Halloween Maze for Kids: Free Printable Skeleton & Bat Candy Maze

Can you help a silly skeleton and its bat friend find the Halloween candy?

Our free printable Halloween maze for kids combines a simple maze challenge with a spooky-but-funny coloring page. The skeleton and bat are searching for treats, but first they need to make their way through all the twists, turns, paths, and dead ends.

Kids can solve the maze with a pencil, trace the route with a finger before committing to a path, and then color the Halloween characters and candy when the puzzle is finished. Add orange pumpkins, purple skies, glowing jack-o’-lanterns, black cats, ghosts, or an entire trick-or-treating neighborhood around the original design.

This printable works especially well for preschool and elementary-age Halloween activities, classroom parties, homeschool breaks, October activity tables, and quiet fun at home.

Grab a pencil, choose a starting path, and see if you can help the skeleton and bat reach the candy!

🎃 Meet Our Halloween Maze

This printable features a playful Halloween scene with:

• A skeleton
• A bat
• A winding maze
• Halloween candy
• Plenty of spaces to color

The goal is simple: find a path through the maze that takes the characters to their treats.

Some routes may lead to dead ends.

Others may seem promising at first but eventually force you to turn around.

That is part of the fun.

Once the puzzle has been solved, the same page becomes a Halloween coloring activity.

For an entire collection of printable puzzles, I Spy pages, mazes, matching games, and other activities, explore our Coloring Pages of Games.

🧩 How to Solve the Halloween Maze

Start by finding the entrance.

Then look ahead before drawing a line.

Follow one pathway through the maze.

When you reach a choice, decide which direction seems most promising.

If you hit a dead end, return to the last turn and try another route.

Keep going until the skeleton and bat reach their Halloween candy.

There is no problem with taking a wrong turn.

Wrong turns are exactly what mazes are designed to contain.

👆 Trace the Maze With a Finger First

Younger children may enjoy exploring the maze with a finger before using a pencil.

Place one finger at the entrance.

Move slowly along the path.

When you reach a dead end, slide back and try again.

Once you think you have found the complete route, start over with a pencil or crayon.

This allows children to experiment without worrying about making permanent marks immediately.

✏️ Solve It With a Pencil

A pencil is especially handy for mazes because mistakes can be erased.

Draw a thin line through the pathways.

Try not to cross any walls.

If the route ends unexpectedly, erase the last section or simply draw back toward the previous intersection.

Once the correct route is complete, trace over it with a bright color.

Try:

• Orange
• Purple
• Lime green
• Red

The finished solution becomes part of the Halloween artwork.

🖍️ Solve the Maze With a Crayon

Want a bolder route?

Use a crayon.

Choose one bright shade and follow the path through the maze.

Maybe the skeleton follows an orange trail while the bat follows purple.

If you make a wrong turn, leave it there.

Your page will show every route you tried before finding the candy.

🌈 Create a Rainbow Maze Route

Instead of using one color, change colors every time you make a turn.

Try:

Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Purple

Then repeat.

By the time you reach the candy, you may have a rainbow path winding through the entire maze.

🔍 Look Ahead Before You Turn

At each intersection, pause and inspect the pathways.

Can you see one path that closes immediately?

Does another continue much farther?

You do not have to race.

A maze can be solved slowly, one decision at a time.

Older children may enjoy trying to spot obvious dead ends before putting pencil to paper.

🚫 What Is a Dead End?

A dead end is a path that stops without leading to the destination.

When you reach one, you have not failed.

You have simply discovered one route that does not work.

Go back to the previous junction and choose another path.

You can even mark dead ends with a tiny X so you remember which routes you already explored.

❌ Mark the Wrong Paths

Give wrong turns their own symbol.

Try:

X = Dead end

★ = Good route

🍬 = Candy destination

This turns the maze into a little mapping activity.

Older children can create their own symbols.

