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Christmas Cutting Strips

Christmas Cutting Strips

$2.50 - $2.50
$2.50
$2.50 - $2.50
$2.50

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Keep little hands busy during December with these festive Christmas cutting strips. Four pages of holiday-themed scissor practice featuring ornaments, trees, and snowflakes build fine motor skills while celebrating the season for ages 2 to 5.

📦 What's Included

  • 4 pages of cutting strips: Multiple strips per page for extended practice
  • Christmas imagery: Ornaments, Christmas trees, snowflakes, presents
  • Progressive difficulty levels: Straight lines, gentle curves, zigzag patterns

💡 Learning Benefits

  • Scissor skills developing proper grip and cutting control
  • Fine motor strength preparing hand muscles for writing
  • Hand-eye coordination following lines precisely while cutting
  • Bilateral coordination using hands together in different roles

🎯 How to Use

  • Begin with straight-line strips for scissor beginners
  • Model proper scissor position with thumb facing up
  • Advance to curves and zigzags as confidence builds
  • Extension idea: String cut strips into paper garland for tree decorating

🎄 Teaching Tip from a Montessori Guide

After cutting, let children glue their strips onto construction paper to make wrapping paper or greeting cards. This adds purpose to the practice and shows that fine motor work can create something useful, not just "practice for later."

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