Big and Small with Activities

Find the big one! This preschool worksheet shows action words at different sizes, and a child spots the biggest. Weighing the sizes and picking the largest — which running, jumping and swimming is the big one? — is the simplest size judgment there is, a comparison a child makes well before counting. Each pick sharpens a young child's eye for the bigger of two pictures.

Size comparison is the perfect first judgment task: a child looks at two action words, sees that one is bigger, and chooses it. There is nothing to order and nothing to count — just two sizes weighed against each other. Making that bigger-or-smaller call again and again builds the comparison sense, a preschooler's quick eye for which of two things is larger.

Children feel clever spotting the bigger picture every time, and a finished big-and-small worksheet is a small win. When this is easy, compare the sizes in big and small with animals, or try big and small with beach things. You can also browse every big-and-small worksheet or the whole preschool collection — each sheet prints cleanly or plays online for free, and the more a child compares big and small, the surer their eye for size grows, one comparison at a time.