Practice Cutting Skills with Scissor Skills Activities - Fine Motor Boxes & Bins

Are your kids frustrated when they try to use scissors? Do you need a motivating way to help them get cutting practice and build scissor skills? These easy to prep printables will help you teach your kids how to use scissors. The leveled activities provide fun and motivating cutting practice so your kids can build confidence as they develop better scissor skills.

The leveled scissor skills practice printables provide year-round practice for kids with different abilities and give them an opportunity to work on their scissor grip, practice snipping, practice cutting on straight lines, and practice cutting on more complex lines.

You can rest knowing that you have easy-to-prep scissor practice activities for the whole year. The set includes many themes and holidays (for spring, summer, fall, and winter).

Perfect for your preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, OT, occupational therapy, SPED classroom, or at-home learning.

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✅ SAVE TIME! 

• These cutting skills practice activities are easy to prep.
• The set includes consistent scissor skills practice for the whole year.

✅ VERSATILE! - 

• Includes cutting practice printables for all seasons of the year
• Use for fine motor task boxes, morning work bins, fine motor centers, take-home activities, etc.

✅ EASY TO DIFFERENTIATE! - Many opportunities to adapt for different levels of learners.

✅ KEEPS KIDS ENGAGED! 

• Kids enjoy the fun cutting activities.
• "They had so much fun cutting that they didn’t realize that they were learning!!"
• 15 themes with different keep kids from getting bored

✅ BUILD SKILLS IN A FUN WAY - The printables give you a play-based way to improve the skills needed for using scissors. Your children will:

• Get experience using cutting tools
• Strengthen finger and hand muscles needed to open and close scissors
• Develop bilateral coordination

➡️ THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN THE SCISSOR SKILLS ACTIVITY SET:

The set includes 3 different leveled cutting activities in 15 different themes.

Cutting Practice Snip Sheets 

• 1 page of snip sheets for each theme  
• Teach kids how to make simple snips on a short, straight line
• Perfect for beginning cutters
• Give kids the opportunity to work on proper scissor grip

Cutting Practice Snip Strips

• 1 page of cutting strips for each theme
• Straight line cutting practice
• Kids get the satisfaction of cutting through strips and cutting the images apart.
• You can use the cutting practice strips as a simple cutting and pasting activity.

Cutting Paths for Scissor Skills Practice

• 4 levels of cutting lines or paths for each theme
• Kids will learn how to cut on a long line that requires multiple cuts and moving the scissors along the path.
• Lines progress from:
  • simple straight line cutting practice
  • simple curved line cutting practice
  • more complex curved line cutting practice
  • zig-zag line cutting practice practice

➡️ THESE THEMES ARE INCLUDED IN THE FINE MOTOR CUTTING PRACTICE SET:

Winter Scissor Skills Activities - The set includes these themes for winter:  

• Winter (penguins, polar bears, snow, hot chocolate, snowmen)
• Christmas 
• Valentine’s Day

Spring Scissor Skills Activities - The set includes these spring themes:

• St. Patrick’s Day
• Bugs and Insects
• Flowers and Gardens

Summer Scissor Skills Activities - The set includes these summer themes:

• Cookout
• Ocean

Fall Scissor Skills Activities - The set includes these fall themes:

• School Supplies
• Halloween
• Fall (acorns, pumpkins, squirrels, leaves, sunflowers)

Scissor Skills for Any Time of Year - These fun themes can be used any time of year.

• Space
• Transportation
• Fruit
• Construction

➡️ WHO CAN USE THIS FINE MOTOR ACTIVITY FOR CUTTING PRACTICE?

This product is appropriate for

• preschool
• pre-k, kindergarten
• special education
• homeschool classroom
• occupational therapy

❓ DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS?

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WHAT ARE TEACHERS SAYING ABOUT THESE CUTTING ACTIVITIES?

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "What an awesome way to make scissor skills more exciting and engaging. Building language skills while cutting practice is a plus too!!" -Charity A.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I have a sensory/fine motor center for my pre-k class. This time I placed the cutting activities inside. The students couldn’t wait to go there! They had so much fun cutting that they didn’t realize that they were learning!!?" -Deana Johnson

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Our kiddos love these cutting activities...especially the different themes and when printed on bright paper. We would definitely buy more themes if ever available!" Holley M.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “The cutting practice was very practical and had several skill levels to challenge everyone and help them to become better at cutting.  The pictures were really cute and seasonally fun!” - Melissa A. 

ADDITIONAL FINE MOTOR ACTIVITIES FOR PRESCHOOL & KINDERGARTEN

• Fine Motor Skills Activities Bundle
• Fine Motor Hole Punch Activities
• Fine Motor Skills Pincer Grasp Activities
• Fine Motor Skills Pre-writing Tracing Practice & Mazes
• Fine Motor Skills Cutting Practice Activities
• Fine Motor Crafts
• Cutting and Pasting Activities

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