Summer Maze Printables

A summer maze is a printable maze drawn in the shape of a summer picture, such as a sun, an ice cream cone, a watermelon slice, a sailboat, a fish or a turtle. This free tool makes one for you in your web browser, with no sign-up and nothing to install. Each puzzle is made on your own device, and nothing is uploaded.

The tool opens on a sun maze at Easy difficulty, one maze per page. You can change the shape, the difficulty and the print settings, then print the maze or save it as a PDF or image. Every maze has a seed, so you can share the exact puzzle or reprint it later and get the same result. The Summer shapes are a good fit for summer holidays, camps, rainy afternoons and end-of-school activities.

How to use the Summer Maze Generator

1. Click a shape button in the Summer group, next to the settings: sun, ice cream cone, watermelon, sailboat, fish or turtle. The maze fills that picture.
2. Pick a Difficulty from Very easy to Expert. Very easy is the simplest choice for young children.
3. Look at the Seed field. It identifies this exact puzzle. To get a different maze with the same settings, click New maze.
4. Open the Print tab. Set Mazes per page (1, 2, 4 or 6) and Number of pages (1 to 20).
5. Choose Paper size (US Letter or A4). Tick Add answer pages if you want a solution sheet after the puzzles.
6. Set Page layout to Worksheet if you want a name and date line and the instruction “Find the way from Start to Finish.”
7. Click Print / Save as PDF. In the browser print dialog, choose “Save as PDF” as the destination if you want a file.

For smaller children, turn on Kid-friendly under More options on the Design tab. It uses thicker walls and wider paths. Show solution draws the route in red on screen, and Download SVG or Download PNG saves the maze as an image. Click Copy link to share the exact sheet.

Which summer shapes are there?

This tool offers six summer shapes: sun, ice cream cone, watermelon slice, sailboat, fish and turtle. Sun, ice cream, watermelon and sailboat are drawn for this site, while fish and turtle are shared with the animal mazes.

The sun is a disc with eight rays, and the watermelon slice has seed holes in it. The outer wall of each maze follows the outline of its shape, and the Start and Finish sit on the outline at the two points that are farthest apart along the paths. Shape size matters too. At Very easy, the sun route is about 29 cells long, while the fish route is about 38 cells. These are averages from 20 generated mazes.

Are there easy summer mazes for preschoolers?

Yes. Choose Very easy difficulty and the Kid-friendly option for the simplest puzzles. Very easy makes a picture 16 cells across, and it adds a few extra passages so there is more than one way through.

The sun is the shortest route at this level, at about 29 cells. Fish, at about 38, and turtle, at about 46, are also short. Kid-friendly uses about 20 % fewer cells for the same difficulty, so the path is shorter and the walls are thicker for crayon use. Difficulty sets the detail, and more cells means a longer route, more dead ends and a smoother outline, so stay at the lowest setting for the first try.

Can I use summer mazes for a camp or the last week of school?

Yes. The Print tab can fill a page with up to six mazes, and you can print up to 20 pages. Use Worksheet layout to add a name line and a date line, and add answer pages so helpers can check the routes quickly.

For a set, each maze gets its own seed, so every puzzle is different. Click Copy link to save the exact set, and reprinting it later gives identical sheets. You can also save the set as a PDF with Print / Save as PDF and print it at any time.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need an account to make a summer maze?

No. The tool is free, requires no sign-up and needs nothing installed. You can start making mazes as soon as the page loads.

Are my summer mazes uploaded to a server?

No. Each puzzle is made on your device, and nothing is uploaded.

Will a printed summer maze look the same if I print it again?

Yes. The same seed and settings always give the same puzzle, so a reprint is identical. Copy the link to keep the exact sheet.

How do I get the answer to a summer maze?

Click Show solution to draw the route in red on screen. To print answers, tick Add answer pages on the Print tab. The answer pages come after the maze pages and show the solution in red.

Can I change the title on my summer maze?

Yes. The print title is the shape’s name followed by “Maze,” such as “Sun Maze.” Edit the Title field to write your own title.

Can I sell the summer mazes I make?

Yes. The shape outlines are our own drawings, and every maze you make is royalty-free for personal, classroom and commercial use, including Etsy printables, Teachers Pay Teachers and KDP books. No credit is required, and the only thing you may not do is copy the generator itself to run a competing service.

Related tools

• Animal mazes: Dinosaur and animal mazes, useful when you want the fish and turtle shapes with more animal choices.
• Space mazes: Space mazes for a theme change after a summer set.
• Easy mazes: Easy mazes when you want more simple puzzles for young solvers.
• Maze worksheets: Maze worksheets for classroom or camp handouts with a printed layout.
• Maze coloring pages: Maze coloring pages for children who like to colour as they solve.
• Holiday mazes: Fall and Thanksgiving mazes for the next season.
• Hard mazes: Hard mazes when older solvers want a longer route with more dead ends.
• Printable mazes: The main page for printable mazes of all kinds.