Mazes (Part 1)
As I remember it, a child came into school with one of those colouring books that have dot-to-dots and the occasional maze that you're meant to find the way through with your pencil. We started talking about how hard it would be to design your own maze. It ought to be easy, we thought. Definitely easier than making a birds nest. Though these were older children, and not the same ones. The children quickly figured out that you needed one pathway through the maze to the objective, and lots of dead ends to fool the victim. But it was hard to make the path through the maze un-obvious, and the dead ends were boring. Plus, if you went wrong when you were drawing it was hard to put it right without making a mess. So then we went out into the courtyard with every plastic and wooden brick we could borrow from other classes and made mazes using those. They were more like winding pathways than mazes, but it was definitely fun to do and we spent a...