Buying guide
Mazes are often a child's first real puzzle, and a good maze book can last for months. This guide covers why mazes work so well, what makes a maze book good, and the printable pack we make.
By the Buy Activity Books team · Updated · 3 min read
A good maze book for kids starts with small, simple mazes and grows steadily, has wide paths for young hands, gives every maze exactly one route and includes an answer key. Our printable pack has 30 mazes from 6 by 6 to 14 by 14 for ages 5 to 8.
Thirty printable mazes that start small and grow, so a five-year-old can finish the first page and an eight-year-old still has a challenge at the end.
| Mazes for Kids | |
|---|---|
| Best for | 5 to 8 |
| Puzzles | 30 |
| Grid | 6 by 6 to 14 by 14 |
| Difficulty | Grows page by page |
| Pages (A4) | 40 |
| Answer key | Yes |
| Paper sizes | A4 and US Letter |
| Price | $5.99 |
Mazes need no reading, so even a pre-reader can solve one alone. They practise planning, patience and pencil control, and the finish line is easy to see.
Each maze in our pack is a little larger than the one before, growing from 6 by 6 to 14 by 14. Larger mazes have more turns and dead ends, so difficulty rises steadily through the pack.
Every maze is a perfect maze, which means there is exactly one route from start to finish and no loops. The answer key shows that route for every page, so checking is easy.
Wipe-clean books let a child redo a maze, but the same maze over and over loses its surprise. A printable pack gives the same reuse, by printing a page again, with thirty different mazes and no special pens.
Every puzzle in our packs is generated and then checked by computer before it is allowed into a pack. Anything that fails a check is thrown away and replaced.
One route per maze
Every maze is a perfect maze, so there is exactly one way through.
One solution per sudoku
Each sudoku is solved by computer and kept only if it has one answer.
Every word once
Each word-search word is checked to appear exactly once in its grid.
Answers included
Every pack ends with a full answer key, in A4 and US Letter.
Ages 5 to 8. The first mazes are small enough for a five-year-old; the last are a real challenge for eight-year-olds.
Some can, but ours cannot: each is a perfect maze with exactly one route from start to finish.
Yes. Every pack ends with a full answer key, so a parent, teacher or the solver can check the work.
Straight away. The download page opens as soon as payment goes through, and a link is emailed to you as well, so there is no shipping and no wait.
After checkout you download a PDF in both A4 and US Letter. Print it on any home, office or school printer, single or double sided. Ordinary printer paper works well for pencil.
Yes. For personal and classroom use: print as many copies as your household or class needs. You may not resell the files or the printed pages.
