Rachel Bennett

Portrait of Rachel Bennett

Rachel Bennett is a teacher and writer who has written for Maze Printables since it launched in 2025. She taught preschool and kindergarten for six years at a public school in Ohio. Making maze sheets for her class led her to ask what makes one maze harder than the next. She later found herself testing mazes on the maze generator this site runs on.

She is an expert in early-childhood education and puzzle-based learning, with a knack for figuring out what makes one maze click for a five-year-old and what makes another one bore a fifth-grader. When she's not testing mazes, she's usually deep in a large paper puzzle or cycling the trails outside Columbus.

What Rachel covers

Rachel writes about three main topics. The picks below give you a place to start. The full list, with dates, is at the bottom of this page.

Maze types and history

How maze types differ, what makes a labyrinth, and where these paths came from. Start with the Minotaur myth or explore large hedge mazes you can still visit.

Difficulty and age fit

How to match a maze to the person solving it: preschool and kindergarten worksheets, grade-by-grade picks, and what to do when a kid gets stuck.

Generation and solving algorithms

How our recursive backtracker builds a maze, and how Prim's and Kruskal's methods differ. The solving guides show ways to find a route, from following a wall to using A*.

Editorial standards

Rachel follows two rules for her work on Maze Printables.

Print before publish. Every maze in the printable library is printed at 100% scale on a consumer printer before it goes live. If a maze doesn't print cleanly, it isn't finished.

Measured difficulty. A big grid is not always a hard maze. We measure the answer length, forks, turns, dead ends, and loops in the finished maze. The score also accounts for how many paths meet at each cell. It sets the easy, medium, hard, or expert label, rather than leaving the choice to a guess.

All articles by Rachel

30 guides, newest first. Titles and dates come from each article.

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