🦴 Color the Funny Halloween Skeleton

Once the maze is solved, start coloring the characters.

For a familiar skeleton look, leave most of the bones white and add pale:

• Gray
• Blue
• Lavender

along the edges.

The background can be much darker, helping the pale skeleton stand out.

Or create a completely colorful skeleton.

Try rainbow bones, glowing green bones, or purple bones beneath an orange Halloween sky.

🌈 Create a Rainbow Skeleton

Color different bones different shades.

Maybe:

Skull: Yellow
Arms: Orange
Ribs: Green
Legs: Blue and purple

Add bright shoes or a silly hat if there is room.

Halloween skeletons do not have to be frightening.

This one is mostly interested in finding candy.

💚 Create a Glowing Skeleton

Use pale green throughout the bones.

Add brighter lime green around the edges.

Then color the background:

• Black
• Navy
• Purple

Imagine the skeleton glows in the dark.

Draw tiny green stars around it.

🎩 Give the Skeleton a Costume

A skeleton can dress up for Halloween too.

Draw:

• Witch hat
• Pirate hat
• Crown
• Bow tie
• Cape

Maybe the skeleton does not want to dress as a skeleton for Halloween because that is what it looks like every day.

What costume would it choose instead?

🦇 Color the Halloween Bat

The bat gives you another classic Halloween character to decorate.

Try a familiar dark palette:

• Black
• Charcoal
• Brown
• Deep gray

Add lighter shading inside the wings.

Or make the bat:

• Purple
• Blue
• Green
• Pink
• Rainbow-colored

A Halloween bat can be as realistic or imaginary as you want.

💜 Create a Purple Halloween Bat

Purple works beautifully with orange Halloween details.

Try:

Body: Deep purple
Wings: Lavender and violet
Eyes: Yellow

Add tiny orange stars behind it.

Maybe the bat carries its own trick-or-treat bag.

🌈 Create a Rainbow Bat

Divide the wings into sections.

Use:

Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Purple

Keep the bat’s body dark so the wings become the main attraction.

Or reverse the idea and make the entire bat rainbow-colored.

😄 Give the Bat a Personality

What is the bat thinking while it follows the skeleton through the maze?

Maybe it is:

• Excited
• Hungry
• Confused
• Mischievous
• Very serious about candy

Give it a name.

Try:

• Boo
• Flutter
• Midnight
• Cocoa
• Pip
• Echo

Write the name near the character.

🍬 Color the Halloween Candy

The candy destination should be bright enough to make all that maze-solving worthwhile.

Use:

• Red
• Orange
• Yellow
• Green
• Blue
• Purple
• Pink

Give every wrapper a different pattern.

Try:

• Stripes
• Polka dots
• Stars
• Zigzags
• Tiny pumpkins

The treats can become some of the most colorful parts of the page.

🍭 Add More Candy

Draw extra treats around the destination.

Try:

• Lollipops
• Wrapped sweets
• Chocolate bars
• Candy corn
• Gummies

Maybe the skeleton and bat have discovered the biggest Halloween candy stash in the neighborhood.

🍬 Count the Candy

Turn the page into a simple counting activity.

After completing the maze, draw:

• 1 lollipop
• 2 candy bars
• 3 wrapped candies
• 4 candy corns

Count everything.

Older children can create their own candy-counting challenge for someone else.

🎨 Choose a Halloween Color Palette

The maze can become a complete coloring page after the puzzle is solved.

Try a classic Halloween palette:

• Orange
• Black
• Purple
• Lime green
• Yellow

Or create something different.

Pastel Halloween

• Lavender
• Peach
• Mint
• Pink
• Baby blue

Midnight Halloween

• Navy
• Purple
• Black
• Silver
• Yellow

Candy Halloween

• Pink
• Turquoise
• Orange
• Purple
• Lime

Use one palette throughout the maze and added background.

🎃 Add Jack-o’-Lanterns

Draw several pumpkins around the maze.

