--- title: "Collect the stars mazes: free printable with answers" description: "Free printable mazes where the route has to pass through every star. A real variant, not a decoration, with the full route on page two. No sign-up." source: "https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/collect-the-stars" --- 1. [Home](https://www.oncebooks.com/) 2. [Printable mazes](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze) 3. Collect the stars Free printable # Collect the stars mazes Hiding stars in a maze turns "get from A to B" into "collect all five on the way". The stars are placed down dead ends, so each one forces a genuine detour, and the answer page draws the whole collecting route as one continuous line. MazeDesign Shape Output MazeCoding path A coding path turns the maze into a write-the-arrows worksheet. Grid size Ages 7–10 Difficulty This one reads hard rather than medium. Start and finish Passages Dead endsSome loopsNo dead ends A true maze: one way through, and wrong turns stop dead. Stars to collect The route has to pass through every one. Corridors How the passages wind. Each one has its own texture to solve. Theme ClassicBoldSoftShadedNavyIndigoSkyTealEmeraldForestPlumBerryCrimsonEmberAmberCocoa **Customise colours** Walls Answer line Start, end & stars Corridor fill Page background Wall thickness Bold and chunky are the large-print settings. Start and finish marks Guide grid OffOn A faint grid behind the walls, for the youngest solvers. Style StandardClean Clean drops the title band and footer, leaving the maze. Generate mazePrint / save PDF Two pages: the maze and its answer. The answer is worked out from the maze itself rather than drawn alongside it, so it can never be wrong. Same engine as our KDP studio. ## Want the whole book? This makes one maze. Sign up to turn these settings into a full maze book for Amazon KDP: hundreds of graded mazes at any trim, as print-ready PDFs. We carry your shape, size and every other setting into the studio. [Build the full book](https://app.oncebooks.com/publisher-studio/maze/edit?from=maze&v=2&s=eyJzaGFwZSI6InJlY3QiLCJzaXplIjoibWVkaXVtIiwiYWxnb3JpdGhtIjoiYmFja3RyYWNrZXIiLCJkaWZmaWN1bHR5IjoiTUVESVVNIiwiZW5kcG9pbnRzIjoiY29ybmVycyIsImNvbGxlY3QiOjUsImNvbG9yVGhlbWUiOnsidGhlbWVJZCI6ImNsYXNzaWMiLCJvdmVycmlkZXMiOnt9fX0) Free to build · pay once to export Preview The maze and its answer, as they print. Hide the preview - Maze Medium Collect all 5 stars on your way through. 1 Maze - Answer Medium · Solution Collect all 5 stars on your way through. 2 Answer Generate mazePrint / save PDF ## Why the stars are down dead ends A star sitting in a corridor gets collected by accident, which makes it decoration. The generator puts them at dead ends and spreads them out, so reaching one means leaving the direct route and coming back, and the page is a different puzzle rather than the same maze with dots on it. The route is ordered by how far each star is from the entrance, so the printed answer reads as a progression rather than a scribble. You may cross your own path, and on a collecting maze you usually have to. ## A good fit for the picture shapes Put five stars in a five-petal flower and you get one per petal, which forces a route through the whole outline rather than across one corner. The same trick works on a star shape and a cat. On a very large grid the markers get small, so medium or large is the size to use for a collecting maze. four ways out of every junction ## Rectangular A grid of squares with walls between them, an arrow going in at one corner and an arrow coming out at another. **How it solves** Each junction offers at most three ways on from the one you arrived by, so the choices stay countable and a wrong turn is quick to spot. It is the shape everyone pictures, and the one to start a child on. **Good for** Everyone. The default, and the easiest to read at any size. ## The other shapes - [six ways out of every cell Hexagonal A honeycomb of six-sided cells. The corridors run in six directions rather than four, so the paths slant as well as turn.](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/hexagonal) - [three ways out of every cell Triangular Triangles pointing up and down in alternating rows, so the corridors run diagonally across the page.](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/triangular) - [four ways out, but two of them curve Circular Concentric rings cut into wedges, with a gap in the outer rim to enter by and a small circle at the middle to reach.](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/circular) - [four ways out, inside an outline Picture shape A square-grid maze carved to fill a silhouette: a heart, a star, a crescent moon, a cat, a tree.](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/picture) ## Making a whole maze book? This page makes one maze. To publish a book on Amazon KDP, the [KDP maze maker](https://www.oncebooks.com/kdp-maze-maker) generates hundreds of graded mazes in one shape, at any trim, as a print-ready 300 DPI interior and a matching solutions PDF. Generate once, export unlimited sizes. ## More printable mazes - [Mazes for preschoolers](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/for-preschoolers) - [Mazes for adults](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/for-adults) - [Printable mazes for the classroom](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/for-classrooms) - [Coding path mazes](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/coding) - [Square mazes](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/square) - [Hexagonal mazes](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/hexagonal) [See every printable maze](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze) ## Questions **Are these collect the stars mazes free to print?** Yes. Generate the maze above and print it with its answer, at no cost and with no sign-up. It is free for classroom, home and personal use. **Is there exactly one way through?** Yes. The maze is carved as a spanning tree, which means every square is reachable and exactly one route joins any two of them. The answer page draws that route, found by searching the maze itself rather than drawn alongside it. **Can I make a maze book to sell on KDP?** Yes. The free tool makes one maze. Publisher Studio generates hundreds of graded mazes in one shape, with an optional how-to-solve page, at any KDP trim, as a print-ready 300 DPI interior and a matching solutions PDF.