🌱 10 × 10 · Easy
Easy Small Printable Mazes
30 free easy 10 × 10 mazes for young children and anyone who wants a relaxed maze. A short route with few dead ends.
Easy mazes are carved with the recursive backtracker, which makes long, gentle corridors and few dead ends. We then pick the shortest way from the entrance to the exit and reject any maze whose route is much longer than the width of the grid.
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Puzzle guide
About easy small mazes
What they are
Easy small mazes are the gentlest puzzles on the site: a 10 × 10 grid, a short route and only a handful of dead ends. They are carved with long, smooth corridors, so a child can often follow the right path almost without stopping.
Tips
Let little ones trace with a finger before picking up a crayon. Talk through each turn together: 'Can we go up here? No, it is closed, so let's try the other way.' That running commentary builds early problem-solving language.
Who they suit
These mazes are ideal for children aged three to five, preschool and kindergarten classrooms, and anyone practising pencil grip. They also make a soothing first activity for a child who finds bigger puzzles frustrating.
Printing
Turn on the Kids version and print one maze per page for the widest corridors and big Start and Finish pictures. Laminate a few and use a dry-wipe pen to solve them again and again.
Finished the maze?
Try a easy riddle
Mazes and riddles both reward patience and spotting the way through. Here are a few easy riddles with answers.