Cutting Practice with Scissors

Do your students need more opportunities to strengthen their fine motor skills by cutting using scissors? Kindergarteners enter school with various levels of fine motor and scissor skills. The beginning of the year is the perfect time to help students strengthen and develop their cutting skills. Students need lots of opportunities to practice cutting with scissors and gluing. This resource has a variety of activities for your preschool or kindergarteners to practice cutting various lines, shapes and cutting guides. Print out the pages and keep them in a center, use with students individually or during whole group or small group time.

The various style of cutting pages included in this resource are:

• 2 pages of 5 practice items where students practice cutting ON and IN BETWEEN the lines
• 2 pages of 4 practice items where students practice cutting ON the lines
• 8 pages of 2 practice items where students practice cutting large shapes on the lines. The shapes also contain a picture of a school supply so students can color the picture as well.
• 8 pages of 6 practice items where students will cut out small shapes. The shapes also contain the name of the shape.
  • The shapes are square, rectangle, circle, triangle, heart, star, rhombus, hexagon.
• 10 pages of cutting and gluing art activity. The art pages are:
  • Fish: Students cut out and glue circle bubbles
  • Clown: Students cut out and glue oval balloons
  • Crown: Students cut out and glue a star, diamond, heart and circles
  • Cheese: Students cut out and glue circles
  • Duck: Students cut out and glue water waves
  • Flag: Students cut out the flag shape and circle.
  • Gift: Students cut out rectangles to complete the ribbons on the gift.
  • Helicopter: Students cut out and glue various shapes to complete the propeller.
  • Ice cream: Students cut out and glue the ice cream.
  • Jack-o-lantern: Students cut out and glue the face shapes to the pumpkin.

TIPS TO USE:

Print out the pages on white or colorful paper. Students will use the dot or scissor icon on the line to begin cutting with scissors. The first set of practice pages are great for individual use. Just print out and put it in your art center, or make a specific scissor practice center. The art pages are great to assess your students skills or use during a fun activity. A lot of the images can go well with books with the same theme!

Remember to create the opportunity for success! Students need a lot of practice with scissors and glue - activities like these can help students strengthen their fine motor skills and increase their knowledge of scissor skills and safety!