Big and Small with Fruits

This preschool worksheet is all about big and small: a child looks at fruit shown at different sizes and finds the bigger one in each pair. Comparing two pictures and deciding which is larger — is this an apple, a banana and a pear bigger, or that one? — is one of a young child's first thinking moves. Weighing two sizes against each other and picking the larger is a quick, two-way comparison, with nothing to order and nothing to count.

Deciding which fruit 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 furniture, or try big and small with everyday objects. 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.