Picture Graph with Clothes — Kindergarten

Each picture on this sheet belongs in one group. The child looks at the shirts, socks and a hat, sorts the clothes by kind, and colors one square of a group's column for every picture that belongs there. Counting as they go, they end with a graph where the tallest column is simply the group that had the most. Sort first, then count, then show the count as height — that order is the whole idea, kept concrete with pictures a five-year-old can point to.

Comparing groups is easy once they are graphed: the taller column had more, the shorter had fewer. Kindergartners are not asked to say what the bars mean or why — only to build the columns from what they sorted and counted, and to see that height shows amount. Keeping the groups small means every column can be checked square by square.

Children who like clothes 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 colors, or try picture graph with forest creatures. You can also browse every picture graph worksheet or the whole clothes collection for kindergarten — each graph prints on a single page or fills in on screen as children tap.