Give each one a different face.

Maybe one looks:

• Happy
• Surprised
• Sleepy
• Silly

Color the pumpkins orange, white, green, purple, or rainbow.

Then continue with our Jack-o’-Lantern Coloring Page, featuring three cheerful carved pumpkins ready for even more Halloween color.

👻 Add Friendly Ghosts

Draw little ghosts floating above the maze.

Leave most of them white.

Use pale blue or lavender along the edges.

Give each ghost a different expression.

Maybe one ghost knows the correct route and is trying to help.

Perhaps another ghost is deliberately sending the skeleton toward a dead end.

🐈‍⬛ Add a Black Cat

Draw a cat sitting beside the maze.

Use:

• Black
• Charcoal
• Dark purple

Add bright yellow or green eyes.

Maybe the cat guards the candy.

The skeleton and bat have to solve the maze before the cat will let them have their treats.

🧙 Add a Witch

Draw a witch flying over the maze on a broomstick.

Color the hat:

• Black
• Purple
• Green
• Orange

Maybe the witch created the maze.

Perhaps solving it is the only way to reach her magical candy shop.

🕷️ Add Spiders & Webs

Draw small spiderwebs around the corners.

Start with several straight lines meeting at one point.

Connect them with curved lines.

Add tiny spiders.

Use:

• Black
• Gray
• Purple

Maybe one spider has built a web across the wrong pathway.

🌕 Add a Halloween Moon

Draw a large moon behind the maze.

Try:

• Pale yellow
• Cream
• Gold
• Orange

Add bats flying across it.

Color the sky dark blue or purple.

The whole activity can turn into a Halloween-night scene.

🏚️ Add a Haunted House

Imagine the maze is the front yard of a haunted mansion.

Draw:

• Crooked roof
• Tall windows
• Chimney
• Bare trees
• Fence

Color the windows yellow so they appear to glow.

Maybe the candy is hidden inside the house.

🌽 Turn It Into a Corn Maze

Halloween mazes do not have to be made from walls.

Imagine the skeleton and bat are exploring a huge autumn corn maze.

Draw tall stalks around the outside.

Add:

• Pumpkins
• Hay bales
• Scarecrow
• Fall leaves

Use gold, brown, orange, and green.

🎃 Create a Pumpkin-Patch Maze

Draw pumpkins all around the border.

Make some tiny and others enormous.

Use:

• Orange
• Cream
• Green
• Yellow

Give only a few jack-o’-lantern faces.

Perhaps the skeleton and bat are trying to reach a Halloween party hidden in the middle of the pumpkin patch.

🏡 Build a Trick-or-Treat Neighborhood

Imagine every maze turn represents a street.

Draw little houses around the outside.

Decorate them with:

• Pumpkins
• Ghosts
• Bats
• Lights
• Candy bowls

Maybe the skeleton and bat are trick-or-treating from house to house.

The candy at the finish represents the final stop of the night.

🍬 A Little Trick-or-Treat History

Today, trick-or-treating is one of the most familiar Halloween activities in the United States. Children dress in costumes, visit homes, and receive candy or other treats.

The custom did not appear all at once.

Historians connect modern trick-or-treating with several older traditions, including souling and guising, along with later Halloween customs that developed in North America.

In guising traditions in Scotland and Ireland, children in disguise could visit homes and perform songs, jokes, or other small entertainments in exchange for food or treats.

The modern American phrase and practice developed much later.

🍭 Candy Wasn’t Always the Only Treat

Modern trick-or-treating is strongly associated with candy, but children did not always receive miniature candy bars.

Historical Halloween treats could include things such as:

• Fruit
• Nuts
• Coins
• Small toys
• Baked goods

Commercially packaged candy became increasingly dominant during the twentieth century.

So if the skeleton and bat traveled back in time, their maze prize might look very different.

