Circular Mazes for Kids: How to Start (Printable Sample)

A circular maze for kids is a good idea in a classroom or at home, because a round maze looks different from the usual square one. This page is honest about what LogikLand makes for children, shows the easiest circular mazes it can produce, gives a printable sample of four of them, and says when a square maze is the better first step.

What LogikLand offers for children

There are two separate assistants. The Circular Mazes assistant makes round mazes in four levels, from 8 to 20 rings. It is not divided by age and it does not add characters or pictures. The Kids Maze assistant makes square mazes by age (4-6, 6-8 and 8-10), with a character at the entrance and an object at the exit. It can also draw a maze inside a circle outline, but that is a square-grid maze cut into a round shape, not a circular maze with rings.

So the honest answer is that a circular maze for a child means the easy level of the Circular Mazes assistant, used with some help.

The easy level in numbers

The easy circular maze has fewer cells than the largest kids square maze, but cells are not the whole story: the walls are curved, the corridors wrap around the ring, and the correct path goes outward as well as inward. Over 300 easy mazes, the path was 73 cells long on average, about 39 percent of the cells. Our suggestion, not a rule: treat the easy circular maze as a puzzle for older children, or for younger ones with an adult beside them.

Two sample mazes

The PDF has four easy mazes, two to a page, followed by the solutions on a separate page. Download the printable sample. Here are the first two.

Helping a child through the rings

• Trace with a finger first. Let the child follow a corridor with a fingertip before drawing. A finger stops at a wall, so a mistake costs nothing.
• Try the dot. Looking from the middle is often quicker. In sample maze 1 the dot has two openings: one leads to a dead-end pocket of 2 cells, the other to the rest of the maze. In sample maze 2 both openings lead into big regions, 94 and 92 cells, so only the route from the entrance tells them apart.
• Use two colors. One color for the dead ends, another for the way that works.
• Do not insist on going inward. In sample maze 1, 7 of the 48 moves go outward, and in sample maze 2, 10 of the 74. Tell the child before they start, so that going outward does not feel like a mistake.

Ways to use the pages

The sample asks for more than finding the way. These ideas are our suggestions, not rules of the puzzle:

• Give two children the same maze, one starting at the arrow and one at the dot, and see where their lines meet.
• After solving, count how many times the route crosses the thick outer circle or each ring.
• Ask which of the four mazes looks the hardest before solving, then check with the solutions page.
• Lay a sheet of tracing paper over the maze, draw the route on it, and compare it with the solutions page.

When a square maze is a better start

For children aged 4 to 6, a square maze of 7 by 7 cells, with a monkey at the entrance and a banana at the exit, is a gentler first step. The Kids Maze assistant has 30 pairs of such pictures and a story sentence on the page. You can read about the circular maze rules in circular maze rules, and the steps to solve one in how to solve a circular maze.

Making your own pages

Create a free account to open the Circular Mazes assistant, choose only the easy level, and set the number of mazes. In 8.5 x 11 inches you can put two on a page when the book has only easy or medium mazes, and in 6 x 9 inches there is one per page. For square mazes without a login, the free sample generator is on the maze book generator page. A pack of printable circular mazes is described in printable easy circular maze puzzles.

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