Printable Picture Mazes Worksheets
These picture mazes for kindergarten have wide paths, a start picture and a finish picture, like a dog finding its bone. Each printable sheet has four mazes and an answer key, and gives children pencil control practice along with some early planning.
Targeted Practice by Skill
About Picture Mazes
What this skill is
A maze asks a child to find one path from start to finish without crossing a wall. That takes two things at once: steady pencil control to stay between the lines, and looking ahead to see where a path ends before going down it.
When children learn it
Simple picture mazes are a preschool and kindergarten activity. Common Core doesn't list mazes as a standard. The easy level here is a 4 by 4 grid and the hardest is 6 by 6, with more turns and dead ends.
Teaching Tips
- Ask your child to trace the path with a finger first. If the finger hits a dead end, it can back up with nothing to erase.
- Start with the easy level and move up once your child finishes a maze without crossing a wall.
Common Mistakes
- Drawing into a dead end and then cutting straight through a wall to get out.
- Racing ahead without looking where the path goes, then having to scribble out a wrong turn.
- Letting the pencil line run over the walls on tight corners.