Two Easy Printable Mazes on One Page for Ages 3-4
Two small mazes side by side, one with a short, easy route and one that winds through almost the whole grid, give a three- or four-year-old a warm-up and a real challenge.
1 A4 page · for home and classroom use
Maze: small (ages 4-5)
How to use this worksheet
- Start with the maze on the right: its route runs along the top, down one long corridor and along the bottom to the circle, with only two turns.
- Then try the maze on the left. Its route zigzags up and down through 37 of its 48 squares.
- In both mazes the arrow on the left marks the entrance and the small circle on the right the exit.
- Use a finger first and a crayon second.
What this worksheet teaches
Two mazes of the same size but very different difficulty show a child that "small" does not always mean "quick". The right-hand maze builds confidence: the way is easy to see, so the crayon simply follows the corridor. The left-hand maze asks for patience, because the path keeps turning back up the page before it reaches the bottom. Both use the same 8 by 6 grid as our single first mazes, but with two mazes sharing the page each square is drawn about half as large, which asks for steadier crayon control.
Variation to try
Race a toy car through both mazes while you count out loud. Which trip needed more counting, and why?