Picture sorting worksheets for preschool and kindergarten. Children decide which things go together, find the one that does not belong, and count how many are in each group. One sheet is a cut and glue sort.
Circle all the animals, all the food, and all the toys in three mixed sets.
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Six rows of four pictures. Cross out the one that does not go with the others.
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Twelve mixed pictures. Sort them into fruit, animals and toys, and write how many of each.
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Cut out eight pictures and glue each one under Animals or Food.
Download PDFSorting means putting things into groups by something they share. It looks simple, but it asks a child to ignore most of what they see and attend to one feature: this is an animal, that is something to eat. That same skill is behind reading graphs, comparing amounts and telling shapes apart later on.
Circle the Group and Which One Does Not Belong? practice sorting by kind. The second is a good one to talk through, because children often give a reason nobody expected, and a sensible reason deserves credit even when it is not the one in the answer key.
Big and Small sorts by size, where every picture in the row is the same thing. Sort and Count joins sorting to counting, which is the kindergarten standard: sort objects into groups and say how many are in each.
Cut and Sort is the hands-on one. Cutting and gluing takes longer than circling, and that is the point for small hands. Every worksheet has an answer key on its second page. More sets are on the kindergarten math page.