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Cutting Snowflakes from Coffee Filters

Sweet Pea is 4 years old.

From: I found these easy coffee filter snowflakes at Art for Little Hands.

Material:

Coffee Filters. (You can use plain paper, but the coffee filters are a great size and shape for this activity.) Scissors. (Maped Koopy Scissors are our favorite.) Glitter Glue (optional).

Procedure:

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Thanksgiving Feather Cutting

Sweet Pea is 43 months old.

From: I observed Sweet Pea doing this activity in her preschool class.

Prerequisite: If your tot hasn’t worked with scissors before, I suggest you try the Introduction to Scissors – Cutting Play-doh activity first.

Material:

Feather Cutting worksheet (This file is a .pdf files and requires […]


My First Book of Cutting from Kumon

Sweet Pea is 34 months old.

From: We have had great luck with Kumon’s “My First” series of books, so I decided to order Kumon’s My First Book of Cutting from Amazon.

Prerequisite: If your tot hasn’t worked with scissors before, I suggest you try the Introduction to Scissors – Cutting Play-doh activity […]


Introduction to Scissors – Cutting Play-doh

Sweet Pea is 29 months old.

From: This activity was from the book First Art by MaryAnn F. Kohl.

Material:

Plastic safety scissors or training scissors. (I found our training scissors in the “Back-to-School” section at Target, but I don’t think they carry them during the rest of the year.) Play-doh (or […]