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Shamrock Scissor Skills Projects

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

We did a project like this with our three year old friend when we were babysitting -- he had lots of fun -- it was cute how hard he concentrated on his scissors.

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:

bulletchildren's scissors
bulletconstruction paper -- you can prechoose the color or let the kids pick their own
bulletglue
bulletpaper and printer

Directions:

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

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bulletshow the child how to hold their scissors
 
bulletlet 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


   

bulletEither 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.   
   
bulletLet the child fill the template with the snipped pieces -- don't worry that they go over the lines
  
bulletLet dry
  
bulletADULT:  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)
 

 

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Close the template window after printing to return to this screen. 
    

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Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers). 

 

Shamrock Template

 

 

Printable Version of these instructions