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Real maze puzzles for children, in seven fun shapes. Slide the difficulty from a gentle first maze to a proper brain-bender, print an answer key if you want one, and get a brand-new maze every single time.
Wide, open paths with just a few turns — perfect for a little one following the route with a finger.
Generate →More twists, tighter corridors and a handful of dead ends — the everyday maze that keeps a child thinking.
Generate →A dense maze packed with dead ends. The answer key switches on automatically so you can check the solution.
Generate →Pick a shape and difficulty above, then Generate. Each click draws a brand-new maze in that shape — press New on the maker for another.
Sudoku, colouring pages, tracing practice and grade-by-grade maths — all in one free worksheet maker.
Open the full worksheet maker →A plain square maze is fine, but a child will always reach for the star or the heart one first. That's the whole idea here — the same solid maze puzzle, drawn inside seven different outlines. Under the shape it's a real maze: one way in, one way out, and exactly one path that connects them, with plenty of dead ends to catch you out along the way.
Whichever shape you pick, you get a brand-new layout every time you print. There's no small set of mazes to memorise and run out of, so the same child can do a fresh maze every day.
Difficulty is the thing most maze sites get wrong — they hand a four-year-old the same maze they'd give a ten-year-old. Here you set the age on a slider from 4 to 12. At the young end you get a simple maze with wide, open paths — easy enough for preschoolers and 4 or 5 year olds to trace with a finger. Nudge it up and the maze fills with more twists, tighter corridors and dead ends, until at the top it's a genuinely hard maze that'll keep an older child busy for a while.
Every maze can print with a matching answer key — a second page that traces the full solution in gold. It saves you squinting at a printout trying to work out whether they actually finished it, and it's a small mercy on the harder puzzles. The key switches on by itself for the tougher mazes and can be toggled for the easy ones.
Working through a maze quietly builds the things that are hard to teach directly — planning a route ahead, spotting a dead end before you reach it, and the patience to back up and try again. It's a calm, screen-free thing to hand a child on a long afternoon or a car trip, and because each printable maze comes out on plain paper, a whole stack of them costs nothing but the ink.
Seven shapes: square, circle, triangle, heart, star, diamond and hexagon. Each one is a real maze with a single path from start to finish — the shape just changes the outline the maze fills.
Yes. On the worksheet maker there's an age slider from 4 to 12. Younger settings make a small, open maze; older settings pack in more twists and dead ends. Pick the age that matches your child and the maze adjusts.
Yes. You can switch on an answer key page, which prints the full solution path for every maze in gold. It turns on automatically for the harder mazes, and you can toggle it on or off for the easy ones.
Completely free — no sign-up, no watermark. Every time you generate you get a brand-new maze, so you can print off or save as a PDF as many as you like.