Scissor Skill Activity for Preschoolers

As a wise robot once said: “Bleep...Bloop”, which simply translates to ‘Snip snip...scissors beats paper’. This fun robot activity helps children to practice cutting along the lines and while switching directions. The skills used for this task are essential for those needed to complete everyday tasks. So, whether you have your very own robot for daily chores or not, this activity is will help guide the way. You never know, maybe one day your child could be using these to build their very own robot!

MATERIALS:
- Paper / card
- Marker
- Stickers (here we have used robot stickers)
- Scissors

INSTRUCTIONS:
(1) Cut strips of card or paper, big enough for your child to hold.
(2) Using one strip of paper, place a sticker at the top of one side.
(3) Draw dashed lines using the pen. For beginners, draw a straight line from the sticker to the bottom of the paper. To adapt this, you can draw lines that curve or zigzag.
(4) Taking your scissors, place another small sticker (we used a robots arm) on top of the straight blade. When you begin cutting it should look like your scissors are trying to catch the sticker at the end of the line.
(5) Now let your children use the scissors to catch the robot!