Ask an adult to assist in all steps of building the maze. Hammer the wooden stakes into the ground in pairs throughout a flat lawn or field to create the general outline of the maze. Space the stakes about two feet apart, forming a path with just a few turns and dead ends. This will allow the rabbit enough room to hop easily through the maze.
Roll out the plastic snow fence. Create the walls of the maze by attaching the fencing to the stakes with the plastic ties. The maze should be sturdy enough so that it will not collapse if the rabbit hops into one of the walls.
At the end of each section and dead end, use the scissors to cut the fencing. Butt the ends of the cut fencing together to avoid gaps that the rabbit could fit through.
Allow the rabbit to smell the first food so that it is interested in its prize. Place the food at the end of the maze and the rabbit at the beginning.
Use a stopwatch to measure how it takes the rabbit to reach the food and record the amount of time when finished. You may have to give the animal a quick, friendly nudge if it gets stuck in a corner or dead end.
Repeat the process once per day until each food is used twice. If the rabbit never reaches a particular food -- carrots, for example -- the experiment was not necessarily a failure. Simply record that the rabbit did not reach that food rather than recording a time.
Check your recordings to determine which food motivated the rabbit the most. If there is a tie, you may repeat the steps once again using only those two foods. If there is still no consistent winner, you may conclude that two foods -- hay and pellets, for example -- are equally desired by the rabbit.