Maze of the Week #216 - Mount Rushmore

When I created this maze I knew this was the perfect day to launch it (President’s Day in the USA) . Maze of the Week #216 features Mount Rushmore located in Keystone, South Dakota, USA. It was carved/built/chiseled between 1927 and 1941 when funding dried up (WW2). Luckily the President’s 4 faces were completed between 1934 and 1939. We can thank Gutzon Borglum and his son for the work.

Read about the site on wikipedia or watch this video (I love a good list video):

The maze: I have trouble drawing faces, but these turned out better than I had hoped. The shadows really help shape the faces. The rock crevices made good natural walls for a maze to use.

Mount Rushmore Maze

Download is available on the home page. Happy Maze-ing !

I have previously celebrated President’s with mazes:

Abraham Lincoln seems to be my most popular person to make mazes of.

Other blog posts you may enjoy:

The 10 best places to find free printable mazes

One of the larger searches made for mazes is “free printable mazes for kids”. Knowing this, and having a maze website myself I wanted to see what was available, assess the competition and see what was offered. By doing this I hope to be able to improve what mazes I offer for download, and since I am evaluating the sites anyway I thought I would write a post summarizing them for you. I updated this in early 2026 and found out the former #1 website was sold and now is a deals site ( no mazes ) that seems pretty spammy.

The 10 best websites where you can find free printable mazes:

I have placed the websites in order of the number of downloadable mazes available:

  • Krazy Dad - A site dedicated to printables of puzzles and games like Sudoku, Suguro, Kakuro and Bridges. Personally I am a big fan of the Train Tracks puzzles. If you like math type puzzles this is the site for you. The most popular puzzles are available to play online so you don’t have to print ! But we are here to discuss the maze portion of the website. What I really like about the site is that the mazes are split into 5 sections by age group: Easy (Ages 4-6), Intermediate (Ages 6-8), Challenging (Ages 7-9), Tough Mazes (Ages 9-12+) and Super Tough (all Ages). Each group has a list of 50 books available for download, 250 books in total ! Files are pdfs and answers are available on the website if you get stuck ! Obviously I did not download every book, but they appear to be 20 pages each and full of “shape'“ mazes of many different types. This means there are 1000 mazes per level available! There is a 2 dinosaur maze sections - 12 mazes per/50sections= 1,200 mazes, and a section of 1,000 assorted animal mazes. If I have the math right that means you get 7,200 mazes!


  • Do You Maze - This website. I have 35 free themed downloadable maze books that were revised in 2026 so that they are mostly in black and white (better for printing) and contain 1,253 different mazes (plus there are 23 Spanish language books/mazes featuring 733 mazes). I also added a free printable maze section to the site which groups mazes by category. This section has over 1,100 more mazes, not including the name maze section. Total mazes: over 3,000. As far as what I specialize in, that would be maze art. Mazes for adults of medium to hard difficulty that you would feel good hanging on your wall as artwork. But many of them need to be printed on very large pieces of paper. All mazes are pdfs and have downloadable solutions. Check out the home page for the best mazes and the links to download. There are 100+ more mazes available. Here are some maze art examples:


  • Printable Mazes - Features their 1 most popular mazes on the site. At the time of this writing has 580 mazes available for download for free, or you can pay $9.00 for one of 5 different themed books of 250 mazes. Mazes range from pictures of animals/objects for young children to difficult mazes in a variety of shapes. The landing page also features the 15 most popular mazes to give you a great idea of what is offered/popular !

  • Muse Printables - A really fun site that features printable borders, coloring pages, signs, and writing templates on their home page. But they have even more items available including their maze printables. At the time of this writing they have 466 different mazes available in 23 different categories, including Animals, Christmas, Food and Sport mazes. They mazes are targeted to children and are easy to solve. Mazes are pdf format and the solutions are available.