🕰️ Trick-or-Treating Became Especially Popular in the 20th Century

The familiar American form of trick-or-treating became increasingly common during the twentieth century.

By the middle of the century, the practice was becoming strongly associated with children’s Halloween celebrations, neighborhood visits, costumes, and treats.

Today it remains one of the most recognizable October 31 traditions in many U.S. communities.

That makes candy a perfect destination for this silly Halloween maze.

🎭 Design Costumes for the Characters

The skeleton and bat could dress up too.

What costumes should they wear?

Maybe:

Skeleton: Pirate

Bat: Superhero

Or:

Skeleton: Wizard

Bat: Tiny dragon

Draw costume accessories around them.

Perhaps Halloween is the only night when a skeleton dresses as an ordinary human.

📖 Turn the Maze Into a Halloween Story

Start with:

The skeleton and bat could see the candy, but there was one problem…

Then explain why the maze exists.

Maybe:

• A witch created it.
• A ghost rearranges it every night.
• It grows inside a magical pumpkin patch.
• The candy is enchanted.
• The maze only appears on October 31.

After solving the puzzle, write what happens next.

🦴 The Skeleton & Bat Candy Adventure

Give the characters names.

Maybe:

Skeleton: Bones

Bat: Boo

Then write:

Bones and Boo had been searching for Halloween candy all night when they discovered…

Perhaps the maze entrance suddenly appears.

Maybe a sign reads:

CANDY THIS WAY

Unfortunately, there are about twenty wrong ways too.

Finish the story after solving the puzzle.

👻 Write the Haunted Maze Mystery

Try:

Every year the maze changed at midnight, but this Halloween…

What is different?

Maybe:

• Walls move.
• Ghosts appear.
• Candy talks.
• Skeleton gets lost.
• Bat secretly knows the route.

Draw the next scene on another sheet of paper.

🧙 The Witch’s Candy Challenge

Imagine a witch guards an enormous bowl of candy.

She tells the skeleton and bat:

You can have the treats if you solve my maze.

What happens if they choose the wrong path?

Maybe nothing frightening happens.

Perhaps they simply end up at:

• Pumpkin patch
• Ghost party
• Black-cat café
• Spider’s web

Write a funny ending for each wrong route.

🎲 Turn the Maze Into a Dice Game

Use a die to add another layer of play.

Before moving through the maze, roll.

Try:

1: Move to the next turn
2: Move two turns
3: Draw a pumpkin
4: Draw a bat
5: Add a piece of candy
6: Choose your own action

The maze itself can still be solved normally, while the die determines what extra decoration gets added along the way.

🟠 Play Color-by-Turn

Assign each direction a color.

For example:

Left turn: Orange

Right turn: Purple

Each time your maze path turns, switch to the appropriate color.

By the end, the successful route will be made from alternating Halloween colors.

🔢 Count the Turns

Once you solve the maze, count how many times your route changes direction.

Every time the line turns left or right, count one turn.

Write:

My route had ___ turns.

Then let someone else solve another copy.

Did they find the same route?

↔️ Practice Left & Right

A maze is an easy place to talk about directions.

As you move, say:

Left

Right

Straight

You can also give directions aloud.

For example:

“Go straight.”

“Turn left.”

“Now turn right.”

An adult or child can act as the navigator while someone else moves through the maze.

🗣️ Be the Maze Navigator

One person looks at the page.

Another holds the pencil.

The navigator gives instructions:

“Go forward.”

“Turn right.”

“Stop.”

“Go back.”

Try to reach the candy without the person holding the pencil choosing the route themselves.

Then switch jobs.

🧠 Try the Maze Without Drawing

Older children can challenge themselves to solve the path visually before making any marks.

Look through the maze.

Follow possible routes with your eyes.

Try to identify dead ends.

Then draw the complete route.

If it does not work, that is fine—go back and try again.

🔄 Start at the Candy

Want to change the challenge?

