Hey Teachers and Families! Today’s teaching resource is perfect to work on fine motor skills. This pack of 28 different worksheets is perfect to work with scissors. Developing fine motor skills with scissors will help to build the muscles in your child’s hands and fingers, will improve hand-eye coordination and will increase bilateral coordination.
These activities fit perfectly with kids with a range of ages between 3 and 5 years old. At this age, children learn to cut and paste and they are starting to strengthen their hand muscles because they need to work on fine motor skills to be ready for later activities, such as writing.
We recommend you to use scissors with a blunt point, but that are sharp enough to cut and not merely fold the paper. Appart from using a safe material it is very important to tell some rules and to repeat them again and again because safety is super important and working with scissors can be dangerous.
If your child or students are still very young and you’re worried about them using scissors that could cut them, here’s a link to some scissors that are perfect for toddlers. These scissors have blunt tips for safety, making them secure and reliable. They are comfortable, durable, and long-lasting.
What are the benefits of activities with scissors?
The first and most important benefit is the increase of fine motor skills abilities. The advantages are:
- Improvement of the ability to hold objects: pencils, markers, a toothbrush, etc.
- Development of creativity and artistic skills.
- Good progress of the motor coordination.
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