It is recommended to incorporate paper cutting in addition to drawing and origami activities to stimulate your child’s brain and fine motor skills. Many people think paper cutting is a difficult task for young child but there are plenty of cutting activities even younger children can enjoy.
In this article, we will introduce some simple paper cutting activities that you can enjoy at home with your child.
What are the educational benefits of paper cutting?
We want our children to pick up many skills, but one set of skills that is very important for them to pick up is fine motor skills, like folding paper and cutting paper. Incorporating paper cutting activities is a great way to train your child’s hands. These activities also help expand children’s imagination, improve their concentration, and give them a sense of accomplishment. Please enjoy paper cutting activities with your child.
Basic Paper Cutting Activity
Paper cutting is an easy activity to do prepare at home. First, prepare a sheet of origami paper that your child likes. Fold it in a triangle and then fold it to make a triangle. After you fold it in a triangle 3 times, ask your child to use the scissors to cut around the triangle. Once they are better at using scissors you can try cutting into circles or squares as well.
After making a lot of cuts in the paper, open it gently. The unfolded origami paper will have a beautiful pattern on it, which will surely surprise your child.
Try Cutting Out a Planned Design
Try cutting out according to a pattern written on origami paper. In this activity, adults should draw a pattern on origami paper that has been folded in half. Please start with an easy pattern like a heart or a star. Line-symmetrical motifs such as the butterfly and rabbit face are also suitable for cutouts. Cutting along the lines will allow your child to create a beautiful pattern with the origami paper.
Decorate with the Cut-out Patterns
Parents should hang up the paper-cutting designs their child makes in a place where everyone can see them. It will give their child satisfaction to know that you cherish their work and motivate them to make more. It is also a good idea to praise them for their accomplishments.
You can also glue a few of the cutouts onto drawing paper and encourage them to add free drawings to the paper with crayon or colored pencil.
Families who have limited space to hang up their child’s artwork (cutout designs) can put them in an album that you can hang onto and go through whenever you want to.
Paper cutting activities encourage creativity, concentration and even hand dexterity and can be done easily with some paper and a pair of scissors.
It is also recommended to attend art classes with your child so he/she can explore other types of art as well and improve his/her fine motor skills with other children. The art classes with expand his/her interest in art and creativity.
