Scissor Skills for St Patrick's Day

Get your scissors ready - this leprechaun needs a beard trim! Combine St Patrick's Day fun with cutting practice with our fast-prep activity pages. Each of the 50 beard-trimming pages give students different line styles to cut with increasing complexity

Perfect for:

• kindergarten and preschool learners
• remediation with students who are challenged by cutting
• fine motor development
• printing on paper or thin card (card will offer additional support)

Students will:

• color the page (optional)
• cut from the bottom edge up to the circle
• use the solid thick line for visual support
• move from standard, evenly spaced straight lines through wavy lines, zig zag lines to wavy lines of varying length
• curl each strand around a pencil to make the beards curly

Tip: tape the top corners down to the table with washi tape for extra stability!

By curling each strand around a pencil, students will get additional fine motor development and learn a great paper-craft technique to use in their own creative projects.

When students have finished the cutting activity they can also color, cut and glue the page into a bright backing paper for a fun classroom display of the curly beards.

We would love to share 1 sample page from our new pack with you here on the blog today: Leprechaun Beard Cutting practice page

You can find 50 more pages for differentiation in our store:

Find more of our St Patrick's Day Printables and ideas over on our website page!