Easy Maze: A First Little Labyrinth

This is the gentlest maze in the series: a small seven-by-eight grid, wide corridors, and a short path between start and finish. A piece of fruit waits at the top as the starting picture, its partner sits at the goal below, and the child draws one line through the little labyrinth to bring them together. Small grid, quick win — a first maze that ends in success rather than frustration.

First mazes have one job: to convince a child that mazes are solvable. A small grid means fewer decision points, so the whole route can almost be seen at a glance, and the pencil reaches the fruit before patience runs out. That early success matters more than the challenge, because it buys the willingness to attempt the harder grids later. Even at this size the real skills are working — looking ahead before drawing, holding a direction in mind, steering between walls without touching them — just in a dose sized kindly for a beginner's attention span.

Print it free as a PDF, and print two — the second run is always smoother, and children love proving it. When this size feels easy twice in a row, the hard maze with its bigger grid is ready and waiting, and the giant maze after that.