Cut the vines and free the toy! This a fun scissor skills activity for preschoolers to practice cutting. Preschoolers love using scissors, so let’s give them constructive opportunities to practice cutting. I told my 3 year old son that the dinosaur was trapped in the vines and that he had to save him! I gave him scissors and told him to carefully cut the vines off and free the dinosaur. He really enjoyed this scissor skills activity and took his job of freeing the dino so seriously!
To do this activity you will need green construction paper, tape, safety scissors, and a plastic toy that won’t get damaged from scissors.
1. First cut the green construction paper into strips to be the vines. Mine were roughly 1/2 inch wide.
2. Wrap the vines loosely around the plastic toy and tape the ends of the vines hold them in place. I used a dinosaur because I like that it had legs and a tail that I could wrap the vine around.
3. Have your preschooler free the toy from the vines by cutting the vines off!
Yay, the toy is free! Great job using scissors!
Another scissor skills activity that I did with my son was a Paper Plate Hedgehog Craft. He got to use his scissors and cut the plate to the make the hedgehog’s quills! This craft was easy to pull together, but tons of fun.