Help the Monkey Find the Banana — Level 1

Monkey, banana: a pairing that needs no setting up, which is exactly what you want when the maze is meant to be the whole of the work. Nothing in the picture has to be interpreted, so all the effort goes into the route. At 29 squares with only 7 dead ends, this is a long walk down a mostly honest path.

This is a level 1 maze: 8 cells across, with corridors a shade under two centimeters wide. That is roomy enough that a five year old's pencil control is never the thing holding them up, so the page is purely about finding the way.

The way through runs 29 squares and turns 14 times, with 7 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.