Big and Small with Animals

A big-and-small worksheet for preschoolers: a child looks at animals at different sizes and chooses the bigger one. Comparing two sizes — which a cat, a sheep and a hen is big, which is small? — sharpens the quick, two-way judgment a child builds by choosing the larger of a pair. It needs no letters and no numbers, just the simple comparison of big and small.

Deciding which animals is bigger is concrete, two-way reasoning a preschooler can do with confidence. Setting two sizes against each other and picking the larger sharpens a child's comparison sense — the quick judgment of bigger and smaller. It is the simplest size call there is, repeated until a child reads which of two pictures is larger at a single glance.

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 household things, or try big and small with birds. 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.