We were stuck inside most of the day today so we thought we would bring some summer fun into the classroom! During small groups today the children took to the pools and created their own water by cutting small strips of various colors of blue construction paper. It was a HIT! The children have mastered scissor safety and were very responsible with the way in which they controlled the scissors while in the pools to keep themselves and their friends safe. Way to go everyone!
Nice Work Will!
We practiced our scissor skills today using our yummy smelling gingerbread play-dough. It’s important to remember to keep the thumb pointing up to the sky, not letting our hands turn in upside down. Scissor activities help develop the small muscles in your child’s hand that are important for writing. Cutting letters out of magazines is a great activity to do at home on a cold winter evening. Add a glue stick and some construction paper stapled together and you have everything you need to make your own letter book! Have fun!
Great Job, Logan!
Here are some of our Early 3’s children working hard at their scissor skills! They are cutting their paper into little pieces and sorting the scraps by color. They are really coming a long way with their scissors!
scissor skills and shape sorting
The Preschool class had a great time today working together to make our class pumpkin and bat, but it was no easy task! We had one very large white pumpkin and an oversized white bat that needed coloring in, however we didn’t use crayons, markers, or paint for this job! We got out our scissor and started snipping away at strips of orange and black paper. Each time we made a snip with our scissors we were able to add a small piece of color to our pumpkin and bat. Leaving a patch of white was out of the question, so the preschoolers put their developing fine motor skills to the test and worked very hard at getting the color just right. The PreK class was happy to help in finishing up during their afternoon class. It was a TEAM effort by all and we had a great time making them!
supervised scissor practice is key to developing important fine motor skills
Today we continued to practice our scissors skills with our happy face jack-o-lanterns. The preschoolers were given a strip of orange card stock with six pumpkins to snip out. We talked about how to safely hold our scissors, where our fingers and thumbs should be positioned while we’re cutting, and how to effectively “open and close” our hands to manuever our scissors just right in order to make a clean cut. We practice our scissor skills regularly with many different cutting materials to keep the task fun and exciting. When the students were finished cutting out their happy jack-O-lanterns we glued them into their green pumpkin patches. Great development with such a simple activity!
Today we practiced our developing scissor skills in Ms. Katie’s straw cutting/sorting activity. The children had a ball cutting small bits of drinking straws and watching them shoot across the table…we didn’t know practicing our scissor skills could be so much fun! Cutting is a wonderful activity to develop the small muscles in your child’s hand which is essential for writing. For other small muscle activities just click the picture!
For more small muscle development skills activities click the picture above.
Creative Tots has specialized in the private education of both toddlers and preschool age children for over 15 years. We began in the heart of Madeira and now also have a new Mason location. We are specifically designed to focus on early childhood development for children ages 18 months to 5 years.
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