Use Your Brain 12 – Kids Mazes, Counting & Connect-the-Dots Brain Games

Use Your Brain 12 – Kids Mazes, Counting & Connect-the-Dots Brain Games (Bilingual Arabic–English, Ages 4–8, Printable PDF) is a fun activity book packed with mazes, counting games and connect-the-dots pictures that turn early learning into a daily brain workout. Every page looks like a big spiral notebook sitting in the middle of a bright green park, which makes children feel as if they are drawing outdoors with their favourite pencil friend.

On the cover, a smiling pencil girl in a pink scarf stands beside a large whiteboard. The board shows a maze that leads a cute little character to a basket of fruit. Green trees, blue sky and birds flying overhead create a calm countryside atmosphere and set the tone for what is inside: screen-free brain games for kids that strengthen focus, logic, counting and fine-motor skills.

How Many? counting games with toys and drums

The first activity pages in Use Your Brain 12 are bright “How Many?” counting challenges. On one spread, the notebook is filled with colourful stacking-ring towers in different sizes. Children must look carefully and count how many towers of each type they see. Another page shows lots of red, blue and yellow drums with scattered drumsticks. Kids are asked again “How Many?”, this time counting each drum style and checking they did not miss any.

These visual counting worksheets help develop number sense, grouping and comparison. Instead of only reading numbers, children interact with real objects on the page, which makes early maths feel natural and fun. Parents and teachers can easily turn these pages into quick warm-up tasks before maths lessons or into simple challenges during quiet time.

Connect-the-dots pictures from 1 to 20+

A big part of this kids workbook is dedicated to connect-the-dots activities, perfect for practising pencil control and number sequencing. Children start by joining numbered dots to reveal a friendly bus with big eyes and a smiling face. Then they move on to a cute bee, a dinosaur, a duck gliding on the water and a dolphin jumping out of the sea. Later pages include even more connect-the-dots animals and characters, such as a flying bird, a tiger, a penguin and other surprises.

Each picture uses numbered points that children follow in order: 1-2-3-4 and so on, sometimes all the way up to 20 or more. As they connect the dots, they quietly rehearse number order, hand-eye coordination and fine-motor control. When the hidden picture is complete, children can colour it in, transforming the page into their own mini artwork.

Mazes for kids – help the lion, police car, fish, fire engine and more

Use Your Brain 12 includes many different mazes for kids. Each maze is printed on a large notebook page with clear paths, which makes it perfect for small hands and beginner problem-solvers.

In one maze, children are asked to “Help the lion arrive” at the zoo entrance. They trace a safe route through winding corridors until the lion meets the zoo gate. Another maze shows a police officer standing at the bottom of the page, with a police car parked inside the maze. Kids must find the correct path to help the officer reach the car.

Water-themed mazes invite children to guide a colourful fish through a maze to reach a shrimp, and to help a firefighter reach a fire using the quickest path. Other mazes challenge kids to lead a chef through twisty passageways back to his cooking pot, or to help a baker carrying bread arrive safely at the bakery. Towards the end of the book, more mazes appear with different characters and goals, giving children repeated practice in planning, patience and visual tracking.

“Where do you arrive from?” path games

Some pages use a slightly different maze style under the title “Where do you arrive from?”. In one activity, a happy strawberry stands at the bottom of the page while wiggly paths lead upwards to a bowl of strawberries and a glass of juice. Children must follow the correct route and decide which source the character arrives from. Another page shows a girl chef, a pot of soup and a washing machine. Kids trace the path that actually belongs to the chef and ignore the wrong destination.

These games train children to follow paths carefully with their fingers or pencils, improving concentration, direction-following and logical thinking. At the same time, they talk about everyday objects like fruit, juice, soup and kitchen tools, which builds real-life vocabulary in both Arabic and English.

Firefighter, bakery and emergency-theme mazes

Children who love rescue stories will enjoy the emergency-themed mazes inside this brain games workbook. One page shows a fire truck waiting at the bottom while flames appear at the top of the maze. Kids must guide the truck through the safest path to reach the fire. Another activity features a firefighter holding an extinguisher; children help the firefighter move through the maze to put out the flames.

There is also a detailed bakery maze where a baker holding fresh bread stands at the top of a large golden path. At the bottom, a bakery shop with a smoking chimney awaits. Children must trace the route that leads from the baker to his shop, reinforcing problem-solving and route-planning skills.

More advanced connect-the-dots challenges

As children move deeper into Use Your Brain 12, the connect-the-dots pictures become slightly more challenging, using additional numbers and more complex shapes. A bird with spread wings, a tiger with stripes and a penguin in a scarf all appear as unfinished outlines built from dots. Children connect the numbers in the right sequence and then colour their new animals.

These activities are especially good for children who are practising counting to 20 and beyond, as well as those who need extra help with pencil control. Because the images are cute and friendly, kids are motivated to complete them carefully to “unlock” the full picture.

Perfect printable workbook for home and classroom

Use Your Brain 12 – Kids Mazes, Counting & Connect-the-Dots Brain Games is designed for ages 4–8, making it ideal for preschool, kindergarten and early primary years. All instructions on the side banners are written in both Arabic and English, so children are constantly exposed to bilingual keywords like “How Many”, “Connect the dots”, “Help him arrive” and “Where do you arrive from?”. This makes the book a great choice for bilingual families and international schools.

Because the book is delivered as a printable PDF, you can print the entire workbook and bind it, or print individual pages as needed: one maze a day, a quick counting challenge, or a connect-the-dots picture as a reward. Favourite pages – such as the lion maze, the police-car maze or the dinosaur dot-to-dot – can be printed again and again for extra practice.

If you are looking for a kids activity book that strengthens maths, logic, attention and fine-motor skills without using screens, Use Your Brain 12 is a powerful and playful choice. It combines counting, mazes and connect-the-dots into one engaging brain-training workbook that children will want to complete to the very last page.