Build a Hexbug LEGO Maze

Challenge your child to build a LEGO maze for a hexbug. We used white LEGO bricks for a fun winter theme. I get commissions for purchases made through the affiliate links in this post. 

Build a Hexbug LEGO Maze

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Grab your LEGO bricks to design a maze for a hexbug. (You could also use a ball, a marble, a car, or any toy you’d like.) Use a LEGO base plate to help keep the maze walls intact or you can build directly on the floor or table.

Add turns and dead ends to your maze. You can vary the difficulty of the maze by adding more wrong paths. If you’re building the maze with or for young children, stick to a simple path with few or no wrong turns.

For our maze, we used white LEGO bricks on a grey base plate. We created our path to be 3 bricks wide. This was just wide enough for a hexbug. Make sure your path is wide enough for your car/toy. Double check your turns and adjust the path as needed.

Watch the video to see our maze in action:

Don’t want to make a LEGO maze? Build a maze out of what you have available. Try blocks, craft sticks, books, etc.

Check out our collection of hexbug maze and habitat ideas for even more ideas.

More LEGO Activities for Kids

• Check out the Unofficial Guide to Learning with LEGO for over 100 LEGO activities.
• Build a LEGO Playground
• LEGO bowling and graphing

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This post was originally published on January 18th, 2018.