Thanksgiving week is busy, and a maze is one of the easiest ways to get a child sitting calmly with a pencil. Here you’ll find eleven mazes that start very gentle and slowly get harder, so the same page of links works for a 3 year old and for the big cousin who says mazes are too easy.
The first pages have wide, winding roads with no dead ends at all. The last ones are proper challenge mazes. In between there is a picture maze, a letter maze and a number maze. Everything is black and white with thin lines, so it prints light, and each page has a US Letter and an A4 PDF. There is also an answer key page.
Free Thanksgiving Maze Worksheets (PDF)
Easy paths with no dead ends (ages 3 to 4)
A wide, winding road with no dead ends. Perfect for a first maze.
Another wide path with no dead ends, this one ends at a pumpkin pie.
A longer wide trail from an acorn to a leaf pile. Still no dead ends.
Picture maze: follow the turkeys
Move from turkey to turkey, up, down, left or right, to get to the bottom.
Classic mazes, from easy to hard
A small beginner maze with thick walls and a few dead ends.
A medium maze through a cornfield, from the corn to the turkey.
A bigger maze with more turns, from the pumpkin patch to the pie.
A tricky maze with lots of small dead ends.
The challenge maze. Small cells and many dead ends, for older kids and families.
Letter maze and number maze
Follow the alphabet in order, A to T, moving up, down, left or right.
Follow the numbers in order, 1 to 15, through a grid of numbers.
Answer key
Solutions for every maze, with the way shown by a gray line.
Which maze should we start with?
- Age 3 to 4: the three wide-path mazes. Let your child draw with a thick crayon, since the road is wide enough for it.
- Age 4 to 5: Follow the Turkeys, Turkey Feather and Cornfield.
- Age 5 to 7: Pumpkin Patch, Cornucopia, and the Letter and Number mazes.
- Older kids and grown-ups: the Thanksgiving Dinner Maze is the challenge page.
What do mazes help with?
Mazes train the small muscles of the hand and the eyes together, because the pencil has to stay inside the lines while the eyes look ahead. They also build planning: a child has to think “if I go this way, will I get stuck?” The letter and number mazes add ABC order and counting order on top of that.
Frequently asked questions
What age are these mazes for?
Roughly ages 3 to 8. The wide-path mazes suit 3 and 4 year olds. The harder mazes suit older children, and the dinner maze is meant for older kids and adults.
Is there an answer key?
Yes. The last page shows the solution to every maze with a gray line, so you can check an answer without having to solve it yourself.
Which size should I download?
US Letter if you’re in the US or Canada, A4 almost everywhere else. Print at 100% / actual size.
Are they free?
Yes, for home and classroom use. Please don’t sell or re-host the PDFs.
