Mazes for Kids: Follow Each Vehicle's Path

About Mazes for Kids

These mazes for kids don't hide a single path between walls, but a tangle of colored lines that cross again and again. At the top there are several vehicles, like a plane, a tractor, a car or a motorbike, and each one has its own line. The challenge is to follow it with your eyes, without getting lost at the crossings, until you find out which box it ends in. If the little ones get hooked, our collection of maze games has many more routes to practice.

It's a maze game for kids that's very visual for little ones: there's no time limit and no text to read, so each child goes at their own pace and the reward comes as soon as they put the picture in place.

How do you play Mazes for Kids?

Each line connects a vehicle at the top with a box at the bottom. Some boxes already show the picture and others are empty, waiting for someone to bring the right vehicle there.

1. Choose one of the vehicles at the top.
2. Follow its line with your eyes (or with your finger on the screen) through all the crossings.
3. When you reach the end, drag the picture to the empty box where its path ends.
4. Repeat with the rest of the vehicles until the board is complete.

Mazes for Kids controls

PC

• Click and drag with the mouse: move the vehicle to its destination

Mobile and tablet

• Tap and slide your finger: take the picture to its box

What do you learn in Mazes for Kids?

• Visual tracking: keeping your eyes on a specific line even when there are others around it, a key skill for learning to read later on.
• Attention and concentration sustained throughout the whole route.
• Figure-ground discrimination: separating one line from the rest of the lines and from the background drawing.
• Fine motor skills when dragging and dropping the picture precisely.
• Transport vocabulary: plane, tractor, car, motorbike… perfect for naming them out loud.

Recommended for ages 3 and up, so it works really well as a maze for kids aged 3 to 5 and as attention practice in the first years of primary school.

Tips for playing better: Mazes for Kids

• Put your finger or the cursor on the starting point and move slowly: at each crossing, the right line is the one that keeps going straight in the same direction, not the one that turns.
• If you get lost, try it backwards: start from the empty box at the bottom and go up the line until you see which vehicle appears.
• Solve the lines that already have their picture at the bottom first; they act as clues and rule out paths.
• Parents and teachers: ask the child to say out loud where each vehicle is going before dragging it. That way they also work on anticipation and language.

Mazes for Kids FAQ

Additional information: Mazes for Kids

Game type: Educational visual maze, path following
Recommended age: From age 3
Technology: HTML5
Platform: Web browser (PC, tablet and mobile)

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