Christmas tree maze
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Christmas mazes to print
Six Christmas mazes, each built inside a holiday shape: a Christmas tree, a star, a bell, an ornament, a mitten and a stocking. Start at the dot and find the way to the star.
In these mazes the dot and the star are not at the edges. They sit at the two squares that are farthest apart along the corridors, so the route is the longest one the shape can hold. Solutions are on the last pages, and each maze can be solved on screen below.
Prints on US letter paper, one maze to a page: 6 pages, then the solutions (8 pages in all). Under every page is a button to print just that one. In the print window, choose your printer, or Save as PDF to keep a copy.
Star maze
Bell maze
Ornament maze
Mitten maze
Stocking maze
Maze solutions
Maze solutions
Solve a maze on screen
Drag from the dot along the corridors, or use the arrow keys or the buttons under the maze. A move runs on to the next turning. Go back over your trail to rub it out.
Which maze to start with
The shortest route is in the bell maze, at 160 steps, and the longest is in the ornament maze, at 283. The narrow parts of a shape, such as the points of the star or the thumb of the mitten, are where a route is easiest to follow, because there is only room for one or two corridors.
The corridors are about a fifth of an inch wide, so a pencil or a fine pen suits them better than a marker.
After the maze is solved
A finished maze makes a quick decoration. Trace the route in red or green, color the dead ends in a second color, and cut around the outline; the tree, star, bell and ornament hold their shape well as paper cutouts. Printing on card stock helps if your printer takes it.
How the shapes are drawn
Each outline is laid over a grid, and only the squares inside it are kept, which is why the edges step like a cross-stitch pattern. A program then tunnels through every kept square without ever making a loop, so there is one route and no square is sealed off.