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Cutting skills as part of fine motor skills, are extremely important for young children to develop.
“Learning how to use scissors plays an important role in developing the fine motor skills young children need in order to hold pencils and crayons.” – Vanessa (Pre-K Pages)
There are lots of different ways to practice cutting skills, but making it fun is key. Use a theme and you will instantly have the children’s interest.
Here are the top 10 Christmas themed cutting skills activities:
Draw up Christmas trees and let the kids cut it out to make their own pictures.
A Christmas cutting tray for preschoolers is a good invitation to cut idea and open-ended too!
Kid-made sparkly ornaments are great to make AND it can be used to bring some sparkle to your tree.
Cutting Christmas shapes is fun too. Use it for making personal Christmas cards, clever!
Recycle cards and cut it up like puzzles, great use for old cards and a frugal way to make puzzles.
Practice cutting skills while making kid-made gift tags, perfect for friends or family gifts!
Make this Snowman or Snowflake angels and work on cutting skills while making a cute craft.
This straw Christmas tree is another fun idea using straws. Or, make a pop-up card that looks like a Christmas tree when opened up, lovely!
Using themed ideas like these are fun and the children don’t even realize they are practicing their cutting skills, win!
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Malai Kids says
I love the idea of cutting Christmas trees with scissors because they can do it over and over by mashing the pieces back together. My 3 year old wants to be like his older brothers when they are cutting out paper and this will be a great way for him to learn. Thanks for sharing.
Naomi Erlich says
What fun ideas for little ones. I think that looks like a great afternoon project to get in the Christmas spirit! Thanks for sharing.
Liza Ray says
Oh I love these so much! It’s so fun seeing their perspective and creative side! My little girl loves to craft, especially around the holidays. We would have fun making this together.
Carla says
Cute! That straw Christmas tree might be my favorite!