Start at the finish.

Pretend the skeleton and bat have already found the candy but now need to get home.

Trace the route backward through the maze.

The maze stays exactly the same, but the activity feels a little different.

⏪ Solve the Maze Backward

Older children might enjoy solving the entire puzzle from finish to start.

Begin at the candy.

Work toward the characters.

Compare the experience with solving it normally.

Was one direction easier?

✏️ Design Your Own Halloween Maze

After finishing this one, create another.

Draw a start and finish.

Maybe:

Start: Witch

Finish: Cauldron

or:

Start: Ghost

Finish: Haunted house

Create winding pathways between them.

Add dead ends.

Then give the maze to someone else.

The challenge is to make it tricky but still solvable.

🎃 Create a Pumpkin Maze

Draw a large pumpkin outline.

Fill the inside with maze pathways.

Mark:

START near the stem.

Put a piece of candy at the center.

Draw several dead ends.

Now your maze itself becomes a Halloween pumpkin.

🦇 Create a Bat-Shaped Maze

Draw a giant bat silhouette.

Fill the wings with paths.

Start at one wingtip.

Put the finish at the other.

Decorate the background with stars and a moon.

👻 Create a Ghost-Shaped Maze

Draw a large ghost.

Fill its body with pathways.

Place:

START near the bottom.

Draw a candy bucket near the head.

Give the ghost a funny face.

Now you have designed your own Halloween activity page.

🍬 Create a Candy Maze

Draw a giant wrapped candy.

Fill the wrapper with maze paths.

The prize at the center could be another tiny candy.

Color the finished puzzle in bright pink, orange, green, purple, and blue.

🔍 Make a Halloween I Spy Game

Add tiny objects around the maze.

Hide:

• 3 pumpkins
• 2 bats
• 4 pieces of candy
• 1 black cat
• 5 stars

Give the finished page to someone else.

Can they find everything?

This turns one maze into a maze-and-I-Spy activity.

🔤 Add a Halloween Letter Hunt

Hide letters around the page.

Maybe:

B
A
T

Ask children to find them and spell:

BAT

Then try:

B
O
O

or:

C
A
T

Keep the activity simple for younger children.

🔢 Add a Halloween Number Hunt

Hide:

1
2
3
4
5

around the maze.

Find the numbers in order.

Then color each one differently.

This adds a simple counting activity without changing the original puzzle.

🎨 Color After You Solve

One approach is to solve the entire maze first and save coloring as the reward.

Once the candy has been reached, color:

• Skeleton
• Bat
• Candy
• Background

Maybe every wrong path becomes one color while the correct route becomes another.

The solution itself can become part of the finished artwork.

🖍️ Color Before You Solve

Or reverse the order.

Color all the Halloween characters first.

Then solve the puzzle last.

Some children may prefer decorating the picture before concentrating on the maze.

There is no required order.

✋ Maze Fun for Preschoolers

Younger children do not need to complete a maze independently for the activity to be worthwhile.

Try working together.

An adult can say:

“Where should we go?”

“Does this path stop?”

“Should we try left or right?”

Children can trace the route with a finger, follow along with a chunky crayon, or simply color the skeleton and bat if the maze feels too difficult.

The goal is not perfect puzzle solving.

Keep it enjoyable.

For more uncomplicated pages designed with younger colorists in mind, visit our Preschool Coloring Pages.

🎒 Add a Challenge for School-Age Kids

Older children may want more than simply finding the route.

Try:

• Solve without erasing.
• Mark every dead end first.
• Solve backward.
• Count all turns.
• Design a harder maze afterward.
• Write a story about the characters.

You can adapt one printable to several skill levels without changing the original page.

✏️ Mazes, Drawing & Fine-Motor Practice

Following narrow paths with a pencil or crayon gives children another opportunity to control a writing or drawing tool.

