Two Medium Mazes for Ages 6-8 — Set 77317

Grab a gray pencil and a bright felt-tip: on these two medium 12×9 mazes, 6- to 8-year-olds sketch their attempts in gray and ink only the final path in color.

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1 A4 page · for home and classroom use

All printables: Mazes

Maze: medium (ages 6-7)

How to use this worksheet

Use the gray pencil freely for exploring, dead ends and backtracking included.
Once a gray line links the entrance to the exit, trace over just that route with the bright color.
On the second maze, try to use less gray: can the exploring be shorter this time?

What this worksheet teaches

The 108 cells on each board give plenty of room for trial and error, and the two-color method makes the difference between a draft and a final answer visible. It introduces the idea of drafting, which children meet later in writing and math. Tracing precisely over a line with a felt-tip is excellent control practice, and comparing the gray on both boards shows how planning improved.

Play idea

Hold the finished sheet up to a window: the colorful line shows the solution, the gray lines show all the thinking. Ask your child to tell the story of one gray dead end.

Questions and answers

Questions from parents

Why not just erase wrong turns?

Keeping the gray attempts lets your child see their own thinking and learn from it instead of hiding it.

Which colors work best?

A soft gray pencil for attempts and any bright felt-tip or crayon for the final path; the black-and-white grid shows both clearly.

Are both mazes equally difficult?

Both are 12×9 grids for ages 6-8 with different random layouts, so they are similar in size but each has its own route.