A brief developmental guide for teaching scissor skills developed by a pediatric occupational therapist.

Cutting with scissors should be fun! Teachers, parents, and therapists are responsible for providing supportive and positive learning experiences for acquiring new skills. Sometimes, children are presented with cutting activities that might be too challenging; they get frustrated and quickly lose interest in learning.

This guide will assist the educator in designing developmentally appropriate scissor-related activities. Assess your child's scissor skill readiness and implement fun tasks to promote further scissor skills development. Understand developmental stages and learn the importance of scissor skills in early childhood.

Assess each child following a helpful skill checklist. Effortless and personalized data and progress collection checklists are included. A pre-scissor checklist for younger learners is designed to assess and track readiness levels. A scissor checklist is intended to determine and record the progression of specific scissor skills.

Attached are easily accessible, fun scissor activity ideas. For more information, please refer to the first page image; each section represents one page. This is concise and clear information. This is a downloadable (PDF) product consisting of 10 pages.