Medium Printable Maze Worksheet for Ages 5-6

A medium 12-by-9 maze whose only route keeps doubling back left and up instead of heading for the exit, so five- and six-year-olds learn that the long way round can be right.

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All printables: Mazes

Maze: medium (ages 6-7)

How to use this worksheet

Begin at the arrow on the upper left; the route first runs right along the top for several squares.
Where the path splits, stop and look ahead with your eyes before the pencil moves on.
If a corridor ends in a wall, go back to the last split and try the other branch; that is part of the game.
The exit is the small circle at the lower right, and the route touches the right-hand edge before it gets there.

What this worksheet teaches

This grid has 108 squares, more than twice as many as the small mazes. The correct route passes through 70 of them and meets 7 places where the path splits, so your child makes real decisions, with 11 dead ends along the way. The route moves left 15 times and up 10 times, away from the exit. Children who always turn toward the circle will get stuck, which is exactly the point: they learn to try, notice a dead end and go back without giving up. This backtracking is useful far beyond mazes.

Play idea

Play "pencil stays down": after a first try with a finger, can your child draw the whole route without lifting the pencil or touching a wall? Mark each success with a star.

Questions and answers

Questions from parents

Why does the route go away from the exit so often?

That is how this maze is built: the only way through winds back left and up before it reaches the circle.

My child gets frustrated at dead ends. What can I say?

Call a dead end useful information: now you know one way that does not work. Mark it with a small cross.

Is there an answer page?

Not on this card. For self-checking, choose a medium maze with an answer key.