Praying Mantis Maze
A real, solvable maze shaped like a praying mantis — generated by algorithm, verified to have a single solution, and free to print. Start at the red flag and find your way to the checkered flag.
Free for personal & classroom use. For commercial use — products, KDP books, or resale — get a Commercial License.
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Best for ages
- 5+
- Est. solve time
- 5–10 min
- Grid
- 150×124
- Solution path
- 794 cells
- Corridor cells
- 3,186
- Dead ends
- 382
- Solutions
- 1 (verified)
About the Praying Mantis
A praying mantis is a hunting insect named for the way it holds its folded front legs, as if praying. Those front legs are its real tools: they are lined for gripping and snap shut to catch other insects. A mantis can also swivel its triangular head on a flexible neck to watch prey, something few insects can do. Print this mantis for a lesson on the predators hiding among garden plants.
- A mantis catches prey with its enlarged, folded front legs.
- It can turn its triangular head on a flexible neck to look around.
- There are over 2,400 mantis species worldwide.
Solution
How to use this maze
- Start at the red flag and trace a path to the checkered flag — there is one correct route.
- Print on A4 or US Letter at 100% scale; the solution image above is the answer key.
- Free for classroom, homeschool, and personal printing.
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