Preschool SCISSOR SKILLS Cutting Practice Handwriting Fine Motor Activities

LEVEL 1 Scissor Skills: Your preschoolers will love these alphabet themed cutting practice worksheets. The clear/concise cutting lines and stopping points make these scissor skill worksheets approved by both occupational therapists and preschool students. These cutting worksheets are designed for the beginner level student.

✏️ The handwriting/tracing portion of these worksheets are aligned with the Handwriting Without Tears® curriculum. This activity is optional, but it gives your more advanced students an additional task to complete.

These LEVEL 1 worksheets are designed in the same familiar format as the LEVEL 2 and LEVEL 3, but include different images making this a differentiated series you can use with your preschoolers throughout the entire year. Save $ and buy the BUNDLE!

Who should purchase this resource?

• PARENTS interested in helping their child learn at home
• Preschool TEACHERS beginning to teach the fundamentals of cutting/scissor skills
• OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS looking for quality cutting practice worksheets

These cutting practice worksheets will help your preschooler develop the essential fine motor skills needed to succeed with other tasks such as writing and drawing. This alphabet themed resource also makes a great warm up activity before diving in to your regular handwriting lesson.

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Why are scissor skills so important?

• Builds fine motor strength - Cutting allows a child to build the hand muscles using the open and close motion. These muscles are used for doing everyday things such as writing, drawing, brushing teeth, using a fork or spoon, and even getting dressed.
• Improve focus and attention - Cutting out shapes takes concentration and attention to details. These skills are necessary for success not only in the classroom, but in everyday life. The ability to hold focus is essential for reading books, listening to directions, and able to hold longer periods of sitting in a chair.
• Develop hand eye coordination - Cutting requires children to use their eyes and hands in unison. Hand-eye coordination is important for zipping a jacket or pants, eating with a fork or spoon, and catching/throwing balls.
• Increase bilateral coordination - When you are cutting, you use both sides of the body tat the same time while each hands performing its own task. The child must hold the paper with one hand while the other hand is opening and closing the scissors while moving in a forward direction to make the cut. Bilateral coordination is needed for tasks such as opening an envelope, zipping up a coat, or washing dishes.

If you are starting off the year with distance learning, these cutting worksheets are a great resource to send home to your students. When/if students return back to the classroom, it will be a seamless transition to resume their cutting practice. It's perfect for both distance learning and in class use.

Before becoming a teacher, I was a graphic designer for Disney (specializing in typography and layout). Many other cutting practice worksheets out there do not meet the appropriate size, scale, spacing, and proportions needed for success with proper fine motor skill development. For our youngest learners, the actual design of the worksheet is as important as the content. I designed these scissor skill worksheets to include straight lines in varied lengths with stopping points - ideal for children learning to cut paper.

Please check out some of my HANDWRITING products:

✏️ MY FIRST DAILY JOURNAL - trace, cut, and color with these seasonally themed fine motor activities designed for preschool and kindergarten students

✏️ MY FIRST WRITING WORKSHEETS - pre writing tracing worksheets

✏️ PRESCHOOL HANDWRITING: CAPITAL LETTERS and LOWERCASE LETTERS- The size, scale, and proportions of the letters are designed to set preschoolers up for ultimate success when learning to write for the first time.

✏️ ALPHABET HAT CRAFT - a NO mess easy and fun craft to celebrate the letter of the week. These hats feature an area to show off handwriting ability using the Handwriting Without Tears letter formation.

✏️ ALPHABET WALL CARDS - these Handwriting Without Tears® style wall cards will compliment any existing style or theme in your classroom.

✏️ A NOTE TO PARENTS - Educate your student's parents with the proper Handwriting Without Tears® style formations to work on at home.

✏️ For new writers - Practice and learn Handwriting Without Tears® style letter formations with these easy to use, no prep practice sheets. Set #1 includes a phonics activity with the letter practice. Set #2 is letter practice only (a great choice for students that are easily distracted or older students who need additional practice forming their letters).

• Capital Letter Practice Set #1 & Capital Letter Practice Set #2
• Lower Case Letter Practice Set #1 & Lower Case Letter Practice Set #2

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