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Classifying Sizes with Goldilocks & the Three Bears

By Karen Cox | Affiliate Disclosure | Filed Under: Fairy Tales Theme, Sizes & Measuring

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This Classifying Sizes activity will help your students practice comparing small and large sizes for math skills. This activity goes with the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears, or you can use it as a stand alone activity. Find more Fairy Tale activities here.

Goldilocks & the Three Bears: Classifying Sizes Activity

The Goldilocks story is perfect for introducing size concepts to children. In the book, you will find a small bear, a medium bear, and a large bear. The bears have small, medium, and large voices as well as different sizes of bowls, chairs, and beds in their house.

To Prepare the Activity:

Download and print out the pictures (download link below). Cut the cards apart. Place the “Small Sizes” and “Big Sizes” cards at the top of a pocket chart. You can also glue these to a piece of chart paper if you want to make a chart to save and hang on the wall.

This printable includes both full color cards and blackline cards. These are in the same file, so make sure you set your printer to only print the pages you want. To print the color cards, set the printer to print pages 2-6. To print the blackline cards, set the printer to print pages 7-11.

Goldilocks & the Three Bears: Classifying Sizes Activity

How To Do the Activity:

Shuffle the picture cards, and draw one from the stack. Ask children to name the object and tell whether it is a small object (such as a strawberry) or a large object (such as a house). You can do this activity at large group or small group.

Download the Classifying Cards:

Download: Goldilocks Sizes Cards

Note: This is a free printable, just click to download.

I love to use fairy tales with preschool kids! If you’d like more, I have a pack of Goldilocks and the Three Bears activities available in my shop.

Goldilocks Preschool Pack

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  1. Barbara says

    October 5, 2016 at 3:43 am

    Very creative, sounds like a lot of fun for children. Can’t wait to try it with my nursery class. Thank you.

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  2. Julie Rich says

    October 5, 2016 at 7:28 am

    This is perfect timing because we are doing this story this week! Thank you so much or sharing your great ideas with us! I use many of them in my classroom.

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    • Karen Cox says

      October 5, 2016 at 7:33 pm

      Thanks, Julie!

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  3. Kathleen says

    October 5, 2016 at 7:44 am

    thanks. I love your activities

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  4. Tammy says

    October 5, 2016 at 10:56 am

    Hi Karen,
    I am having trouble downloading the latest freebie – Goldilocks size cards. Could you help please!
    Thanks for your great work!

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    • Karen Cox says

      October 5, 2016 at 7:33 pm

      Here’s my printing help page: https://www.prekinders.com/printing-problems/

      Reply
  5. Dahlia says

    October 14, 2016 at 6:15 am

    I have always enjoyed using your activities. This one also, is very creative. Thanks a lot.

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  6. Yvonne Ingram says

    October 16, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    Love these printout .

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  7. NIATALIE G FAULVE says

    May 1, 2018 at 4:45 pm

    Love the free printables. Thank you

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  8. Ashley says

    January 29, 2019 at 1:06 pm

    I am so thankful for fun, free, printables like this. Thank you!

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  9. Denise says

    February 2, 2021 at 10:41 am

    This is a perfect activity for my three year old class. We did this activity last week and they really enjoyed it.

    Thanks

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