Large Maze for Ages 8-10 — Set 579723
An explorer is lost somewhere in a 16×12 maze of ruined corridors, and the 8- to 10-year-old holding the pencil is the only one who can find the way out.
1 A4 page · for home and classroom use
Maze: large (ages 8+)
How to use this worksheet
- Read the opening of the story aloud: the explorer came in through the gate on the edge of the maze and must reach the far exit before sunset.
- Your child draws the route, narrating what the explorer finds in each dead end, such as a locked door or a fallen stone.
- At the exit, your child writes one closing sentence in the margin about how the explorer got home.
What this worksheet teaches
The large grid, with 192 cells, is long enough for a real journey with several setbacks, which suits a story well. Inventing events at each dead end keeps a child motivated through the trial and error that big mazes require. Combining planning with storytelling also practices sequencing, because the story events must follow the order of the path.
Play idea
After finishing, your child can draw a tiny map legend in the margin with their own symbols, for example a cross for the camp and a wavy line for a river, and add them to empty dead ends. The maze becomes the explorer's hand-drawn map to keep.