Feelings Journey Mazes

How to use it

1. Choose any starting place, direction, tool, or helper.
2. Trace a route and pause at clues, choices, helpers, or rest spaces if you want.
3. Create another path, move backward, stay with a feeling, or leave the maze unfinished.
4. There is no single correct exit or ending.

Reflection prompts

• What did your traveler notice or choose along the way?
• Where might a rest place, helper, or different route be useful?

Facilitator guidance

Frame the maze as a journey with multiple routes, not a task to eliminate an emotion. Avoid speed scoring, emotional hierarchies, or interpretations of route choice; reinforce agency, curiosity, and the option not to complete.

Adaptations & accessibility

• Use finger tracing, eye-gaze, verbal direction, movable tokens, or a larger maze.
• Reduce visual complexity or add high-contrast tactile paths.
• Let the child design a maze with loops, rests, and no exit.

Review considerations

Licensed play-therapy and accessibility review required before use; feelings must not be framed as problems to escape, and completion, speed, or the selected route must not be treated as a clinical measure.