Preschool Activity-Scissor Skills and Fine Motor Skills

Scissor Skills and Fine Motor Skills Preschool Goal:

 •can use hands, wrists, and fingers to reach, grasp, and manipulate small objects and tools.

 •child can cut out shapes and is turning the paper.

 Every child will acquire the fine-motor skills needed for handwriting in a different time table. The more your preschool child uses her fingers in activities that help to strengthen their hand coordination, the sooner they will master these skills.

Fine Motor and Scissor Skills Fine motor skills are our ability to use our hands, wrists, and fingers to reach, grasp, and manipulate small objects and tools. Scissor Skills To develop and strengthen the fine motor muscles that are needed to manipulate a pencil, encourage preschool children to practice their cutting skills.

cutting skills 1: straight lines

cutting skills 2 : straight lines dotted



 

cutting skills 3 :wavy lines

  

cutting skills 4 : wavy lines



cutting skills 5 : cutting triangles

cutting skills 6 : cutting circles




cutting skills 7 : cutting flowers



more difficult shapes

 Learn about children's development of scissor skills and fine motor skills:

 Development of Scissor Skills by Tara Calder, OTR/L It is important to remember that children will develop fine motor skills and scissor skills at different rates. Choose the skill stage that matches your child’s development and be patient but at the same time, make sure to reinforce the proper hand/scissor position.

Tip: Teaching the skills with your hand over your child’s cutting hand can help and speed up the learning process. The following cutting skills are arranged sequentially from the simplest stage to the most complex.