Customer Reviews

My Book of Easy Mazes (Kumon Workbooks)

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My almost 3 yr old and I love this book along with My Book of Tracing and My First Book of Mazes. We work a bit in each one since they all start out with nice, easy pages. The mazes are *really* easy and start out as short paths for tracing before looking like actual mazes. We work both maze books using a bingo chip which she guides along like a little car. This has worked well for her since the last ones are too hard for her and she can continue to do mazes at her level by switching books and revisiting mazes.

This is a good book for very young children (2+). There are a lot of really simple mazes (actually 80). Each maze is on an 8 1/2 x 11 page. The mazes get progressively harder, but they were all really easy for my three year old son. If I had let him, he would have finished a good portion of the book in just one sitting. As with all the Kumon workbooks, it is printed on good quality paper with colorful backgrounds. Also, there is a certificate of achievement in the back.

This is a great product, but geared to younger children as their first introduction to mazes. My 4 yr old son breezed through this book in one sitting. He may not have gotten them all perfect, but it wasn't much of a challenge at 4.

My Son is 2.5 yrs old and loved this book. He finished it in less than a months time. Yes, they weren't very challenging mazes, but kept the attention of my child for 10 minutes everyday. He liked it so much that everyday he would ask for it himself. I only wish they came in spiral bound or something like similar, so that I need not hold the book for him while he is working.

I agree that these are very easy, and my 3 year-old is generally capable of doing these with only the slightest errors. She tends to get so excited about moving along to something new that she'll do things quickly and sloppily. I appreciate that this book has forced her to stop for a minute, survey the entire picture, and then choose her path. It's a valuable lesson in patience.

The type of paper used here is excellent for erasing. If your child uses a regular pencil, as opposed to a crayon, colored pencil, or marker, you can erase the mistakes and give your child another chance to complete the maze perfectly.

Looking for an inexpensive educational item? Look no further. Kumon workbooks are excellent.

I agree with another viewer that this is geared for very young children. My three-year old could have finished this in one sitting if I let him. We've been doing a lot of maze books to help improve his pencil control since he was two years old because he is a lefty - it's hard for him to see around his own hand.

However, the mazes in this book were some very interesting shapes (ex: scissors and a mermaid), and the "paths" of the mazes are wide enough that your child will easily be able to stay between the lines.

Also, the Kumon books achieve exactly what they state, so I recommend My Book of Mazes: Things That Go! (Kumon Workbooks) and My Book of Mazes: Around the World for something more challenging.

My son loved this book so much he sat for a half hour mastering these mazes before he agreed to put it down. Definitely worth the money. I suggest parents make some copies of the pages before their child begins. Also, it would be nice it the publisher made it spiral bound.

I tried this when my daughter was 2.5 and the concept of getting from A to B without crossing the lines wasn't really there.
But now that she is 3, she really likes them. They are very easy, no question about that, but the pictures are fun and I think they are great to introduce the idea of a maze. For example, the first one is a caterpillar and you can explain (fairly easily) that you're going from the mouth to the... well... tail. On the second maze, there are two dogs at each end of the maze and they want to meet and be friends.
If your child knows what they are supposed to do in a maze, this book is way too easy. However, as an introduction to the concept of a maze, I think they are great. If there is one critique is that the mazes sometimes don't seem to follow an order of difficulty (at least in my opinion).

My almost 3 year old didn't enjoy holding a pencil and writing on a piece of paper. He preferred the occasional crayon scribble on paper or the ever present doodle pad. Every attempt to get him to hold a pencil pretty much failed until this workbook happened.
The mazes are colorful, interesting and involve all toddler friendly stuff like planes, automobiles, animals etc. He grabbed a pencil and finished the entire book over a couple of days. He wants to do more now. In the process he is holding the pencil better and also a tad more confidently than before. Job Accomplished!