Cutting is an important, yet difficult, skill for preschoolers. It’s helpful to have a Montessori-inspired paper cutting activity available to encourage your preschooler’s mastery of cutting.
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Here are some helpful Montessori-inspired resources from around the blogosphere:
Cutting with Scissors Information:
Montessori for Everyone has a post on Setting Up Your Preschool Art Area.
Montessori World has a section on Handwork: Paper Cutting.
AHC Arts & Crafts has Paper Cutting Art Projects for Kids with advanced paper cutting tutorials.
Paper Cutting Activities with Free Printables (Photo from Teaching from a Tacklebox)
Tackle Box Montessori has Paper Cutting (for young children) and Paper Cutting – Extreme!! (artistic paper cutting). You’ll find the free printable templates for the cutting box at Teachers Pay Teachers.
Printables:
Cutting Lessons (Image from Montessori Print Shop)
Montessori Print Shop has a series of printable Pin Poke and Cutting Lessons available very inexpensively.
Ang at Home has free printable patterns for a Montessori style cutting box (modeled after Teaching with a Tackle Box’s paper cutting post)
Umamah Learning Academy has free printables of the first cutting strips.
Montessori Materials has some free Cutting Paper and Scissors Exercises.
Royal Baloo has free cutting paper strips (subscriber freebie).
This Reading Mama has lots of free packs for cutting practice with scissors.
Teachers Pay Teachers has many free Montessori paper cutting printables.
All Our Free Themed Cutting Strips
I’ve arranged the following gallery in alphabetical order. Just click on an image to go to the post with the related free printable!
You can see all our free cutting strips with the latest at the top here.
Montessori Cutting Video:
Examples of Montessori-Inspired Cutting Activities:
Paper Cutting Activity (Photo from To the Lesson!)
To the Lesson! has basic paper cutting (photo) and cutting folded paper to make shapes.
Paper Cutting Tray (Photo from Leptir)
Leptir has a post with paper cutting.
My Montessori Journey has cutting work that’s always out on the art shelves.
Autumn Paper Cutting Activity (Photo from Counting Coconuts)
Counting Coconuts has a cutting activity using stickers on paper strips.
Paper Cutting Strips (Photo by Julie at The Adventures of Bear)
The Adventures of Bear used Word and clipart to create themed cutting strips. (Blog is no longer available.)
Bug Strip Cutting (Photo from Fun with Mama)
Fun with Mama has Bug Cutting. (Post is no longer available.)
UPDATE: Developing Scissor Cutting Skills with Montessori-Inspired Activities (my roundup post with more Montessori-inspired cutting activities)
Does your child have a favorite paper cutting activity?
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As always, a wonderful selection of works to share of one type. I love how you pull these posts together.
Thanks so much, Martianne! I probably spend way too much time with it, but I love finding and sharing so many awesome activities! 🙂
Wow Deb that’s just another thorough post from you …:) It’s so great to find all related links on one page. Thanks for linking me up too. I juat saw your comment on my blog and rushed to see your post. It truly was a wonderful surprise. Thank you so much for all the wonderful ideas and resources you share.
Thanks so much for your kind comment! It’s my pleasure to link to your post. Your post is wonderful, and I really appreciate you sharing the free cutting-strip printables! 🙂
Love all the links you share! The photos are nice visuals. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks so much! I’m grateful that I’ve received permission from so many bloggers to use their photos with credit to them. Please let me know if I could use certain types or any of your photos in the future, too. Here’s the post I wrote with my photo permission request: https://livingmontessorinow.com/2011/06/15/request-for-montessori-photo-permissions/.
How wonderful to have all this great information on cutting in one place! Thank you Deb!
Thanks so much for your kind comment, Leslie! If you’d ever like to link up with Montessori Monday, I’d love it – and I’m sure many others would appreciate learning about your awesome blog posts! 🙂
Hi Deb! Thanks for hosting the link up! I also appreciate all the ideas for cutting. This is a bit of an obstacle but of great interest for E. So, I am sure that I will be able to get lots of tips from your links!
Take care,
Kerri
Thanks for your kind comment, Kerri! I’m so glad you’re linked up with Montessori Monday! I tend to get caught up with everything coming in sometimes, and it’s easiest for me to see all the great Montessori-inspired posts when they’re linked up with Montessori Monday! 🙂
JDaniel has just started to work on cutting. Learning to hold the scissors was hard.
Thanks for your comment, JDaniel4’s Mom! Learning to hold scissors is difficult for most preschoolers. Most Montessorians carefully demonstrate paper cutting and keep paper-cutting exercises out all the time because of that. I love that paper cutting activities can be varied with the season, holiday, or unit to keep interest up. 🙂
As always, a great collection of resources. Annabelle is already wanting scissors and I have plenty of ideas from my days in the children’s house, but nothing that seems quite right for someone so young. I’m glad to see some progressive lists of ideas. Thanks, Deb!
Thanks for your kind words, Melissa! Finding the right activity is definitely more challenging for a toddler. I was impressed with the posts on the subject available in the blogosphere. 🙂
Deb! Great post as usual, will be linking!
Thanks so much, Maria! I always love what you share on your blog, too! 🙂
I love all the ideas you have posted! Thanks for sharing them!
Hi,
Where did you get the resizable box?
Hi Cleopatra! Do you mean the partitioned box from Tackle Box Montessori? That’s actually a tackle box from Amazon or Walmart. If you mean a different box, just let me know! 🙂 Deb