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- Pair
of child's scissors. These
scissors are specially designed
for children and are designed to
cut paper. Whenever a child uses
scissors, it is wise to
supervise. If your child is
left-handed, make sure that you
buy left-handed scissors. Yes,
left-handed scissors. They cut
differently from right-handed
scissors. If a left-handed child
uses right-handed scissors, the
child will make an utter mess of
the cut-out.
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- A
piece of old wallpaper or old
catalogue pages that have designs
on them that can be cut-out
easily. The designs should be
such that when pasted on a piece
of cardboard they make a nice
picture. The designs should not
be too complex.
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- Non-toxic
glue stick and a piece of colored
cardboard or sheet of white
paper.
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| PURPOSE |
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we cut out a design with a pair of scissors, the
two hands have to work in unison. One hand
cutting with the scissors the other turning the
paper with the design on it. This calls for a
degree of sophistication in eye-hand
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| PROCESS |
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Choose a design on a piece of wallpaper, e.g., a
clown, a teddybear, a bunch of flowers. 2. Cut out a
section that you think your child will be able to
handle without any difficulty.
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Using the child's scissors demonstrate to the
child how to use both hands to cut out.
4. Give
the cut-out section and the scissors to the child
and ask them to cut out the picture. This will
come in time. It is more important that the child
use the two hands; one to turn, the other to cut.
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When the child has the picture cut out, turn it
over and have the child apply the glue to the
back of the picture. |
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Stick the picture to a piece of cardboard or
paper. 7. Voila! The child has a
picture to put up for display.
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Have the child make a grocery list or make a meal
by cutting out the items from grocery store
flyers. 9. The child can create clothing
outfits for each member of the family by
selecting and cutting out the items from a
catalogue.
10. Try
making an arrangement of catalogue cut-outs of
favorite toys and pasting them on a background.
This is called a collage.
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Other ideas: furnish your child's bedroom (or any
other room); select favorite tools; favorite
musical instruments, etc.
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| WHAT TO LOOK FOR |
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| When
you display a child's picture, one that they have
created themselves, it gives the child a chance
for others to compliment the child and for the
child to see ways of improving his/her own work.
This will help the child cut closer to the actual
outline and improve upon and further develop the
two hands working together. It is important that
the child not be rushed, this has nothing to do
with intelligence it is simply coordination. |
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