  • Mazes 4 Kids: This landing page does not actually show the mazes, but has a list of 12 books availabel for download. Each book contains 24 mazes. You can choose from 4 easy books, 4 medium, and 4 hard. The books feature a mix of simple shape mazes and include answer keys. Total mazes: 288.

  • Superstar Worksheets - A site for teachers with free downloads of many kinds. The Maze section features themed mazes for kids, including Holiday Mazes (Thanksgiving 9, Christmas 15, Easter 12, Patriotic 5, St Patrick’s Day 9, Valentine’s Day 9, Groundhog’s Day 5, New Year’s Day 5), Seasonal Mazes (Winter 13, Spring 4, Summer 4, Fall 9) Alphabet (Letters 26, Handwriting 9), Numbers (11), US State mazes (50), Multiplication Mazes (6), Morning Work Mazes (10). Most interesting to me were the multiplication mazes where students solve a math problem which tells them which pathway they need to take in the maze. They also have a 216 page book called Maze Writer available that mixes mazes with a daily handwriting improvement program. Total mazes (non-book) is approximately 211 (some mazes are duplicated in different sections).


  • All Kids Network - This website features mazes in 3 difficulty levels, easy (15), medium (63) and hard (5). They are aimed at children with themes that includes animals, characters and food. a typical maze is :”help person/animal find the thing”. There is also a section of 8 Halloween themed mazes. Total mazes: 91.

  • My Home School Math - Printables for preschool through grade school children. Has a large menu where you can find just about everything you could think of. The maze section with mazes labeled easy to hard. Each maze has a theme like get the bird back to it’s nest, the horse to the barn, or the bear to the honey, etc. Each maze is in color and downloads as a pdf. Solutions are not given. I like that they have some weaving mazes included, one of my favorite types of mazes ! Total mazes: 65.

  • Just Family Fun - This website features all types of printables and games for kids. The mazes section features 50 mazes that are available as pdf downloads one at a time. They feature themes like Help Santa Find His Bag, Help the Bee Find his Honey. They are all in color and come in a variety of shapes and difficulties. Total mazes: 50.

  • Math is Fun - It should not surprise you that this site is dedicated to mathematics and appears to be targeted at kids (and their teachers). The index is very helpfully broken into 4 age groups so you are looking for the right level of activities for your kids. The maze section of the site contains 19 different options of mazes to choose from. The mazes can be solved by using your arrow keys or by clicking and dragging with a mouse, or by hitting the print button and using the writing utensil of your choice on paper. Because these were made digitally they are in color and look very cool and artsy. The site also features non-printable maze games like this 3D maze run and this rolling ball maze which I find addictive ! Total mazes: 19.


Honorable mention: all of these sites have mazes available. I have learned that some sites are here today, gone tomorrow, while others are creating new content. Always like to discover new sites !

Kiddo Worksheets: 24 easy kids mazes.

Printable Paradise - The website features dozens of different printables, including mazes. The maze section features 9 different mazes, each downloadable as pdf’s with each also including the solution.

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Christmas Mazes for Kids

How to Draw a Maze (over different 40 types)

Dinosaur Mazes

Laberintos de Juego de Palabras - La colección Laberinto Autológico

Introducción de laberintos autológicos. Hay docenas de estos laberintos en inglés, ahora he añadido los 10 mejores im españoles.

Mis 10 Laberintos Autológicos de Palabras

Me gusta mucho este Laberinto de Globos que parece una colección de globos multicolores. En realidad son 6 laberintos de letras individuales diferentes.

laberinto de Globos

laberinto de Globos

Y me divertí haciendo este Laberinto Roto.

laberinto de rotos

laberinto de rotos

Y este laberinto lleno de gente probablemente se inspiró mientras yo iba en el metro una mañana de camino al trabajo. Se siente lleno para mí.

laberinto de lleno

laberinto de lleno

Este Laberinto de Desaparición no es tan fácil de resolver porque cada letra de hecho desaparece.

