Help the Chick Find the Mother Hen — Level 2

The gentlest sheet at level 2, and the one to start with. Nine dead ends is fewer than any other page on this grid, so a child stepping up from an 8 by 8 maze meets the longer route without also meeting more false turnings than before. Only one thing gets harder at a time.

Ten cells across puts the corridors a little over one and a half centimeters wide. Still wide enough for a pencil held in a whole-hand grip, but narrow enough that staying inside the lines is now part of the task rather than a given.

The way through runs 47 squares and turns 31 times, with 9 dead ends branching off it. The grid is carved so that exactly one route connects the start to the finish: no loops, no second way round, and no corner walled off from the rest. Every square can be reached, and a child who follows the route carefully will always get there.