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21 Big and Little Worksheets

August 20, 2018 By Kelli Miller 6 Comments

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The concept of big and little can be a fun one for your preschooler to learn. Sometime around the age of 2 your child can start to comprehend the concept of big and little. Learning about big and little is a way of teaching your child to observe what they see around them.

These free printable big and little worksheets will help you to re-enforce this concept to your preschool children!

The Importance of Teaching Big and Little Concepts to Children:

Providing your children with the opportunity to learn early math skills is extremely important. In fact, teaching the big and little concept to young children will help to provide the foundation children need to succeed in elementary school and beyond.

It is important to build lessons in early childhood around the basic skills that build up to advanced mathematics skills your child will use in both high school and post secondary education.

The big and little concept is an important place to start for many reasons. Not only will it help them to develop skills necessary to learn different units of measurement, but it will have a huge impact on their understanding of the world around them, increase their mathematical understanding and help to condition them to make informed decisions as an adult. From preschool to elementary school, kids are setting the foundation for future life skills.

large and small comparison activities and printables

The Early Years

Throughout the early years of your child’s life they will start to explore and notice mathematical dimensions of their surroundings, being able to identify the difference between things like a big building and a small one.

It is only natural that your children are fascinated by variability in size. Taking great delight in the vast difference between the large size of things like skyscrapers, trees and elephants and the slightness of things like caterpillars and ants. The magnetism of learning what’s smaller or bigger in comparison to each other fosters your child’s curiosity about different units of measurement.  From learning about inches to miles and pounds to gallons, measurement is an incredibly important lesson for young kids to learn about math. This is because measurement is a very fundamental concept when it comes to science and technology. Without it, it would be incredibly difficult to form theories and navigate the world around us.

Not only do basic concepts help to build early math skills, but they can also help to strengthen your child’s vocabulary, teaching them the correct way to identify differences verbally and help with reading and other building blocks of early education that will give them the knowledge they need to succeed in school and their daily lives.

In School

Basic Math concepts like big and little have a huge impact when it comes to kids being able to make sense of the world around them. This helps them to build a solid foundation for success in their schooling. The large and small concept will help your children to develop their mathematical understanding, helping to carry them through elementary and middle school. Learning big and small also helps to condition your children to move on to more complicated math concepts like geometry.

Basic math concepts are not only used in math courses, but will also be applied through social studies, science and other subjects, making them incredibly important to learn early on. Considering these courses are important to your child’s educational future, it’s important to start building the foundation now. Learning the large and small concept is a great place to start, especially when they are still young.

Once your child reaches high school, they will need to be proficient in mathematics to achieve success in course work that leads to higher education and technological literacy, making it extremely important to their post secondary education, and success as an adult.

big and little worksheets

In Adulthood

When your child has finished school, they will be required to have a broad range of mathematical understanding to have the ability to make informed decisions when it comes to things like their households, lives, jobs and community. We, as adults use the big and little concept consistently in our daily lives translating to measure things like distance and more. Having an in-depth knowledge and understanding of these basic math concepts from a young age, will help to ensure that your children develop the confidence to use them in their every day lives once they reach adulthood.

Basic math concepts like big and small builds reasoning that leads to understanding and comprehension. Teaching them early on will help your children to develop a mentally organized way of thinking. It is a big task to teach your children these concepts because they are not only important to their early years, but also have a great effect on their schooling and how they function as adults. Taking some time out to find activities and methods to foster your child’s learning, like big and little worksheets, is a small price to pay for a big return in the future.

How to Teach the Large and Small Concept in Everyday Life

  • Play with sorting and stacking toys – Sorting and stacking toys are a great way to teach big and small as they won’t fit properly together if they aren’t arranged properly by size.
  • Use Real life experiences – Use the words “Big and Small” in everyday situations. Go out on a walk and talk about how big the trees are compared to the small birds. Using the words in context will help your children to gain understanding of the concept.
  • Sort household items – Hunt around your home for items that are big and small and then help your children sort them by size.
  • Use pictures– Once your child gains understanding of the concept with real objects, move onto looking at pictures to identify size difference. Just make sure it’s somewhat obvious what is big and what is small to the child.
  • Use printables and worksheets – Big and small printables and worksheets are a great way to teach your children the big and small concept. Work with them to identify the differences.

Big and Little Worksheets:

Big and Little: Dinosaurs – A cute group of big and little worksheets using dinosaurs. Boys love dinosaurs, as do many girls!

Included in this group of printables are:

  • Big and Little Dinosaurs
  • Big and Little Circle Activity
  • Big and Little Reference Sheet

Big and Little: 3 Little Pigs – Let the kids learn the differences between big and little using some of their favorite story time characters.

Included in this group of printables are:

  • Big and Little – choose one
  • Big and Little – Circle
  • Reference Sheet

Large and Small Worksheets – Kids practice the concept of big and little through matching, drawing and identifying which item on a page is the biggest or smallest.

Included in this group of printables are:

  • Big and Small Circle One
  • Big and Small Matching
  • Smaller Worksheet
  • Smallest Worksheet
  • Bigger Worksheet
  • Biggest Worksheet

Other Big and Little Worksheets

  • Large and Small Comparison Worksheets – A coloring sheet that asks children to identify which picture is large and which is small. Four different printables.
  • Find Big and Small – Find and color the big animal in each section. Circle the small animal.
  • Find the Biggest – Color the biggest item in each row.
  • Find the Smallest – Color the smallest item in each row.
  • Draw Bigger – Name the shape and draw a bigger one.
  • Big and Small – Draw a line from the small item to the matching big item.
  • Draw Smaller – Name the shape and draw a smaller one.
These free printable big and little worksheets will help you to re-enforce this concept to your preschool children!
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About Kelli Miller

My husband (Ricky) of 18 years, our three wild and wonderfully different boys, six totally spoiled little dogs, 3 wild cats, and I live at Miller Manor - surrounded by hundreds of acres of farmland, in a small town on the coast of Southern Alabama.

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  1. APK APPS says

    August 30, 2018 at 7:05 am

    Thank you for linking this post to After School Link Up!

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  2. samir says

    August 21, 2018 at 4:53 am

    Thank you
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  3. iGameMom says

    March 11, 2014 at 5:04 pm

    What a fun set of printables. Pinned to my free online learning resource board.

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  4. Jill says

    March 10, 2014 at 7:05 am

    Big and Little really is a fun concept for kids to learn. Thank you for sharing this great resource!
    Thank you for stopping by the Thoughtful Spot Weekly Blog Hop this week. We hope to see you drop by our neck of the woods next week!

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  5. Natalie AfterschoolForSmartyPants says

    March 6, 2014 at 6:31 pm

    Thank you for linking this post to After School Link Up!

    Reply
  6. Jill says

    September 21, 2013 at 12:59 pm

    Teaching the difference between big and small is fun with these activities. Thank you for linking up this week to the Thoughtful Spot Weekly Blog Hop 🙂

    Reply

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