Christmas mazes
30 mazes shaped like the things on the mantelpiece: the tree, the star, the gift, the stocking and the bell. Print a stack for the last school day before the holidays; the easy sizes suit early primary and the hard ones keep the fast finishers quiet.
30 printable sheets ·
Checked and published by 
Nora Quill
Christmas tree mazes
Seven boards through the three tiers of branches down to the trunk. The stepped outline makes stepped corridors, and the trunk is a narrow exit passage most wrong routes never reach.
Star mazes
Six five-pointed boards. Each point is a pocket of corridors that may or may not hold an opening, and crossing the middle is the only way between them.
Gift box mazes
Six boards of box, lid and bow. The lid runs wider than the box, which builds two shoulders of maze that connect only through the middle of the sheet.
Stocking mazes
Six boards down the leg and around the heel into the toe. The bend at the ankle is the only way through, and everything past it works like a second, smaller maze.
Bell mazes
Five boards of dome, lip and clapper, with the little handle on top as a two-cell dead end that fools almost everyone once.
Five shapes off the mantelpiece
Every maze on this page is carved inside a Christmas silhouette: a three-tier tree with a trunk, a five-pointed star, a gift box with its bow, a stocking with a proper heel, and a bell with its clapper. The shape is the board, the two openings sit on the outline, and the solution route runs through the picture. A rectangle with holly in the corner this is not.
Each shape comes in easy, medium and hard, and those are grid sizes stated on every card, roughly 20, 27 and 34 cells across, together with the measured route length and dead end count of that specific board. So one print run covers the five year old cousin and the uncle who thinks he is above this.
The last school day before the holidays
This page exists mostly for December classrooms and December kitchens. The easy trees and stars settle a class in the final restless week; the hard stocking, whose ankle bend hides a second maze past it, buys twenty quiet minutes at the kids table on the day itself. Print the puzzles in bulk without their last pages, keep one full copy in your folder, and note the catalogue number of any board that works especially well: the number finds the same maze again next December.
What pairs with these
The same shaped engine builds the Halloween and Thanksgiving pages and the year-round animal mazes. For Christmas sheets that are not mazes at all, the Christmas color by number page runs on the same one-page-one-PDF pattern. And if the season ends and the maze habit stays, the main mazes page is where the ordinary boards live.
Printing them
Free PDFs on true A4 pages with a 15mm margin, so US Letter printers crop nothing. Black and white draft quality is fine for the puzzle sheets. Print at 100 percent or actual size, never fit to page, and the solution is always the last page of the PDF: leave it off when printing for a child's stack.
How to use these sheets
- Pick a sheet and press Print. The file is a PDF sized for A4 and Letter paper.
- Print it in black and white at normal quality. None of these sheets need colour ink except the colour by number pages.
- Keep the answer page for yourself, or print it too if you want to check the work later.