
Help the Dinosaur Find the Egg — Level 3
A 12 by 12 color maze for ages 4–5 — 79 squares from the dinosaur to the egg, along the only route through.
- Suitable for
- Ages 4–5
- Pages
- 1 page
- Level
- Challenging
- Printing
- Color printer
Free, no sign-up. A4 · Print at 100% scale
What your child practices
- Plans a route before committing a pencil to it
- Recognizes a dead end and backs out of it
- Holds concentration through a long, multi-step task
- Keeps a drawn line inside a boundary
About this worksheet
This route changes direction 58 times, more often than any other maze in the series. Seventy-nine squares, and very nearly every one of them a corner. Worth warning a child before they start that the way through is never going to run straight for long.
Twelve cells across brings the corridors down to about one and a third centimeters. At that width the pencil work is genuinely part of the difficulty, so these sheets suit a child who has already stopped needing to rest their whole hand on the page to draw a straight line.
The way through runs 79 squares and turns 58 times, with 16 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.
How to use this sheet
Trace the route with a finger first, then go over it with a pencil. Separating the thinking from the pencil work means neither one spoils the other.