Alphabet Maze
Letter maze · 8 × 10 · Easy
Go through the alphabet from A to Z, from START to FINISH. Move up, down, left or right, and never use a square twice.
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Alphabet mazes, A to Z
Find A, then B, then C, all the way to Z, through a grid of letters.
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Alphabet Maze, Answer Key
Letter maze · 8 × 10 · Easy
Go through the alphabet from A to Z, from START to FINISH. Move up, down, left or right, and never use a square twice.
Created for free at puzzleandprint.com
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Four mazes, each a two-page PDF: the maze, then the answer key with the path drawn in, on its own page.
Alphabet maze, capitalsA to Z · 8 × 10 · EasyDownload PDF ↓
Alphabet maze, lowercasea to z · 8 × 10 · EasyDownload PDF ↓
Alphabet maze, mediumA to Z · 10 × 12 · MediumDownload PDF ↓
Alphabet maze, hardA to Z · 12 × 15 · HardDownload PDF ↓Every sheet here is free to print as often as you like. If one saved you time, the tip jar is on Ko-fi.
An alphabet maze is letter order made into a path. A sits on the START square in the top left corner, and the route steps to a touching square holding B, then C, and on through the alphabet to Z at FINISH. A child who knows the song but not yet the order on paper finds out quickly where it breaks down, because the next letter has to be found, not recited.
Capitals and Lowercase are both 8 by 10 grids with the alphabet once, along a 26 square route, at easy: no square beside the route holds the letter the route needs next, so there is never a wrong turn, only a search. Lowercase is the same idea in small letters, which is where b and d, p and q get muddled.
Medium runs the alphabet twice along a 52 square route on 10 by 12, and Hard three times along 78 squares on 12 by 15. Both add false trails that start the next letters and stop, so a child who grabs the first M in sight can follow N and O into a dead end. Every grid was checked for exactly one route, and the answer keys show it shaded in gray.
Where the alphabet mazes lead children astray
Capitals and Lowercase have no wrong turns: no square beside the route holds the letter it needs next. Medium has 5 such squares beside its 52 square route, and four false trails that carry on through the next few letters and stop. Hard has 13 beside a 78 square route, with eleven false trails.
On the medium and hard sheets the decoys are letters of the alphabet like everything else, so a child cannot rule a square out by its look alone; only the order tells. That makes the second and third times through the alphabet harder than the first, because by then the grid is busy.
Capital letters or lowercase first
Most children meet capitals first, and the Capitals sheet is the place to start. The Lowercase sheet is the same puzzle in small letters and the better practice for reading, since books are mostly lowercase and the letters that cause trouble, b and d, p and q, n and u, only exist in lowercase.
The maker prints any letter maze in lowercase with one setting, Letters, and the alphabet in particular at any of four grid sizes. A preschooler can start on 6 by 8, where the alphabet runs once from the corner.
Common questions
Does the alphabet maze go from A to Z only once?
On the Capitals and Lowercase sheets, yes: one 26 square route from A on START to Z on FINISH. The Medium sheet runs the alphabet twice and the Hard sheet three times, starting again at A after each Z.
What makes the easy alphabet mazes easy if every letter is used?
The alphabet uses all 26 letters, so the other squares cannot avoid them. Instead, no square beside the route holds the letter the route needs next, so from any square on the way there is exactly one place to go.
Want to know when new printables go up?
New printables when they go up, mostly seasonal, a few times a year.