning or you can stand the craft sticks on their sides and tape them down. Aiden added pebbles to the beginning of the maze.

We used a tape that wasn’t very sticky at first. It was easy to move the craft sticks around if we needed to. Then, we added regular transparent tape to pieces that needed a bit more strength like when the hexbug ran into the craft stick and pushed it over.

We designed it so the hexbug has a few options for traveling through the maze. Here’s the whole maze from above.

This was only half of our piece of cardboard, so I think we’ll keep adding on to our maze and let the hexbugs run through it some more.

Click here to see even more hexbug mazes and habitat ideas.

More Building Projects for Kids

• Use craft sticks and magnets to build a refrigerator marble run – you can rearrange the pieces!
• Make a Cookie Delivery Rube Goldberg Machine
• Invent a bouncy ball machine by combining two simple machines: a lever and an inclined plane.

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