Picture Graph with More Birds — Kindergarten

This kindergarten worksheet shows a scatter of parrots, swans and a crow above an empty graph. The child sorts the birds by kind — gathering the same ones together — counts how many there are in each group, and fills a column up to the matching height, building a simple picture graph one square at a time. The graph grows straight out of the child's own counting, so each bar means something they made themselves rather than something handed to them.

The last number you count in a group names how many are in it — and that count becomes the height of the column. Linking the count to the height is the understanding kindergartners are building: a column is tall because the child counted more there, short because they counted fewer. Pictured groups keep it something they can check by counting again.

Children who like more birds take to this one quickly, and it makes a strong shared lesson: build one column together on the board, then let children finish their own. When this feels easy, sort and count a different set in picture graph with breakfast, or try picture graph with desserts and sweets. You can also browse every picture graph worksheet or the whole birds collection for kindergarten — each graph prints on a single page or fills in on screen as children tap.