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Animal Maze Adventure: Help the Animals Find Their Food!

This worksheet helps children ages 3-5 develop problem-solving skills and visual discrimination by guiding different animals through mazes to reach their favorite food, requiring them to scan ahead and choose the correct path before committing to a route. Matching each animal to a food that makes sense for it also builds early general knowledge about what different animals eat.

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Month 2: Learning & Development | Ages 5-6

This is page 28 of the pack. Ages 5-6 · KindergartenAges 5-6 · Year 1Ages 5-6 · UKGAges 5-6

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About this worksheet

Topic:
Animals
Skill:
Animals & Habitats (Living Things - Animals): Learn about animals, homes, food, and characteristics.
Pack:
Page 28 of 28 in Month 2: Learning & Development | Ages 5-6.

How to use this worksheet

Point out the starting animal and its food goal at the end of the maze, and talk about why that food makes sense for that animal. Have your child use their finger first to trace a possible path through the maze without a pencil, backtracking if they hit a dead end. Once they've found a route with their finger, hand them a pencil or crayon to trace the correct path from the animal to its food. Repeat with each remaining animal and maze on the page.

Materials needed

  • Pencil
  • Crayons

Extension activities

  • Create your own simple maze on paper for a friend or sibling to solve.
  • Draw the animals enjoying their food once they've reached the end of each maze.
  • Color the animals and their food, talking about what other foods each animal might also eat.
  • Build a simple maze out of blocks or string on the floor for a toy animal to travel through.
Hemsweta Jain (Teacher Cheena), founder of RaisoActive

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Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena

MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai

Every RaisoActive worksheet is designed and checked by the founder before publishing.

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