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    Last Modified: May 25, 2022 by Tara Ziegmont 4 Comments

    Scissor Practice for 2-year-olds

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    Scissor Practice for 2-year-oldsPin

    Do all 2-year-olds have an obsession with scissors? Allie sure does, and I remember Grace having one at 2, too.

    Every time Allie walks through the dining room (where her special yellow scissors are), she says, I cut paper? I want to cut with scissors.

    She once cut some contracts in half, but fortunately, keeping the scissors out of her reach has prevented much collateral damage.

    She has been erratically cutting paper for a few weeks, so I wanted to see how well she could use the scissors.

    Materials

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    I forgot half of the materials in my photo. Sorry.

    • Kid scissors (obviously)
    • Cardstock or craft foam in two colors (because it's stiffer and has less tendency to flop around than regular paper)
    • Marker
    • Glue

    This was so easy; I almost didn't write this blog post. But, I thought it might be helpful to someone, so I went ahead and did it.

    1. Draw a line dividing the paper in half. It doesn't matter whether you make hot dog sections (long and skinny) or hamburger (short and fat) halves.

    Cutting with scissors in a straight linePin

    2. Help your kiddo to cut along the straight line. See those fingernails? Grace painted them for her before I woke up one morning. (!!!)

    A small child sitting at a tablePin

    3. Draw more straight lines, to make squares, rectangles, and triangles. Be sure to narrate the shapes as you help your little one to cut them. Also talk about bigger and smaller shapes.

    A small child cutting along a linePin

    4. Arrange the shapes (as she one cut them - don't even them up or trim the edges!) into something on a piece of paper. I talked Allie into making a fish. I laid out a square and a couple of triangles, and I helped her to glue them down. She had a hard time getting any glue to come out of the bottle.

    A little girl with a bottle of gluePin

    5. Press, press the shapes down.

    A small child gluing blue paper to orange paperPin

    6. Even though my fish was finished, Allie was not finished. She wanted to keep gluing shapes onto the paper. I really wanted to be done and photograph my fish made of shapes, but I {reluctantly} went along with her vision.

    A little girl gluing a blue collage onto orange paperPin

    7. When she said we were finished, I asked her where the fish's face should go. She pointed and said eyes and mouf and teef, so I put them where she wanted. She was happy.

    A close up of a collagePin

    Here's the simple little fish I was imagining when we started. Maybe next time.

    A close up of a fish collagePin

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    1. Faigie says

      September 10, 2013 at 9:54 pm

      A 2 yr old? that's pretty good. My 2 yr old grandson cannot get the swing of cutting yet

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      • Tara Ziegmont says

        September 10, 2013 at 10:14 pm

        She just picked the scissors up one day and started cutting. I think every child gets it at her own pace. 🙂

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    2. Brianna says

      September 21, 2014 at 10:08 pm

      my daughter who just turned two loves her new scissors. Gonna try an activity where I draw a line and just have her attempt to cut through it. Thanks 🙂

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    3. Lori Thomasson says

      August 13, 2020 at 6:17 am

      Too cute! Nope, those projects never turn out quite how we envision them do they? But as long as they're happy.

      Reply

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