DLTK's Holiday Crafts for Kids
Thanksgiving Scissor Skills Projects

This is a great Thanksgiving project to make when you are first introducing a child to scissors.  It requires single "snips" only.

You can make this appropriate for older children (kindergarten and up) by asking them to fill their templates with a particular type of shape (squares, rectangles, triangles, polygons, etc).

Materials:

• children's scissors,
• construction paper -- you can pre-choose the color or let the kids pick their own
• glue
• paper and printer

Instructions:

• ADULT:  print template of choice or make your own.
• ADULT:  Cut the construction paper into long, one inch wide strips (you can cut fast, they don't have to be perfect)

ex: 
 

• Show the child how to hold and safely use their scissors.
• Let the child snip off pieces from the strips of construction paper...  As the children get older, you can ask them to try to snip perfect squares, but to begin with, just let them snip away

• Either squeeze the glue onto the template for the child or squeeze some into a margarine container lid and give the child a q-tip or popsicle stick to spread the glue themselves.
• Let the child fill the template with the snipped pieces -- don't worry that they go over the lines.
• Let dry.
• ADULT:  cut out the shape along the dark line (you should be able to turn the page over and see the dark black line through the back of the paper)

Templates:

• After printing, close the template window to return to the main page.
• If the template doesn’t fit on one page, adjust your printer margins:
  • In most browsers: Print → More settings → Margins → Minimum
  • Or use Page Setup / Printer Setup in your printer dialog

Drumstick Template

Pumpkin Template