How To Draw A Labyrinth

Yesterday, I talked about Labyrinth's and how awesome they are, and today I will show you how to draw one.

You can draw one on anything; paper, sidewalk, paint one on a bed sheet (so you could walk it), you can even sew one, or make one in your back yard with river rocks.

First, you start with a cross.  If you are drawing one on a piece paper, you will want the cross to be on the bottom half of the page, not right in the middle.

Then add dots into each outer corner  to make the shape of a square.

If you want to do a Labyrinth with more paths, your starting point would look like this instead.

Then you start at the top of the cross, draw an arch and land at the first dot.

You always start at the left side and finish at the right for this type of labyrinth. Or you could change it up and do the opposite going right to left.


If it still does not make sense, take a look at these directions for the added visual of arrows showing you where the line begins and ends.

Then just keep going, until all the dots and lines are connected.

And Ta Da! You are done!

 The arrow marks the threshold and where you would enter.  Trace your finger to the center and back out again.  There is only one way in and one way out.

Have fun tracing!  Penelope is still a little too young to trace her finger, but she had fun drawing on the step next to me.  When she is older, this will be a fantastic activity to do, if we need to take a break from something and calm down.

Let me know if you have any questions.