Using scissors is an important skill for preschoolers and kindergarteners to master. Give your child plenty of practice and download these free Fall harvest cutting strips.
One of my favorite ways to let kids practice these skills is by printing and providing ample cutting strips. I let my students use them whenever the urge to cut strikes.
My set of fall cutting strips offers 5 pages of strips so you’ll get 20 varieties to offer your kids!
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Why Are Cutting Strips Useful?
Scissor skills need to be taught to your child; it takes a lot of practice for their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination to work together and cut appropriately.
Ensure that your students are holding the paper with their non-dominant hand, thumb facing up, and the dominant hand properly holding the scissors with thumb also pointing up.
Unfortunately, most kids either experiment by cutting the wrong thing, or they only cut in school. Kids need more exposure than preschool.
So try to make cutting just a regular part of their lives!
These fall cutting strips are great for cutting on lines and learning how to move their hands in different directions!
Related: Teach Scissor Skills by Cutting Play-Doh
How to Set-Up Fall Cutting & Tracing Strips
These strips can be used for more than cutting as well!
Tracing strips are great way to practice prewriting skills. Aside from using markers or crayons, here are some other ways to trace these cutting strips.
- Play-Doh – Roll it out and place along the dotted lines
- Finger Paint – Dip pointer finger in paint and trace the line with the finger.
- Fall Stamps – Have students dot the stamps along the lines.
- Dot Markers – Dot the markers along the line.
- Wiki Stix – Place wiki stix along the dotted line.
- Pipe Cleaners – Place pipe cleaners along the dotted line.
- Beads – Place beads in a line.
All you have to do is print out and separate the cutting strips.
Your child could cut and separate them, but their goal is to cut on the dotted line. So, I prefer to separate them and leave the strips in a basket.
However, if you have older kids, give them the sheet and let them cut their own strips!
Using Fall Tracing & Cutting Strips
Once you set up the strips, it’s time to use them! Here are the two ways to use cutting and tracing strips.
If you want to use the strips for tracing, print them out and consider laminating them.
Laminating them allows you to use them time after time with dry erase markers, dot markers, or Play-Doh.
Don’t waste paper when tracing strips can easily be reused! Cutting strips, on the other hand, are a one-time-use item.
Print them out and show your child how to cut along the dotted lines. Make sure you give your child a pair of kid-friendly scissors for safety purposes as well.
Grab Your Free Fall Cutting Strips Here!
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Also, check out more Fall Printables available in my shop here.
I hope your children enjoy these fall cutting strips as much as my kids and students do!
