Description
This Cutting Skills Packet was created to support distance learning through engagement with the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden’s Home Safari Program. In includes worksheets that incorporate information about penguins (such as what they eat), varying amounts of visual supports (depending on your student’s needs), and 11 pages that address the skills of cutting big, medium, and small squares, as well as cutting 90-degree angles/corners outside the context of a square.
** TIPS FOR USE **
- Until further mastery, your student 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! When I don’t have the option for cardstock readily available, I keep a stapler at my therapy table and quickly staple the pages to pieces of construction paper. The construction paper is at least thicker than regular copy paper!
- These activities can be easily graded down, by adding visual cues of your own such as bolding 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.
- This packet can also be used with a writing utensil (colored pencil, crayon, etc), instead of with scissors! They have multiple uses for targeting visual motor skills.
As a school-based occupational therapist, I provide a list of cutting tips at the beginning of the cutting packet to ensure the students you work with develop a correct scissor grasp and proper cutting skills that will support the development of their visual motor skills.
Please, please, please… let me know what you think! I’d love your feedback. Also, please share pictures of your children’s learning-in-action by tagging @ColorfullyEnthused and using the hashtag #thecolorfullyenthusedOT *
* DO NOT SHARE COPIES OR ATTACHMENTS OF THESE WORKSHEETS WITH FRIENDS, FAMILY, OR COWORKERS *
Thank you and enjoy!
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