
Help the Elephant Find the Water Hole — Level 3
Walk the elephant to the water hole: a 12 by 12 color maze for ages 4–5 with an 83-square route and 17 dead ends.
- 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
- Keeps going after many wrong turns on a long route
- Uses memory to avoid paths already tried
- Learns how elephants find water and keep cool
About this worksheet
The biggest animal in the catalogue with one of the longest walks in it — 83 squares to reach water. Seventeen dead ends is a lot to back out of on a route that length, so this is a sheet for a child who has stopped minding being wrong.
Elephants drink a huge amount of water every day and will walk long distances to find it, remembering where the water holes are from year to year. They also spray water and dust over their backs to keep cool. A long walk suits this animal, and the dead ends suit a child who has stopped minding a wrong turn.
There is exactly one way through: no loops, and no square cut off from the rest.
How to use this sheet
Elephants remember where the water is, so ask your child to remember the dead ends instead of marking them. If that gets hard, switch to marking them with dots. Draw the route in blue once the water hole is reached.