Help the Turkey Find the Corn Maze

About this worksheet

An 8 by 9 maze for preschool and kindergarten: lead the hungry turkey at the top through wide paths to the two ears of corn at the bottom. Enough turns to feel like a real maze, few enough dead ends to finish without tears. Color the turkey and the corn when you are done; the solution is drawn in red on page 2. Easy puzzles build confidence before moving to bigger grids. Trace the correct path with a highlighter once you solve it.

This maze by the numbers

On this 8 x 9 grid the only correct path runs through 30 of the 72 squares (about 42%) and turns 23 times between START and FINISH. It has 9 dead ends where a wrong turn stops, and most kids at this level finish it in about 2 minutes. Bonus challenge: after you reach FINISH, color the 30 squares of the right path in one color, then hunt down all 9 dead ends and mark each one with an X. If you count fewer than 9, keep looking!

Tips for using it

• Color the start and finish arrows in green and red.
• Pull a three-page packet per child for the short school week: one math page, one word puzzle and one gratitude page at their level.
• Print the answer keys (page 2) once and clip them to a folder so early finishers can check their own work.
• For a mixed-age family table, give every child the same activity at a different level: the picture word search for the five-year-old, the dinner table word search for the nine-year-old.

Printing tips

Download the PDF and print at 100% (or “fit to page” on A4). Page 1 is the worksheet and page 2 is the answer key with the answers in red; print just page 1 if you want to keep the answers for checking. Free for personal, family and classroom use.