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🚶 How to walk the maze: Read each word in a box. Is it a REAL word? Step on it! Is it a SILLY made-up word? Stop! Try the next box. You can only step up, down, left, or right. No skips!
🟢 Real words and 🔴 silly words are colored!
Trace a path from ⭐ to 🏁 with your finger. Only land on green boxes. Read each chunked word as you step.
START
NAP·KIN
FOG·VIB
GOB·LIN
KEG·VAM
PIP·SOB
PIC·NIC
RAB·BIT
BIB·HUT
BUT·TON
KAN·VOB
HEL·MET
MAG·NET
HOT·DOG
JET·PAK
BAG·NID
TUM·LEK
JACK·POT
MUF·FIN
PUM·KIN
SAD·BIK
VEG·NOP
SAND·BOX
BOB·CAT
END
Hint: there is more than ONE path through the green boxes. Find any path you like!
🏆 Three Maze Quests
- Walk any path from ⭐ to 🏁. Read each word out loud.
- Now walk a DIFFERENT path. Read those words too!
- Read the silly words to a pal. Make them giggle!
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Read both words on a rung. Pick the REAL one. Step up to the next rung! Keep going until you hit the top. 🪜
🪜 Real Word Ladder — Climb to the Top!
Read both. Tap the REAL one. Climb up. Each one is a big word — sound it out!
🏃 Green Speed Hop — Read the path words fast!
These are the REAL words from the maze on page 1. Read all 12 as fast as you can. Time yourself!
- NAP·KIN
- GOB·LIN
- PIC·NIC
- RAB·BIT
- BUT·TON
- HEL·MET
- MAG·NET
- HOT·DOG
- JACK·POT
- MUF·FIN
- PUM·KIN
- SAND·BOX
🤪 Silly Word Giggle — Read these to a pal!
These are NOT real words. But you can still sound them out — and they will make a pal grin!
- FOG·VIB
- KEG·VAM
- PIP·SOB
- BIB·HUT
- JET·PAK
- BAG·NID
- TUM·LEK
- VEG·NOP
- SAD·BIK
- KAN·VOB
📝 Parent note: The maze on page 1 has multiple valid paths through the green cells — here is one simple route: START → NAP·KIN → PIC·NIC → RAB·BIT → HEL·MET → MAG·NET → HOT·DOG → JACK·POT → MUF·FIN → PUM·KIN → SAND·BOX → BOB·CAT → END. (Another shorter route: START → NAP·KIN → PIC·NIC → HEL·MET → MAG·NET → JACK·POT → SAND·BOX → BOB·CAT → END.) The point isn't a single “right” path — it's that the child reads each cell aloud and judges real-vs-silly before stepping. The Silly Word Giggle box at the bottom is intentional decoding practice: nonsense words prove the child can apply chunking blindly, not just rely on memory of known words.