Halloween 2026: Free Printable Pumpkin Maze for Classrooms and Party Bags
A free pumpkin-shape Halloween maze plus printable PDF download. Perfect for October classroom centers, trick-or-treat goodie bags, and KDP Halloween activity books.
Halloween 2026 lands on a Saturday, which means classrooms get the Friday before to run themed activities and parents get a full weekend of trick-or-treat prep. A pumpkin-shape maze is the cheapest decoration-meets-activity you can hand out: print it on orange paper for goodie bags, on white for classroom centers, and it stays useful from the moment you hand it over until the kid actually solves it.
Our headliner is a pumpkin-silhouette maze designed at hard difficulty so the 8-12 age bracket gets a real challenge — not too quick, not frustrating. The PDF prints clean on US Letter and A4 with safe margins, and the separate solution sheet means teachers and party hosts can check answers without a meltdown.
Pair it with other autumn mazes — letters M, W, X and Y look like spooky shapes, the bird-shape maze doubles as a crow, and the moon and tree mazes from the nature pack round out a full Halloween bundle. Print 5 different mazes, stack them by difficulty, and you have a station-rotation activity for an entire classroom hour.
KDP authors publishing for October sales: the same generator behind this pumpkin maze will produce a full 100-page Halloween activity book interior. Pro and Commercial Use Certificate holders get watermark-free exports and full resale rights — drop the PDFs into your manuscript, add a black-cat cover, and ship before the Amazon ranking spike kicks in early September.
Trick-or-treat bag idea: roll the printed maze into a tube, tie with orange-and-black twine, and hand out instead of (or alongside) candy. Kids who can't have sugar still get something fun, and parents who hate the sugar crash thank you.
Download the pumpkin maze below, then browse the rest of the Halloween-adjacent prints. Free, no signup, no email gate.
