Six bonus mazes, not in the book
Six mazes drawn with the same generator as the book, at the book's five levels: one path with no choices, one dead end, two or three dead ends top to bottom, a six by six, an eight by eight, and a nine by nine. None of them is a page of the book. Each has the book's marks key, the tick-box line the child checks, and three notes for the grown-up beside them.
US Letter · 6 pages · black and white · no signup
What is on the sheets
Print at actual size (100%), not "fit to page". The target sizes on these pages are chosen for a particular age of hand, and scaling shrinks them.
Using them well
Start where the child is
Sheet 1 is a single corridor and sheet 6 has a dozen dead ends. A child who is new to mazes does the first two; a child who has finished the book does the last two.
Finger first
Trace the path with a finger before the pencil goes down. The corridor widths are the book's, so they are sized for the hand at each level.
Read the notes
The three lines under each maze say what the level asks of the child, one thing to say out loud, and one thing to do away from the page.
Questions
What is bonus material?
Sheets made for this site with the tools that made the book, and not printed in it. They carry the Light Minds Lab mark and this address instead of a page number, because they belong to no book.
Are these mazes in the book?
No. The book has 100 mazes and these are six more, generated from seeds the book does not use, with start and end pictures the book does not pair.
What age are they for?
Three to five, like the book. The first sheet suits a three-year-old holding a pencil for the first time; the last two are for a five-year-old who wants the hard ones.
Do I need to sign up or pay?
No. One PDF, six pages, no email address. Print at 100 percent rather than fit to page, because the corridor widths are sized for the hand.
Guides that go with these
Mazes by age: what a 3, 4, 5 and 6-year-old can do
A maze is three separate skills stacked on top of each other, and children pick them up years apart. Here is which maze belongs to which age.
Fine motorPencil grasp by age, and what helps
Grasp develops on its own schedule. What you can change is what the hand gets to practice, and the size of what you ask it to do.
Choosing a bookWhich activity book for which age: 3, 4, 5 and 6
The maze book lists from three. The other three list from four. Here is what sits inside those ranges: the book for each age, the page to open it at, and the sign that says move up.
For grown-upsHow to sit beside a child doing a worksheet
The most challenging part of an activity book is not on the page. It is sitting there while a four-year-old gets it wrong.
How we make themWhy our activity books are printed in black and white
The research behind it, the one finding that argues against it, and what the child gets in return.
Where these came from
These 6 are not in the book.
One maze per page, from a single wide channel a three-year-old can finish to an 11×11 grid with real dead ends. The difficulty climbs across this book. Maze 1 is a wide corridor with no branches. Maze 100 is an 11×11 grid, 121 cells, with no help in any of them. Every step in between is a page.
