21 Free Printable Mazes for Kids of all Ages

Mazes aren’t just beneficial for little ones, they can be used at all ages. Check out tons of printable mazes for kids of all ages. These will benefit your students from preschool all the way through to high school age.

Printable Mazes for Kids

We all know that mazes are important for younger kids as they practice and build their fine motor skills. Mazes puzzles have so many other benefits that are great for older kids as well. 

Benefits of Mazes

• For young learners, mazes can introduce problem-solving skills, boost patience and improve their cognitive skills.
• Mazes also help to improve hand-eye coordination and small motor skills while improving memory, enabling concentration and focus, and sharpening spatial reasoning.
• Solving mazes builds confidence as it provides a sense of accomplishment.

Mazes Improve Thinking Skills

I truly enjoy the idea of improving my kids’ thinking skills with something that is fun for them. Working on mazes provides different benefits to each of my children.

I feel as though my middle schooler, who is studious and book-smart, benefits from mazes because it improves her critical thinking skills. I provide her with math equation mazes or hard mazes because she enjoys coming up with solutions and solving problems.

My son, on the other hand, is super active. I enjoy giving him mazes because it allows him to focus and concentrate on one thing at a time. Mazes provide a way for his brain to relax when it feels like sometimes it can a mile a minute.

We’ve searched the internet to compile this HSG FREE Resource Roundup list for you. But if you need or want something quickly, we recommend our FREE Science Mazes Fun Activity Unit for Elementary Kids available at the bottom of this post.

Free Printable Mazes for Kids

Help enforce all of these skills with these easy (and some challenging) printable mazes for kids of all ages.

Easy and Fun Preschool and Kindergarten Mazes

Young children can truly benefit from working on printable mazes. It helps hand-eye coordination and builds critical thinking skills.

Printable Mazes for Preschoolers

1)Mazes and Adorable ABC Worksheets – Your little ones will enjoy practicing their ABCs with these adorable worksheet activities and letter mazes. Use the letter tracing printables to go on the right path to finish the maze.

2)Fine Motor Skill Practice with Magnetic Marble Mazes – These printable strips help your kids guide marbles through little maze patterns across the sheet. These simple mazes work on skills like: like hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, visual-spatial perception, and more.

Printable Mazes for Kindergarteners

3)Follow the ABCs Alphabet Maze – If you need the practice to reinforce the order of the alphabet with your preschoolers or kindergarteners, then this adorable alphabet maze will task younger children to put the alphabet letters in order to get out of the maze.

4)Simple and Cute Easy Kids Mazes – If your young learners enjoy mazes then this is the perfect resource for them. From monkeys trying to find their bananas on the correct path or a fish trying to jump back in its fishbowl, your kids will love these fun activities.

5)PreK and Kindergarten Skip Counting Mazes – Start building beginning math skills with fun and engaging maze worksheets. These 3 progressive mazes are a great way to help your little ones practice skip counting in your homeschool.

Printable Mazes for Elementary Kids

6)14 Downloadable Mad About Mazes Activities –Check out these mazes for your primary school kids to do for brain-break time, road trips, or just in between lessons in homeschool.

Math Maze Printables

7)Multiplication Table Practice Mazes – If you are a homeschool parent who loves to get a LOT of learning in just one swoop, then you will love these mazes that help kids practice their multiplication tables. 

8)Maze Activity to Practice Number Multiples – Rote skills aren’t everyone’s favorite but most of us can’t deny that they help kids with learning math facts and fluency. This free multiples activity is a fun way for your students to practice studying the multiples of a given number.

DIY Mazes

9)Video Tutorial for Kids to Make Their Own Mazes – This video tutorial is a great activity for kids to create and design on their own. You can download a free PDF for a simple template any school-age child will be able to build off of.

Free Middle School Mazes

10)Maze Medium Download  – This simple maze is a great simple activity for your older kids. They can use it to relax in between lessons, for a brain break, and to keep themselves busy on slow days.

11)Huge Maze Printable – Who doesn’t need a hug? Ever see a maze within a word? Well, this maze is within the three-letter word HUG. It’s adorable and your middle schoolers will find it cool.

12)Order of Operations Maze Challenge – Your middle-schoolers may be putting the order of operations into full practice now. Then provide them with a fun way to practice the order of operations with this 12 expressions maze puzzle.

13)Solving Equations with Maze Activities – Solving equations isn’t the easiest for our middle schoolers, especially if math isn’t a strong point for them. These free maze activities are an engaging way for kids to practice solving equations with a one step and two step equations worksheet.

High School Printable Mazes

When we think of mazes, we seldom think of difficult mazes for high school kids. Solving mazes can exercise your students’ brains, no matter what age they are.

14)Maze Challenges for Older Students – Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the site page to access these hard mazes for your older students to tackle at home. Some of these printable puzzles for kids look pretty fun for adults to do as well.

15)Hard Printable Hexagon Printable – There are however mazes that high school students can tackle to help their minds focus or provide them with a calming activity to complete during the homeschool day.

16)Printable Hard Maze Challenges – Help your older students challenge their brains during the homeschool day. Much of their work may be very independent. When you give them little activities like hard mazes, it helps exercise their brain.

17)Hard Mazes Printables – Solving mazes can exercise your students’ brains, no matter what age they are. This difficult maze is great for your students to challenge themselves in activities that are both practices for the mind and fun.

18)Fun but Super Hard Mazes to Challenge your Teen – These mazes look super hard, but they are great for building your teens’ academic confidence and keeping their focus and on a school, brain break during some tough lessons or in the midst of loads of work.

Hands-On Mazes for Kids

19)Make a Mini Magnet Maze – Maze fun doesn’t always come in the form of a printable or worksheet. Kids can get into mazes with fun hands-on activities like this mini-maze magnet project.

20)Create Awesome STEAM Fun with this Box Lid Maze – If your kids love building, designing, or just creating they will enjoy this Maze STEAM activity that incorporates engineering, art, and best of all critical thinking skills.

21)Super Fun and Easy Paper Plate Marble Maze for Kids – All you need for the STEM activity are basic straws, glue, marbles, and paper plates. Many of us already have some of these at home which is a parenting WIN! Here’s a tip… the more colors in your items the better.

Maze Books for Kids

Maze activity books are great to keep in the car for road trips or when you are out an about and waiting at appointments. Here are some of our favorites that you can even pull out on a rainy day.

Highlights for Children Amazing Mazes – Do you remember the fun mazes from the Highlights magazines of our childhood? These books have over over 144 pages of maze fun for your kids. 

Fun and Challenging Mazes for Kids – This maze activity book has some more complex mazes designed for kids ages 8-12.

School Zone Mazes Workbook – 64 pages of fun and colorful mazes for early learners aged 3-5.

Big Mazes and More Activity Book – 320 pages of educational mazes for 1st and 2nd graders.

FREE Sciences Mazes Activity Unit 

In this free, 12 page instant download printable your elementary kids can read a paragraph or two about a topic from life, earth, or physical science, and then complete a maze that reinforces the theme. There are a dozen total activities. Topics covered are: