Holiday Cutting Crafts for Kids

These holiday cutting craft pages are the perfect activity for youngsters who need to practice using scissors--or just to give mom a break! Featuring a jack-o-lantern, a turkey, and a Christmas tree. Just right click and save as (or click on the image to view it full size and then print).

 

Instructions: Have child color the shapes first, then cut, and finally assemble with glue. To view more FREE cutting activities, or to download a PDF file of 40 great cutting crafts for kids, click here.

School Cutting Activities

Here are some fun cutting activities to get your preschooler ready for kindergarten (to improve cutting skills and hand-eye coordination). Each page provides opportunities to practice coloring, cutting, and pasting--with a small picture of what the final product should look like to help children in assembly.

Just right click and save as (or click on the image to view it full size and then print).

Have child color the shapes first, then cut, and finally assemble with glue.

I also have an A-Z Cutting Crafts and Activities booklet that contains 40 different cutting activities, with at least one activity for each letter of the alphabet. The PDF file is 41 pages and contains a clickable table of contents to help you find what you're looking for in a jiffy.

Craft pages include: Ant, Apples, Balloons, Bat, Bear, Bee, Car, Christmas tree, Cow, Dinosaur, Dog, Elephant, Envelope, Flower, Goose, House, Ice cream cone, Jack-o’-lantern, Kite, Ladybug, Monkey, Nest, Octopus, Panda, Pinwheel, Quilt, Race Car, Rat, Sheep, Snowman, Train, Turkey, Turtle, Umbrella, Valentine, Wagon, Xylophone, Yacht, and Zebra.

Click here to download the free file! 

 

Cutting Shapes Exercise

Here is an activity to help your preschooler with shape identification, as well as helping to improve cutting skills. Children need plenty of practice using scissors before they enter kindergarten, and this is a great exercise for just that. Click on the image and save to your desktop (or click on the image to view it full size and then print).

For a six-page file of different cutting activities (cutting shapes, and straight and curvy lines), click here.