Medium Maze for Ages 6-8 — Set 720961
Before the pencil touches the page, this medium maze asks a 6- to 8-year-old to look ahead, find the dead ends and plan the whole way out.
1 A4 page · for home and classroom use
Maze: medium (ages 6-7)
How to use this worksheet
- Give your child a minute to study the 12×9 grid without a pencil and point at corridors that look closed off.
- Mark each spotted dead end with a small dot in its opening so it can be skipped later.
- Now draw the route from entrance to exit, avoiding the dotted corridors, and see how many dots were right.
What this worksheet teaches
Spotting dead ends early is a real planning skill: the child learns to test a branch with the eyes before spending effort on it. A 12×9 grid, with 108 cells, has enough forks to make scanning worthwhile yet stays manageable for this age. The habit transfers to reading ahead in a sentence, checking a sum before writing it and thinking before acting in games.
Play idea
Turn it into a detective game: your child is the inspector who 'closes' dead-end streets with a tiny cross before the parade route is drawn. Award a point for every correct closure and take one away for any street closed by mistake.