Halloween mazes
30 mazes shaped like the season: pumpkin, ghost, bat and witch hat. The shape is the board itself, openings sit on the outline, and each card prints the measured route and dead end count of its own maze.
30 printable sheets ·
Checked and published by 
Nora Quill
Pumpkin mazes
Eight round boards with the stem on top as a narrow spur. The fattest silhouette of the page and the closest to a classic maze, which makes it the right one to start with.
Ghost mazes
Eight boards down a dome and out through the wavy hem, whose three bumps hang below the body as pockets. Two of them usually dead end; one sometimes hides the way out.
Bat mazes
Seven wide boards across two jagged wings and a small body. The wings barely touch the body, so every route funnels through two narrow shoulders, and that is where it gets mean.
Witch hat mazes
Seven boards down the cone and along the brim. The tip of the cone narrows to corridors one cell wide, and the brim runs shallow and long: two very different mazes stitched at the band.
Four shapes for the season
Every maze here is carved inside a Halloween silhouette: a fat pumpkin with its stem, a ghost with a wavy hem, a bat with jagged wings, and a witch hat from tip to brim. The silhouette is the maze itself: openings sit on the outline, corridors fill the shape, and the solution route runs through the picture. Each shape comes in easy, medium and hard grid sizes, stated on every card with the measured route length and dead end count of that exact board.
Which shape for which solver
The pumpkin is the roundest and the friendliest, the right first sheet for the little ones. The ghost hides its exits among the three bumps of its hem, which children find funnier than they should. The bat is the mean one: its wings connect to the body through two narrow shoulders, and every route has to thread them. The witch hat is really two mazes stitched at the band, a cramped cone and a long shallow brim, and the hard size hat is the sneakiest board on the page.
Class parties and the trick-or-treat lull
Print the easy pumpkins and ghosts as a settle-down activity for an October classroom, and keep the hard bats for the fast finishers. At home they fill the gap between costume-on and doorbell time. The solution is the last page of each PDF, so print without it to hand out puzzles freely and keep a full copy in your folder, and the catalogue number under each board finds that same maze again next October.
More like this
The same shaped engine builds the Christmas mazes, the Thanksgiving mazes and the year-round animal mazes. For Halloween sheets that are not mazes, the color by number pages run the same free-PDF pattern. Plain rectangular boards at every size live on the main mazes page. As everywhere on this site: true A4 pages, 15mm margins, print at 100 percent, one proved route per maze.
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.