Maze Puzzles Printable Free (2 Easy Mazes for Kids)
Mazes are the print-and-go quiet activity: one page, one pencil, no setup. Below are 2 free mazes for kids, an 8x8 marked easy and a 10x10 marked medium. Each grid came out of a generator and then went through a path-checker that walks every route, so exactly one way leads from the start arrow to the finish arrow. Wrong turns end at walls, never at a trick gap in the border. Print at 100% scale, and open the hidden answers when somebody gets stuck. If the two mazes disappear in ten minutes flat, the 30-puzzle detective logic book linked at the bottom is the next step.
How to solve these mazes (4 steps):
1. Find the entrance: the gap in the border at the top-left corner, above the start arrow.
2. Move cell to cell through openings. Up, down, left, or right. Diagonal jumps are not allowed.
3. A drawn line is a wall. Every wrong turn ends at a wall or back at a cell you already passed through.
4. Finish at the bottom-right corner, where the border opens below the finish arrow. Stuck? Read tip 2 below.
2 printable mazes, easy to medium
They get harder down the page: the second grid is bigger and it branches more, so more decisions before a wrong guess gets punished. Answers stay hidden so nobody sees them by accident, and they stay off the printed page too.
Maze 1 - 8x8 grid
Easy
26 steps from start to finish. Ages 5 to 8, or a first maze for anybody. Big cells, short route, about three minutes.
Maze 2 - 10x10 grid
Medium
38 steps from start to finish. Ages 7 to 10, or a kid who cleared maze 1 and wants the longer one. Same rules, more branches to try.
Show the solution paths
Maze 1 (8x8), 26 steps:
Maze 2 (10x10), 38 steps:
Each maze has exactly one path: the generator builds a tree of connected cells with no loops, and a checker walks the grid to confirm a single route runs start to finish. The solution drawing traces that route.
4 tips for printing mazes for kids
Opinions from watching kids work through pages like these, not a teaching study:
(Opinion.) Print two copies of each maze. Copy one is for finger-tracing, copy two is for pencil. A kid who knows a retry is free commits to a turn faster, and the finger pass teaches the route before the pencil locks it in.
(Opinion.) Teach backwards solving early. Start at the finish arrow and work up. It is the same single path, and it splits the problem: fewer branches lead away from the finish than away from the start on most grids. It also gives a stuck kid somewhere to go instead of erasing.
(Opinion.) Skip the timer. Speed turns a puzzle into a test, and some kids quietly stop picking up puzzles after one timed round. If you want a scoreboard, count mazes finished, not seconds.
(Opinion.) Solve the 10x10 next to them, not for them. Getting stuck in the same corner at the same time is real coaching: "I would go this way, but look, wall. Where else?" Pointing at the answer teaches nothing; getting unstuck together teaches the whole skill.
More puzzles: Case Files, 30 detective logic puzzles
After the mazes, the natural next step on this site is the puzzle book our team publishes, Case Files: Quick Cases. Thirty case files, five kinds of detective work (logic grids, coded notes, witness matches, timelines, two final cases), full answer keys at the back. From the book's own README:
"A printable puzzle book from the Grayharbor Detective Agency night desk. Thirty case files, five kinds of detective work, full answer keys at the back. Pick your paper size, print, sharpen a pencil. No app, no login, no subscription."
"Every case has exactly one answer. The puzzles were generated solution-first: the answer was fixed, then clues were chosen and checked by a solver so the printed statements allow only that one solution."
"Print at 100% / 'Actual size'. The files already carry the right page size, so don't scale-to-fit." and "every page is designed for black and white. A color printer changes nothing."