Big and Small with Clothes

Big or small? On this pre-K worksheet a child looks at pairs of clothes and decides which is bigger. That simple comparison — holding two sizes side by side and choosing the larger a shirt, a sock and a hat — is one of the first ways a child sorts the world. The task is a single two-way call, bigger or smaller, with nothing to read and nothing to put in order.

Deciding which clothes 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 colors, or try big and small with feelings. 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.