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Mazes for Preschoolers: Free Printable Mazes and Tips
By Sadia Afrin, Early Childhood Educator · 3 min read
Mazes build planning and pencil control. Here are three free mazes and tips for solving them.
Mazes are a classic for good reason. They teach children to plan ahead, notice dead ends and steer a pencil with care.
What mazes teach
- Planning and problem solving
- Pencil control
- Focus and patience
- Trying again after a dead end
Tips for solving mazes
- Trace the path with a finger first.
- Start at the green dot.
- If you hit a dead end, go back and try another way.
- Try looking from the end back to the start.
- Use a pencil so you can rub out.
Help without taking over
Ask questions like Which way looks open? rather than showing the path. Celebrate trying again.
Using the free mazes
Page one has two easy mazes. Page two has a bigger one for confident solvers. Every maze has a way through.
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Free Printable Mazes
Two A4 pages with three mazes: two easy starters on page one and a bigger challenge on page two.
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