laberinto de desaparecer

laberinto de desaparecer

Me gustaba hacer este Laberinto derretirse. Incluso hice un poco más y derretido las flechas ! Si soy sincero, ¡escribir la palabra inglesa melt fue mucho más fácil!

laberinto derretirse

laberinto derretirse

Cartas sesgadas ayudan a dar la forma de laberinto de montaña, y a todo el mundo le gusta que los alpinistas que trabajan su camino a la cima !

laberinto de montaña

laberinto de montaña

Me divertí con este Laberinto de Cohete, girando la "E" para hacer una bonita nariz de cohete y usando una C en mayúsculas para la base. Tengo una sección con más de 40 laberintos de vehículos disponibles si quieres echarles un vistazo.

Laberinto de Cohete,

Laberinto de Cohete,

Posiblemente mi laberinto autológico favorito es este laberinto de sombra que recibe un poco de ayuda del Sol.

laberinto de sombra

laberinto de sombra

Tuve un poco de problemas para hacer el Laberinto Partirse, pero finalmente lo descubrí.

Laberinto Partirse

Laberinto Partirse

Y por qué no terminar con este laberinto inacabado que es apropiadamente inacabado (pero todavía solucionable) !

INACABADO laberinto

Word Play Mazes - The Autological Maze Collection

I have always liked word play games. I have also always liked making mazes. SO I ended up combining the two for a Maze Collection on the website. Honestly, the maze portion of the word play is secondary to the word play. But still we have a nice section of mazes that I enjoyed making. Lots of Autological interpretations of words. So a word that looks like what it is (plus a maze). I have over 100 on the site in the word play maze collection, so let’s just look at a few of my favorites !!!

My Top 10 Autological Word Mazes

I really like this Balloons Maze which looks like a collection of multi-colored balloons. It is actually 8 different individual letter mazes that I had made for name mazes (I have over 2000 name mazes on the site).

Balloons Autological Maze

Balloons Maze

And I had fun making this Broken Maze. At first I had trouble with the E and the N, but once I figured it out I really like how this came out !

Broken Autological Maze

Broken Maze

And this Crowded Maze probably was inspired while I was riding the subway one morning on the way to work. It feels crowded to me. Every time I read crowded subway I feel the dread of the ride I experienced so many times..

Crowded Autological Maze

crowded maze

This Disappear Maze is not so easy to solve because each letter does indeed disappear. This maze also has a close relative called the Fade Maze you can find on the site.

Disappear Autological Maze

disappear maze

I liked making this Melt Maze. I even did a bit extra and melted the arrows ! This maze also has a close relative on the site, the Mud Maze. I melted only the outside of the letters and not the internal pathways since that would have ruined the maze.

Melt Autological Maze

I think this maze gets the most downloads in the word maze section on the site. Skewed letters help give the Mountain Maze shape, and everyone likes the mountain climbers working their way to the peak ! I considered a Cable Car for the tourists…but simpler is better in this case.

Mountain Autological Maze

Mountain Maze

I had fun with this Rocket Maze, rotating the “T” to make a nice rocket nose and using a uppercase R for the base. One of my favorite recent mazes is the Space Shuttle Maze you can find in my vehicle maze section.

Rocket Autological Maze

Rocket Maze

Possibly my favorite Autological Maze is this Shadow Maze which gets a bit of help from the Sun.

Shadow Autological Maze

Shadow Maze

Like the Broken Maze above, I had a bit of trouble making the Split Maze, but eventually figured it out. It was the one of the first mazes on the site with 1 start and 2 possible goals (now there are a few more).

Split Autological Maze

Split Maze

And why not end with this Unfinished Maze which is appropriately unfinished (but still solvable) ! The thing about leaving a maze unfinished is

Unfinished Autological Maze

So those are my Top 10 Autological Word Mazes. You can find many more on the site and if you have an idea you think would make a good addition, send me a request !

Want to see these and similar phrases pero en espanol ? Lo tengo !