Medium Maze for Ages 6-8 — Set 574009
Left, right, up and down stop being abstract words when a 6- to 8-year-old has to use them to steer a pencil through this medium 12×9 maze.
1 A4 page · for home and classroom use
Maze: medium (ages 6-7)
How to use this worksheet
- Mark your child's right hand with a small sticker or a dot of washable pen, so there is a quick way to check which side is right.
- Before every turn, the pencil waits until your child names the move, for example 'up, then right, then down'.
- At the exit, go back to the start and read the route aloud as a list of direction words.
What this worksheet teaches
A 12×9 grid offers dozens of turns, which means dozens of chances to match a word to a movement. Naming directions from the pencil's point of view is harder than from one's own body, so children practice mental rotation and careful checking, alongside planning the route and keeping a neat line.
Play idea
Write a route code. After solving, your child writes the route in the margin as a string of short words, such as 'right, down, down, left', and gives it to another family member with a clean copy of the maze. If the code leads that person all the way to the exit, the code-writer has used the direction words correctly.