Sort Animals and Clothes

On this sorting sheet a child separates a jumble of pictures into two groups: the animals and the clothes. With a cat, a sheep and a hen mixed among a shirt, a sock and a hat, the child decides for each picture which set it joins. That sort-by-kind reasoning — noticing what makes the animals alike and different from the clothes — is foundational classifying for Kindergarten, and the familiar pictures keep the whole task about grouping.

Grouping by category — every one of the animals with the animals, every one of the clothes with the clothes — is exactly the early classification Kindergarten is meant to build. It asks a child to notice likeness and difference and act on it, which is thinking practice that reaches far beyond this page. Keeping it to two clear sets of familiar pictures makes it a confident, doable sort.

Children who like sorting animals and clothes get the hang of grouping quickly, and a tidy two-set page feels satisfying to finish. When this feels easy, sort the pictures in sort animals and desserts and sweets, or try sort animals and musical instruments. You can also browse every sorting worksheet or the whole kindergarten collection — each sheet prints cleanly or plays online for free, and the more a child sorts, the sharper their eye for what goes together.