In the Tall, Tall Grass Preschool Scissor Skills Activity

Working on scissor skills with your preschooler?  Try this fun, hands-on scissor skills activity!  Your preschooler will love "cutting the grass" to find the flowers and/or bugs hiding there!  This is a perfect fine motor skills activity for spring! 

My 3 year old loves any chance she gets to use scissors, so to prevent any cutting mis-haps {know what I mean?}, I like to present fun, hands-on activities like this spring themed cutting activity.  

Scissor skills are an important fine motor skill for little ones to learn, so What is Hiding in the Grass? Cutting Activity was perfect for her!  

Preschool Scissor Skills Activity

This simple fine motor activity would be a fun go-along activity for the book, In the Tall Tall Grass.

Supplies:

• construction paper
• scissors
• stickers
• glue

To set up this activity, I enlarged a piece of Spring clipart from mycutegraphics.com in Word.  

After printing it out, I added some colorful butterfly stickers.  

 I cut a green sheet of construction paper, creating vertical strips to resemble grass and glued the edge to the bottom of the clipart.

My 3 year old came over without any prompting and picked up the scissors; she was ready to cut!  

I helped her hold the scissors correctly initially, but she got the hang of it and started to cut away the grass...  What is Hiding in the Grass??  

She had to snip away to find out!

The activity didn't last long, but she did cut every blade of grass almost to the bottom where it was glued!  

I didn't think she would cut that much off!  

Finally, the grass is trimmed!  I see flowers, butterflies, and a caterpillar!

To create your own What is Hiding in the Grass? Cutting Activity, simply create a scene using clipart, stickers, and/or free-hand and glue on some construction paper grass.

Have fun cutting!

More cutting/ scissor skills activities:

• Shear the Sheep

• Scissor Skills with Junk Mail

• Lion's Mane Cutting Activity

What is Hiding in the Grass? Cutting Activity is part of an on-going series, Fine Motor Fridays.  Stop by to see what other Fine Motor activities are being shared today!

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Looking for more hands-on "spring" theme activities for your 3-5 year old?!  Take a look at our Spring Preschool Unit Lesson Plans! 

“Celebrate the beauty of spring flowers, rain showers and sprouting gardens with these playful learning activities.”

Get ready for fun and learning with preschool unit lesson plans for Spring. This thematic unit is packed with literature based activities that are easy to prepare and fun to implement.

Using several well-loved Children's Literature selections, your child will make connections in math, reading, fine motor skills, art, sensory play, and more!  through hands-on SPRING theme activities!