Video games can play a vital part in a young child's education, particularly those that look to strengthen their spatial abilities. This study will look at a mixed gender group of 5 year olds from the Institución Educativa Julio Perez Ferrero focussing on the identification of signs to find the way out of a maze. This plays an important role in a childs sense of direction and finding the correct path, hence developing spatial skills. Results have shown that video game use improved the childrens abilities, albeit at differing speeds, to read signs and avoid enemies, such signs included both images and sounds. We discovered that the girls were more attentive at spotting signs and consider the use of virtual mazes to strengthen children's spatial skills highly effective, although implications and direction of this research are open to discussion.