Sea Cutting Activity
Build Fine Motor Strength
One of Korey’s goals throughout his 2 years in therapy, has been to gain fine motor strength. Using scissors is one of the way his therapists have helped him in gaining this skill.
At first he didn’t want to hold the scissors properly, or cut on the lines at all. We always seem to have this struggle when a new activity is introduced. Thanks to the many fun cutting activity pads at Target that featured his favorite characters like Paw Patrol, I’ve been able to get him more excited about using this skill.
Coming across these cute sea designs I made my own cutting activity that you can share with your children. I know from experience that when your child is in therapy, doing those activities at home with them helps increase their potential of reaching their goal.
Give encouragement
With Korey’s Sensory Processing Disorder we have had to fight the constant moving, and him paying attention to his activity. Through his first year in preschool he has gone from sitting for about a minute on an activity to an average of almost 5 minutes! I was thrilling in reading that in his goal update at the end of the year and I’ve been giving him encouragement while doing easy cutting activities.
Korey likes to have his independence while doing scissor worksheets but I know that I need to keep an eye on him to ensure he is holding the scissors properly and looking while cutting. Barnes and Noble has a great section for buying books for a cutting activity.
I’m hoping that with summer school we will see more improvement in him holding the scissors correctly each time and paying attention while cutting. He needs improvement with manipulating the paper while cutting zig-zag lines as well.
Do you do cutting activities at home?
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This is a great little project. I think it’s important to help kids with their fine motor skills. It can be difficult for some of them.
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Building fine motor skills is such an important thing. Thanks for the awesome activity to share.
Great tips! My DD3 has trouble with this. She hasn’t determined if she is a righty or lefty yet. I think that is her big challenge.
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My kids are well past the point of needing to do cutting activities. These are so cute though! I’ll be sure to pass on to friends that have younger kids.
So cute and useful!
What a great activity to develop fine motor skills. Your free sea cutting activity is adorable. It’s so cute.
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My youngest loves cutting everything right now and he will go crazy about these ideas! And it will be nice to give him something to cut up that he can be excited about!
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This is a really helpful skill to prep them for school. I really like this cute design!
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This would be a great activity for my friends little girl. She has Autisim and needs to do these kind of fine motor activities.
This is such a fun activity! It’s hard work to get the fine motor skills mastered and keep a smile, but this sheet looks great.
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this is great post thank you sharing . it helps to the people that have pinterest
Cutting out figures helps improve hand and eye coordination in addition to the fine motor strength of a child. Just take necessary precaution while cutting out papers 🙂
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Corey is so lucky to have a great Mom like you. I think he will do geat with the therapy and love that you give him.
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We don’t do cutting activities here at home. To be honest, this is the first time that I’ve actually heard about cutting activity. Thanks for sharing your story.
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We’re a little past this stage now. I have a granddaughter who will be hitting the cutting age soon though.
What a great activity for fine motor skills. I know last year when my youngest was in kindergarten, she needed to practice cutting with scissors more frequently.
OMG this is great!! My daughter is just starting to learn to cut! She would probably love this activity:)
What a fun activity and good to use too. I think it would be a good activity for almost anyone.
This is a great way to help kids develop their fine motor skills. Thanks so much for the printable!
Aww..the designs are so cute! Thanks for sharing with us at the Merry Monday link party. I hope you’ll join us again next week. Sharing your post on Twitter!
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This sounds like a great idea
This sounds very cool and useful.