Cutting Squares and Corners with Hearts & Penguins

Description

Attached you’ll find 11 pages that address the following skills:

• Cutting big, medium, and small squares
• Cutting 90-degree angles/corners, outside of the context of a square

Pages have varying amount of visual cues, depending on your child(ren)’s needs.

** TIPS FOR USE **

1. Until further mastery, your child will have better success if pages are printed on cardstock. If you don’t have time to change out the paper or don’t have access to cardstock, no problem! I keep a stapler at my therapy table and quickly staple the pages to pieces of construction paper (when I don’t have cardstock nearby). The construction paper is at least thicker than regular copy paper!
2. Pages 9-13 can also be used with a writing utensil (colored pencil, crayon, etc), instead of with scissors! Those pages have multiple uses to target multiple skills!
3. These activities can be easily graded down, by adding visual cues of your own such as boldening the dotted lines with highlighters or markers to increase the student’s visual attention and therefore precision, and/or to widen the margin of error – as can be seen in images I post on my Instagram and Facebook accounts. Be sure to connect with me, to see these pages in action!

As a school-based occupational therapist, I provide a list of cutting tips at the beginning of the cutting packet to ensure the child(ren) you work with develop a correct scissor grasp and proper cutting skills that will support the development of their visual motor skills.

Students should master the skills in Cutting Lines with Hearts & Penguins prior to attempting these activities.

This cutting packet features a hearts & penguins theme. In my experience in working with preschoolers, their worksheets must be engaging in order to optimize their attention to a given task. I enjoyed regularly making new worksheets according to the given season /holiday, and now I’m sharing those with you! I hope that you have as much fun with them as I have!

ENJOY! Please provide me with your feedback.