I recently noticed that scissor skill workbooks are popular among How we Montessori readers. I love to use scissor practice worksheets but usually, I download them from Etsy or Teachers Pay Teachers. I also like to give my preschooler catalogues from sports stores or gardening stores and allow him to cut out the images as he likes.
There are benefits to using scissor skill workbooks like these. The workbooks allow us to have lots of images on hand, we never know if the child will use one page or ten, or more. Workbooks may offer variety and often have images for a range of skill levels.
If you are looking for some scissors, from around three years we use the Staedtler Noris Club Children Scissors (our review of 10 children's scissors is here).
1. Melissa & Doug Sea Life Scissor Skills Activity Pad
We love this scissor skills activity pad and would absolutely recommend it. I'm now eager to try other Melissa & Doug Scissor Skills Activity Pads. The activities are interesting, there is a ton of variety and the pages are super easy to tear off and give to the child.
- Easy to tear out pages.
- Colourful interesting images.
- Lots of variety including cutting activities with straight and curved lines.
- Cutting and pasting activities.
- Includes a pair of scissors (not pictured).
- Includes 20 sheets.
This submarine is a good example of a cut and paste activity.
The child cuts out the people, then pastes the people in the portholes.
My child (4yrs) struggles and often gets annoyed when cutting images out from a large sheet of paper, sometimes I cut out the images like this (above) which makes it easier for him. I've provided the glass bowl for the paper scraps. The smaller images/pieces can be pasted together to make a whole turtle.
Straight lines are easier for young children or early learnings to start with. It takes a lot of skill for the young child to learn to cut on the line.
A walrus cut and pasting activity.
So cute.
2. Scissor Skills Activity Book for Kids by Andrew Chris (Leopard Cub Cover)
- Has a clear line of dots for the child to follow and cut on around the shape/image.
- Black and white images - good for painting or colouring afterwards.
- Includes shapes (circle, square etc) and images (animals) to cut out.
- Includes 50 sheets/activities.
These images have dots or lines like this for the child to follow.
3. Modern Kid Press Scissor Skills Preschool Workbook for Kids (Fox Cover)
This workbook is popular with HWM readers, it was the twelfth best selling book through our links in 2021. The images are cute, but there isn't a dotted line for children to follow.
- Black and white images.
- Includes lines, shapes and characters to cut out.
- Includes 50 sheets/activities.
4. Melissa & Doug Tape Activity Book
This isn't specifically a scissor activity book but it makes sense for the child to cut the tape with scissors. The child can choose a page and apply the tape to the white rectangular spots or apply it wherever they like!
- Four rolls of tape included.
- Pages are thick and coated - reusable, can be re-used many times.
- Spiral-bound - easy to flip through the images.
- 20 reusable scenes/pages.
- Simple cutting of tape - useful for children who may not like more complex scissor activities.
- Engaging - many children like cutting and using tape.
This is fantastic for visual discrimination. The child can cut the tape to the size of the white spots on the sheets.
There are 20 images in this spiral book.
5. Funskill Haircut Scissor Practice for Toddlers
This is a fun workbook for children who like haircutting worksheets. All of the pages are of hair, some straight, others zig-zag and curvy.
For more scissor skill activities you might like to read:
- Three New Cutting (with Scissors) Trays - at 2.5 Years
- First Cutting Trays - 18 months to three years
- Our Favourite Cutting Strips - at Three Years (36 months)
- Montessori Scissor Work Ideas
- What Are The Best Scissors for Montessori Toddlers? We Road Test 10 Pairs including Safety & Spring Assisted Scissors
In Australia, Officeworks has a good range of children's scissors, I could only find scissor activity books online at Booktopia, Book Depository (free international shipping) or Amazon AU.
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