Category: Scissor Skills

Giant Scarecrow

9/29/2020

This is one of our favorite fall craft projects to make!! We do it over a span of two to three days but you can adjust it to fit the needs of your early learners. We use large sheets of construction paper (usually sold right next to the regular sized construction paper) but if you do not want to make giant scarecrows you can scale the project down to make smaller ones.

You can either have the pieces already cut out for younger children to put together or have guide pieces set out for the children to use as a reference for cutting their scarecrow pieces.

You will need to have a head ... hat ... pants ... shirt body ... sleeves ... straw ... eyes and a nose. You will also need to have various colors of tissue paper that has been cut or torn into squares.

Once all of the pieces have been cut out it is time to put them all together. You can put them together any way you wish but I found that we had the most success starting with the head and working our way down.

The hat gets glued at the very top of the head and the shirt body on top of the bottom of the head. You want to make sure to leave enough room to make a face on the head.

The sleeves the next to get glued on and they should be glued behind the shirt body. The sleeves can be angled in any direction.

The pants are glued under the bottom of the shirt. We used three inch long strips of yellow paper glued to the bottom of the hat ... arms ... and legs to represent straw.

We glued the eyes and nose on the scarecrow head and also drew a mouth with a marker. The last step was to glue the tissue paper squares on the scarecrow.

You can see a video of this project below:

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Paper Plate Ladybug

7/6/2020

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Paper Plate Ladybug Craft For Preschool and Kindergarten

We made paper plate ladybugs this week and they turned out super cute. We did this project over a two day period to make sure we had enough time for the paint to dry.

To make the lady you will need red paint ... glue ... scissors ... black construction paper ... wiggles eyes ... and paper plates. We used the thicker chinette brand for our paper plates.

ladybug paper plate craft for preschool and kindergarten

The first step is to paint the back of the paper plates red. You can do this by using a paint and paint brush or a paint dauber. After we painted the plates we let them dry for the rest of the day.

We cut head shapes out of black construction paper and glued them on to the bottom of the paper plates.

The next step was to glue wiggle eyes on the heads. If you do not have wiggle eyes a different color of construction paper such as yellow or blue cut into small circles will work fine.

paper plate ladybug for preschool and kindergarten

We cut circle shapes out of black construction paper and glue them on to the painted paper plate. You can put as many or as little spots on the ladybugs as you want.

We cut black construction paper into 3-4 inch lengths and folded them back and forth (accordion style) for the legs. We glued three on each side of the paper plate.

We hung our ladybugs up around the room. The children got lots of fine motor practice through the use of scissors and gluing pieces together.

You can see a video of this project below:

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Snowman Alphabet Cut and Pate

1/13/2020

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snowman alpha cut and paste for preschool and kindergarten

The free membership printable this week is a snowman alphabet cut and paste for letter recognition and scissor skills. I printed the patterns and cut the snowman letter strips out and the children cut the letter squares out.

snowman alphabet cut and glue for preschool and kindergarten

In this activity children pick a snowman letter strip and find the matching letter squares. They can either glue or place them in the blank squares on each strip. I have made the snowman strips with one ... two ... and three blank squares. I have also included black and white as well as color versions.

snowman alphabet cute and paste for preschool and kindergarten

You can grab the patterns below for free until Sunday January 19th ... after that date they will only be available in the member's section which is also where I have added the snowman number cut and paste.

snowman alphabet cut and paste

snowman number cut and paste for preschool and kindergarten

snowman cut and paste added to the member's section

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Heart Cutting Strips

2/4/2019

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heart cutting strips for preschool and kindergarten

The free membership printable this week is heart cutting strips for fine motor develpemnt. I printed the patterns on both regular and cardstock paper and cut them out.

In this activity children cut across the lines on each strip. I have made the strips with both black and white as well as color hearts. You can also do counting and sorting activities with the hearts after cutting.

You can grab the patterns below for free until Sunday February 10th ... after that date they will only be available in the member's section which is also where I have added heart writing skills.

heart cutting strips

heart writing skills for preschool and kindergarten

heart writing skills added to the members section

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Number Cut and Glue Sheets

5/21/2018

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number cut and glue for preschool and kindergarten

The free membership printable this week is Number Cut and Glue Sheets for number recognition ... fine motor and scissor skills. I printed the sheets on paper and set them out with scissors and glue sticks.

I made the cut and glue sheets in color and black and white as well as with blank squares on number guided squares. Children cut along the line on each sheet ... cut the squares out and then glue them in order in the boxes at the top of each sheet. I have included numbers 1-30.

You can grab the patterns below for free until Sunday May 27th ... after that date they will only be available in the member's section which is also where I have added Alphabet Cut and Glue.

number cut and glue

alphabet cut and glue for preschool and kindergarten

alphabet cut and glue added to the member's section

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Flower Cutting Strips

5/3/2018

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flower cutting strips fine motor activity for preschool and kindergarten

I made a set of flower themed cutting strips for the children to work on their scissor and fine motor skills. They can be printed on both cardstock and regular paper.

I have also included both black and white and color cutting strips so you have a choice of which to use with your early learners.

flower cutting strips for preschool and kindergarten

In this activity children cut along the lines on each strip ... we also did flower sorting by putting the same cut flowers together.

flower cutting strips

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