Mazes for Teachers
Explore printable and digital mazes for kids created by teachers for your elementary 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 subjects 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 math mazes, ELA 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 realize 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 math maze can help keep those brains fresh!
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Time to the Hour and Half Hour - Math Mazes
Engage your students with exciting telling time practice activities with a set of printable Time to the Hour and Half Hour Math Mazes.
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Telling Time Math Mazes - 5 Minutes
Tell time to the nearest five-minute mark and have fun with a printable pack of Telling Time math mazes.
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Time Conversion Math Maze Worksheets
Convert units of time while finding your way through this set of 3 Time Conversion math mazes.
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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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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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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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Estimating Sums & Differences – 3rd Grade Math Mazes
Sharpen your students’ rounding and estimation skills with a set of 3rd grade math mazes.
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Fact Family Mazes Differentiated Worksheet Set
Use this differentiated worksheet set to provide independent practice of fact family knowledge to solve multiplication expressions.
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10 More, 10 Less - Differentiated Mazes
Delight your students with this maze challenge, to practice calculating 10 more or 10 less than a value within 120.
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Area of a Triangle – Differentiated Math Mazes
Use the area of a triangle formula as you work your way through this set of differentiated math mazes.
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Word Chain Mazes - Worksheets
Color a path through the maze by identifying the changing phoneme to create a continuous word chain.
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Find the Whole From a Percent – Math Mazes
Find your way through this set of 3 math mazes while solving 6th-grade percentage problems.
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Dividing Fractions – Math Mazes
Improve student understanding of dividing a fraction by a fraction while working through these 3 math mazes.
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Comparing Integers – Math Mazes
Compare positive and negative numbers while you work your way through this set of math mazes.
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Equivalent Ratios – Math Mazes
Practice how to find equivalent ratios with this set of math mazes.
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Converting Percentages – Math Mazes
Practice converting fractions, decimals, and percentages with this set of math mazes.
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Decimal Patterns – Math Mazes
Find your way through this set of math mazes by determining the addition or subtraction pattern in a sequence of decimal numbers.
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Order of Operations Math Maze
Evaluate numerical expressions using the order of operations with this math maze!
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Thanksgiving Math Mazes - Multiplication
Multiply single-digit numbers to help solve Thanksgiving problems with Math Mazes!
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Rounding Numbers – Math Mazes
Round numbers to various places while finding your way through this set of 5 math mazes.
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Multiplying Mixed Numbers – Math Mazes
Practice multiplying mixed numbers while finding your way through this set of 3 math mazes.
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Christmas Math Worksheets - Addition and Subtraction Mazes
Navigate these Christmas math mazes with addition and subtraction facts to keep those minds active!
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Dividing Multi-Digit Numbers – Math Mazes
Solve long division problems with multi-digit divisors while finding your way through this set of 3 math mazes.
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Absolute Value Mazes
Calculate the absolute value of rational numbers while finding your way through this set of 3 math mazes.
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Math Mazes (Multiplication and Division)
Solve these mazes by manipulating numbers using multiplication and division skills.
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Math Mazes (Place Value)
Determine the correct paths through each maze using knowledge of place value.
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Math Mazes (Skip Counting)
Skip count your way through 3 printable math mazes that focus on number sequencing.
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Counting by 5's Maze
Get to the party by skip counting to 100 with our counting by 5’s worksheet.
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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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Math Mazes – Making Ten
A set of mazes where students find missing addends to solve the maze.
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Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Maze - 'Rr'
A fun maze to use when learning how to identify uppercase and lowercase letters.
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Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Maze - 'Pp'
A fun maze to use when learning how to identify uppercase and lowercase letters.