Mazes Teaching Resources
Explore printable and digital mazes for kids created by teachers for your primary classroom! This collection of curriculum-aligned teaching resources is full of options designed to make students think logically and strategically to find the correct path in their maze!
Boost engagement and challenge students to use critical thinking, spatial reasoning and more to solve mazes that integrate their core learning areas into fun puzzles.
Looking for fresh ways to use mazes in the classroom? Read on for a primer from our teacher team!
What Is a Maze? A Kid-Friendly Definition
Sure, you know what a maze is, but how do you introduce these games to your students?
Try this kid-friendly definition to explain mazes to your class: A maze is a fun puzzle filled with different paths and walls. It's a puzzle you have to solve by finding your way from start to finish. Sometimes there are twists and turns, dead ends and tricky choices, so you have to think carefully to figure out the right path to reach the end.
Ideas to Use Mazes in the Classroom
This collection of maths mazes, English puzzles and more ensures you don't have to hit the web for tutorials on how to make mazes that will keep you up until the wee hours. But aside from the obvious, how do you incorporate them into the classroom?
- Use mazes for enrichment for early finishers. A challenging maze is so fun your fast finishers won't realise they're still practicing their skills!
- Add them to your prize chest. Mix up your prize chest with a little brain game.
- Send them home in holiday and summer break packets. Want to prevent that learning loss that can occur over a long break from school? A fun maths maze can help keep those brains fresh!
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Converting Percentages – Maths Mazes
Practise converting fractions, decimals and percentages with this set of maths mazes.
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Christmas Activity Mazes – Addition and Subtraction
Navigate these Christmas maze worksheets with some simple addition and subtraction to keep those minds active!
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Perimeter of Composite Shapes Maze
Use this perimeter maze when teaching your students how to calculate the perimeter of composite shapes.
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Find the Whole From a Percent — Year 6 Maths Mazes
Print a set of 3 maths mazes for year 6 to practise solving percentage problems.
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Addition Maze – Dog and Bone Worksheet
A worksheet to use to practise finding missing addends.
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Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Maze - 'Bb'
A fun maze to use when learning how to identify uppercase and lowercase letters.
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Maths Mazes (Two-digit Addition)
A set of three mazes that require students to add two-digit numbers.
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Percy's Place Value Puzzle
A worksheet to use to consolidate student understanding of place value to the thousands.
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Christmas Activity Printables - Holiday Puzzles
Have some word-friendly Christmas fun with a pack of printable Christmas word games for kids.
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Estimating Sums & Differences Maths Mazes
Sharpen your students’ rounding and estimation skills with a set of maths mazes.
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Christmas Activity Sheets
Explore these 6 different Christmas activity sheets in the lead-up to Christmas.
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Counting by 10's Maze
Find the fun and learn to skip count by 10s up to 100 with this engaging maze activity!
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Addition Maze – Bike Ride Worksheet
A worksheet to use to practise finding missing addends.
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Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Maze - 'Dd'
A fun maze to use when learning how to identify uppercase and lowercase letters.
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6 x Dinosaur Mazes
A set of 6 fun mazes with a dinosaur theme.
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Christmas Maze Printables - Holiday Vocabulary
Boost vocabulary skills and bring some Christmas spirit to your classroom with a pair of printable Christmas vocabulary worksheets!
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Word Chain Mazes - Worksheets
Colour a path through the maze by identifying the changing phoneme to create a continuous word chain.
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Estimating Decimal Sum and Differences — Year 6 Maths Mazes
Year 6 students can practise estimating solutions to decimal addition and subtraction equations with this set of maths mazes.
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Syllable Type Mazes - Worksheets
Strengthen students’ understanding of the six types of syllables with this set of 6 syllable mazes.
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Technology Maze
A fun technology-themed maze for students to complete.
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Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Maze - 'Ww'
A fun maze to use when learning how to identify uppercase and lowercase letters.
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Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Maze - 'Ss'
A fun maze to use when learning how to identify uppercase and lowercase letters.
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Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Maze - 'Ii'
A fun maze to use when learning how to identify uppercase and lowercase letters.
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Identifying Even Numbers Worksheet
A fun activity to help your students to identify even numbers.
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Underwater Escape! - Maze
A fun marine themed maze for students to complete when learning about oceans.
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Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Maze - 'Zz'
A fun maze to use when learning how to identify uppercase and lowercase letters.
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Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Maze - 'Yy'
A fun maze to use when learning how to identify uppercase and lowercase letters.
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Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Maze - 'Xx'
A fun maze to use when learning how to identify uppercase and lowercase letters.
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Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Maze - 'Vv'
A fun maze to use when learning how to identify uppercase and lowercase letters.
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Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Maze - 'Uu'
A fun maze to use when learning how to identify uppercase and lowercase letters.
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Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Maze - 'Tt'
A fun maze to use when learning how to identify uppercase and lowercase letters.
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Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Maze - 'Rr'
A fun maze to use when learning how to identify uppercase and lowercase letters.