
Help the Dolphin Find the Coral Reef — Level 3
Swim the dolphin to the coral reef: a 12 by 12 color maze for ages 4–5 whose 75-square route turns 55 times.
- Suitable for
- Ages 4–5
- Pages
- 1 page
- Level
- Challenging
- Printing
- Color printer
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What your child practices
- Keeps a line on course through constant changes of direction
- Stays calm when the route keeps doubling back
- Learns that coral reefs are built by tiny animals
About this worksheet
Fifty-five changes of direction across 75 squares: this route almost never runs straight, and that is what makes it hard rather than its length. A child who is comfortable on a long, open level 3 sheet can still come unstuck here.
Coral reefs look like rock but are built by tiny animals called coral polyps, and they shelter a huge number of fish. Dolphins find their way partly by echolocation, clicking and listening for the echoes. Ask your child how a dolphin might hear a dead end before swimming into it. This route almost never runs straight, which is what makes it hard.
There is exactly one way through: no loops, and no square cut off from the rest.
How to use this sheet
Make a clicking sound at every turn as the finger moves, like a dolphin checking its way; there are a lot of clicks on this one. Take the pencil stage slowly, because with so many corners, short strokes work better than long ones.