Small Maze for Ages 4-5 — Set 563885
Set 563885 is a single small 8×6 maze that a four- or five-year-old solves twice: first by walking a fingertip through the corridors, then by drawing the same route with a pencil.
1 A4 page · for home and classroom use
Maze: small (ages 4-5)
How to use this worksheet
- Ask your child to put a finger on the entrance and slide it along the corridors until it reaches the exit.
- If the finger hits a dead end, it simply goes back; nothing needs to be erased.
- Once the finger has found the way, your child draws the path with a pencil, following the same route from memory.
What this worksheet teaches
Tracing with a finger first separates two jobs that are hard to do at once at this age: finding the route and controlling the pencil. The 48-cell grid is small enough to remember after one finger run, so the pencil stage becomes steady line practice. This two-step habit also prepares pre-writers for tracing letters before writing them.
Play idea
Let the finger be a little snail that leaves an invisible trail. After the snail reaches the exit, your child makes the trail visible with the pencil, and you check together whether the snail and the pencil took exactly the same way.