
Help the Owl Find the Tree Hollow — Level 3
Guide the owl to its tree hollow: a 12 by 12 color maze for ages 4–5, the gentlest at level 3 with 43 turns and 13 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
- Moves up to a 12 by 12 grid on the gentlest sheet
- Follows a long route with few wrong turns
- Learns how owls use their hearing to hunt at night
About this worksheet
The way into level 3. This has both the fewest turns and the fewest dead ends of any 12 by 12 sheet in the series, which makes it the one to print first when a child moves up a grid size. Still 75 squares, so it is not a short page — just an honest one.
Many owls nest in hollows inside old trees, and they hunt at night using sharp hearing as much as their eyes. An owl can turn its head much further around than a person can. This is the maze to print first when a child moves up to level 3: still a long route, but with fewer turns and dead ends than any other 12 by 12 sheet.
There is exactly one way through: no loops, and no square cut off from the rest.
How to use this sheet
Start level 3 here. Remind your child that the corridors are narrower again, about one and a third centimeters, so pencil control matters. Turning the head like an owl to look at the maze from a new angle is allowed.