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Help the Astronaut Find the Rocket — Level 1

Help the astronaut back to the rocket: an 8 by 8 color maze for ages 3–5, with a single 27-square route and 9 dead ends.

Suitable for
Ages 3–5
Pages
1 page
Level
Easy
Printing
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What your child practices

  • Follows one unbroken route from the astronaut to the rocket
  • Backs out of a dead end without starting the whole maze again
  • Uses space words like helmet, rocket and launch while telling the story

About this worksheet

The one sheet in this set with a person on it rather than an animal, and the only one where the goal is somewhere to go rather than something to eat. That gives it a story a child can narrate while they work: the astronaut is trying to get back to the ship. For a child who drifts off a silent puzzle, having something to say about it is often what keeps them at the page.

Space gives a child plenty to talk about while the finger moves. Ask what the astronaut can see through the helmet, where the rocket might fly next, and why nobody takes the helmet off outside the ship. Real astronauts rehearse a trip many times on the ground before they fly it, which is a handy way to explain why the route gets tried with a finger before the pencil comes out.

There is exactly one way through: no loops, and no square cut off from the rest.

How to use this sheet

Point to the astronaut, then the rocket, so both ends are fixed before the search starts. Run a finger along the way first, and when it hits a dead end, count down from three and send it back to the last fork. Then draw the route in one color.

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