The National Association for the Education of Young Children includes activities such as drawing, scribbling, writing with crayons and pencils, putting together puzzles, and playing games among experiences that give children opportunities to use the small muscles of their hands.

There is no need to insist that a child stay perfectly inside every maze line.

A wobbly route still reaches the candy.

🏫 Halloween Maze for the Classroom

This printable can be useful for:

• October morning work
• Early finishers
• Halloween parties
• Classroom centers
• Indoor recess
• Library programs
• Homeschool activities
• Quiet-time folders

Print several copies so children can solve the maze in different ways.

One copy could be solved normally.

Another can become a rainbow maze.

A third could be expanded into a Halloween story.

🎃 Create a Halloween Activity Station

Set out:

• Maze printables
• Pencils
• Crayons
• Colored pencils

Add a few other Halloween pages.

Students can choose between:

• Maze
• Coloring
• Drawing
• Story writing

Our Coloring Pages of Halloween offer witches, ghosts, pumpkins, black cats, cauldrons, scarecrows, and other characters that work naturally beside the maze.

🏆 Hold a Maze Design Challenge

Instead of racing to finish the existing maze, challenge children to create a new one.

Ask:

Can you make a maze that someone else can solve?

Every maze needs:

• Entrance
• Exit
• Correct route
• Dead ends

Decorate it with a Halloween character.

Trade pages with a classmate and solve each other’s creations.

👻 Create a Classroom Haunted Maze Gallery

After students design their own mazes, display them together.

Possible headings include:

Can You Find Your Way?

Our Haunted Mazes

Lost in Halloween!

Tricks, Treats & Twists

Visitors can try solving several.

📖 Pair the Maze With Creative Writing

Once the skeleton and bat reach the candy, ask students to write what happens next.

Maybe:

They discover the candy is enchanted.

A ghost asks them to share.

The candy bowl suddenly runs away.

The maze provides a clear beginning and destination, making it an easy story prompt.

🎉 Use It at a Halloween Party

A printable maze makes a simple party-table activity because it requires very little preparation.

Set out:

• Pencils
• Crayons
• Printouts

Kids can solve and color while waiting for another game or activity.

No complicated materials are needed.

Finished pages can go home afterward.

🍬 Make a Pretend Candy Prize

After solving the maze, children can draw their dream Halloween candy.

Give it a name.

Maybe:

Monster Crunch

Ghost Gummies

Bat Bites

Pumpkin Pops

Design the wrapper.

Choose the flavor.

No actual sugar required.

🏠 Halloween Maze Fun at Home

Use the printable during:

• October weekends
• Rainy afternoons
• Halloween night
• Playdates
• Family activity time

Print one for everyone.

Try solving it with different colors.

Maybe each family member creates a new background after finishing the maze.

Compare the results.

🎃 Pair It With Jack-o’-Lantern Coloring

After finding the candy, continue with our Jack-o’-Lantern Coloring Page.

That printable features three cheerful carved pumpkins with different faces.

Together, the pages make a simple two-part Halloween activity:

1. Solve the skeleton and bat maze.
2. Color and decorate the jack-o’-lanterns.

Add names and stories to both.

🍂 Pair It With October Coloring

For an activity about the whole month rather than only Halloween, try our October Coloring Page.

The October page includes pumpkins, autumn leaves, acorns, rain boots, and other seasonal details.

Color that page using warm fall shades.

Then make the Halloween maze darker and spookier.

The two printables show different sides of October.

🎃 Explore More Halloween Coloring

Our Coloring Pages of Halloween provide a much bigger Halloween gallery featuring:

• Witch
• Ghost
• Black cat
• Cauldron
• Pumpkin
• Scarecrow
• Halloween bus

Use the maze when you want a puzzle activity.

Use the larger Halloween collection when you want traditional coloring pages.

The two pages complement each other naturally.

🎲 Explore More Coloring Games

If the maze is your favorite part, visit our Coloring Pages of Games.

