How it happend in our family, using different products and materials for training and achievement of every ABA goal was always indispensable. Just so as to make the learning process more interesting and flexible we are trying to diversify objects used during teaching time. And – what is more important – do not make it boring neither for you nor for your child! When it comes to mazes and problem-solving – chances are equal and your kid will beat you to the end. Age isn’t necessarily an advantage.
Mazes are lots of fun for kids but also bringing a lot of challenge we can use in ABA therapy. Problem solving, hand-eye coordination, strenght, abalance, fingers manipulation, concentration, trial and error process learning, developing fine motor skills and first writting abilities. More – exercise memory and cognitive thought processes, patience and persistence.
For me that was very enough to start ‘googling’ for free printables and search for maze books and similar materials.
And what I found just surprised me! Huge nuber of articles to buy and a lot of gratis sheets to print with a variety that amazed me.
I found this Usborne Big Maze Book with over 50 great mazes with many different stories attached. Plus – in the end of the book there is a solution sections so you can always check for the ‘way out’ of the labyrinth you chose.
Other, easier version for the beginners – Whipe-Clean Mazes with 14 stimulating ‘wipe and clen’ mazes to improve manual skills such us pen control.
Here are some sites which offer a wide range of mazes with diffrenet difficulties and designes. Our favorite is Krazydad . He bits all the rest but if you manage to finish all his creations you can skip to another site.
MrPrintables with free printable mazes.
Kidspot and mazes also mixed with different type of games.
Education site with mazes’ worksheets.
We used to laminate our prints and reuse them whenever and wherever. The Thermal Laminator form AmazonBasics is cheep and compatible with letter-size, legal-size, business-card-size, and photo-size papers so you can also use it for other matters as well.
As you will need more markers I can recommend absolutely revolutionary set of eight colours Chalk Markers – dust free for asthma/allergy sufferers. Non-toxic! 3+, water-based, no odour, xylene free, eco friendly. In short – great deal for kids on spectrum.
Alina Magdalena Pilipionek
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