Preschool mazes
30 mazes below the easiest size this site printed until now, because a 3 year old and a 5 year old are not the same solver. The age labels are grid sizes, measured and printed on every card, not opinions.
30 printable sheets ·
Checked and published by 
Nora Quill
Finger tracing mazes, corridors nearly 4cm wide
Six boards of 4 by 5 squares printed at 45mm a square, the widest corridors on the site. Before a pencil is involved at all, a small child walks the path with a fingertip, then goes over it with a chunky crayon. This is where mazes start.
Age 3: the 5 by 6 boards
Eight mazes of 30 giant squares. One or two forks, dead ends a single square deep, and a route short enough to finish in one sitting with help. The goal at this age is holding the crayon inside the corridor, and the corridor is 36mm wide to allow it.
Age 4: the 6 by 8 boards
Eight mazes of 48 squares, the first size where the wrong turning genuinely looks like the right one for a step or two. Still printed near 30mm a square, still solvable inside a few minutes.
Age 5: the 8 by 10 boards
Eight mazes of 80 squares with real dead ends at last. This is the rung just under the site's easy tier: a child who clears these sheets comfortably is ready for the easy mazes page, and the card on each sheet says exactly how long its route is.
Where mazes actually start
Until now the smallest maze this site printed was 10 by 13 squares, and for a three year old that is a wall of lines. This page goes below it, with an age ladder measured in real grid sizes: 5 by 6 boards for age 3, 6 by 8 for age 4 and 8 by 10 for age 5, plus finger tracing boards of just 4 by 5 squares printed at 45mm each, the widest corridors anywhere on this site.
The ages are honest labels for grid sizes, not child psychology. Every card states the size and the measured route of its own board, and you know your own child: if the age 4 sheet frustrates, hand over an age 3 sheet and nothing is lost but one page of paper.
The finger tracing boards come first
Before a pencil is involved at all, a small child solves a maze by walking the path with a fingertip. The tracing boards exist for exactly that: corridors close to 4cm wide, one or two forks, a route a hand can follow end to end. When the finger finds the way reliably, the same sheet works again with a chunky crayon over the traced route. That is the whole developmental ladder of this page: finger, crayon, pencil, smaller squares.
What each age size changes
- Age 3, 5 by 6. Thirty giant squares, dead ends a single square deep. The goal is keeping the crayon inside a corridor, and the corridor is 36mm wide to allow it.
- Age 4, 6 by 8. The first boards where a wrong turning genuinely looks right for a step or two.
- Age 5, 8 by 10. Real dead ends at last. A child who clears these comfortably is ready for the easy mazes page.
Practical notes for parents and teachers
Every maze carries its solution on the last page of its PDF, which at this age is less about answers and more about a grown-up checking a route at a glance across a table. Sheets are real A4 pages with a 15mm margin, so they print identically on US Letter. Print at actual size, never fit to page. And when the whole ladder here is conquered, the next stop is mazes for 7 year olds, which picks up exactly where the age 5 boards leave off.
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.