That collection combines coloring with activities such as:

• Mazes
• I Spy
• Dot-to-dot
• Find the difference
• Word searches
• Tic-tac-toe
• Matching games

It is a natural next stop for kids who would rather solve something than simply color a picture.

📚 Explore More Educational Printables

Our Educational Coloring Pages & Activities bring together printables involving:

• Letters
• Numbers
• Maps
• Animals
• Seasons
• Games
• Early-learning activities

This Halloween maze fits particularly well with the site’s activity side because children are actively navigating a puzzle instead of only filling in an illustration.

🍂 Continue Into Fall Coloring

Halloween takes place during fall in the Northern Hemisphere, so pumpkins and spooky characters can easily lead into a broader autumn collection.

Visit our Fall Coloring Pages for:

• Pumpkins
• Leaves
• Squirrels
• Sunflowers
• Autumn houses

For an especially large collection, browse our 54 Coloring Sheets for Autumn.

🎉 Explore More Holiday Coloring Pages

Halloween is only one stop in a whole year of celebrations.

Our Holiday Coloring Pages include printable collections for:

• Halloween
• Thanksgiving
• Christmas
• Easter
• Valentine’s Day
• St. Patrick’s Day
• New Year’s
• Fourth of July

Save favorite pages throughout the year and build your own holiday activity binder.

🖍️ Best Supplies for This Halloween Maze

A pencil is probably the easiest tool for solving the maze because mistakes can be erased.

Crayons work well for:

• Skeleton
• Bat
• Candy
• Larger background areas

Colored pencils are useful for:

• Maze route
• Tiny details
• Shading

Markers can create bold Halloween colors after the puzzle has been solved. Slightly heavier paper may help if marker ink tends to bleed through standard printer paper.

You can also use more than one tool.

Solve with pencil first, trace the correct route with marker, and finish the characters with crayons.

🖨️ How to Use This Free Halloween Maze

Print the maze.

Find the skeleton and bat.

Locate the candy destination.

Trace possible routes with your eyes or finger.

Then choose a path.

If it ends, go back and try another.

Once the characters reach their treats, color the entire picture.

Add:

• Pumpkins
• Ghosts
• Bats
• Black cats
• Moon
• Stars
• Haunted house
• Extra candy

Then turn the finished maze into a story or design a completely new Halloween puzzle.

One printed page can become a maze, coloring sheet, drawing activity, counting challenge, directional game, and story starter.

🦇 Help the Skeleton & Bat Find Their Halloween Treats

This free printable Halloween maze for kids brings together two kinds of October fun: solving a puzzle and coloring a spooky-but-silly Halloween scene.

Help the skeleton and bat navigate the twists and dead ends until they reach their candy. Trace the route with a finger, solve it with a pencil, make the correct path rainbow-colored, count the turns, practice left and right, add jack-o’-lanterns and ghosts, or design a brand-new Halloween maze of your own.

Once the puzzle is solved, the adventure does not have to end.

Maybe the candy is magical.

Perhaps the witch who created the maze has another challenge waiting.

Or maybe the skeleton and bat simply sit down and enjoy their well-earned Halloween treats.

Choose a path and see where it leads.

Happy Halloween!

🔗 Related Articles

• Coloring Pages of Halloween
• Jack-o’-Lantern Coloring Page
• October Coloring Page
• Coloring Pages of Games
• Preschool Coloring Pages
• Educational Coloring Pages & Activities
• Fall Coloring Pages
• 54 Coloring Sheets for Autumn
• Holiday Coloring Pages

📚 Sources

• National Association for the Education of Young Children — Help Your Child Build Fine Motor Skills
• Library of Congress — Today in History: October 31
• Library of Congress — The Origins of Halloween Traditions
• Smithsonian Magazine — The Celtic Origins of Trick-or-Treating
• Smithsonian Magazine — The History of Trick-or-Treating Goes Back Centuries