This collection has 22 free printable treasure maps and pirate pages: fourteen map sheets with an X, a dotted route and a compass rose, five pirate scenes, one tracing worksheet for pre-writers, one regional map with borders, and one page of children around a ship’s wheel. Every page is black and white on US Letter, downloads as a free PDF, and needs no signup.
One sheet is worth calling out before the rest. Among the fourteen maps, one carries a proper key — a boxed legend listing staff, path, treasure, lake, mountains, swamp, trees and trap, with a matching symbol for each. That turns a coloring page into a first lesson in reading a map, and it is the sheet to print if the map is going into a party game or a classroom.
What’s in this collection
Fourteen map sheets, five pirate scenes, one tracing worksheet, one regional map and one group page — 22 in total, in the grid below. Each has its own Download PDF and Print button, so you can take one page instead of the whole set.
Fourteen treasure maps
The maps are drawn as curled parchment: an island coastline, a dotted route running inland, a cross marking the spot, palm trees, a wrecked ship offshore, a skull or two along the way. Several carry a compass rose with N, S, E and W marked, one has the boxed key described above, and one is a scroll with mountains and a lake instead of an island. Because the paper edges and the sea take up so much of the sheet, these color quickly and photograph well once they are done.
Pirate scenes
Five pages put characters in the picture: two pirates leaning over a table with a chart between them, a captain on deck holding a rolled map, a girl on a shore with a telescope, a pirate with a scroll and a cutlass. These carry more line detail than the maps — coats, boots, rigging — and suit an older child.
A tracing sheet and a group page
One page is not a coloring page at all: a treasure map with wide looping paths drawn as double lines, meant to be traced from the child to the island. It is a pre-writing exercise dressed as a pirate game, and it is the right sheet for a four-year-old. One more page shows a ring of children around a ship’s wheel, drawn simply, which works as a group activity page.
How to print these
Every page is US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), pure black and white, with the drawing inside the printable margin. Plain copy paper is fine; choose “Fit to page” if your printer asks. If you are using a map for a party hunt, print it, color it, then crumple and flatten the sheet — the drawn parchment edges are designed to survive that and it reads as aged paper afterwards.
FAQ
Is there a treasure map with a key or legend?
Yes — one of the fourteen maps has a boxed key with symbols for staff, path, treasure, lake, mountains, swamp, trees and a trap, which makes it usable as a map-reading exercise.
Are these blank maps or coloring pages?
Coloring pages, drawn as maps. They come with the route, the X and the landmarks already in place — there is no blank grid to draw your own on.
Which page suits a preschooler?
The tracing sheet, where the path is drawn as wide double lines to follow from one side of the map to the other.
Can I use these for a party treasure hunt?
Yes. Print as many copies as you need for your home, party or your own classroom. Re-selling or re-uploading the files elsewhere is the only thing not allowed.
For more no-prep activity sheets, the printable mazes come with answer keys, and the activities collection holds the rest of the free puzzle sets on the site.