Preschool · Arts · week 3

Snip-snip: fringe cutting

Practice opening and closing safety scissors to snip fringe along the edge of a strip of paper.

Scissors have two jobs: open wide, then close tight. That is called a snip.

Today you will snip little cuts along the edge of a paper strip. Each snip makes one piece of fringe, like grass or hair.

📋 For the teacher
Teach it (10–15 min):
  • Use child-safe, blunt-tip scissors only, and stay right beside your child the whole time.
  • Model the open-close motion slowly first. Let your child copy you before touching real paper.
  • Thick paper or a paper plate edge is easier to start on than thin paper.
  • It is fine if snips are uneven. The goal is the scissor motion, not a perfect edge.
Talk about it:
  • Which hand holds the scissors?
  • What two things does a snip do: open and what?
  • What did your fringe end up looking like?

Mastery looks like: They open and close scissors with control and make several snips along an edge without help.

Common stumbles: Squeezing the scissors closed without opening them fully first, so the cut does not go all the way through.

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