Description
This Cutting Skills Packet was created to support distance learning through engagement with the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden’s Home Safari Program.
Included in this cutting packet you’ll find more than ten worksheets 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 **
- 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!
- Pages 11-15 can also be used with a writing utensil (colored pencil, crayon, etc), instead of with scissors! Those pages have multiple uses to target visual motor skills!
- 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.
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.
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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