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Sunday, March 29, 2015

Snip! Snip!

When would be the good time to introduce scissors to kids? Experts say "kids can cut well with scissors at the age of 5 to 6."  It means kids typically are ready physically on their little hands for scissors use at that age.  However, if kids are not exposed to using scissors often, using scissors can be a tricky task for them.    

Before you give any scissors to your children, I would like to suggest that you think of your child's hand dominance, size of his/her hands, size of the scissors, and how well the scissors cut.  

I would like to introduce some activities that can help kids to learn scissors use.  Most activities focus on using the thumb, index finger, and middle finger separately from the ring finger and pinkie.

  • Picking up small things such as pom-pom's, buttons, and uncooked macaroni pasta with a tong with those three fingers (the thumb, index, and middle finger) 
  • Spinning a top
  • Playing with finger puppets
  • Popping a bubble sheet with those three fingers (the thumb, index, and middle finger), No pounding on the bubble sheet with the fist

This is another way of teaching kids how to use the scissors.  After I tell or show my kids how to use the scissors, I sometimes video-tape their hands right away.  Then I share the video clip with them.  First of all, they're interested in using high-tech gadgets during session.  They like to see themselves in the video clip or in the picture. Seeing themselves in the video clip or pictures becomes reinforcement and visual cues for next time learning.  And it works!!


These are my kindergarten kids and they practice snipping the scissors.  They play cutting the putty.
Student A stretches the putty.  Student B cuts the putty.  Student A adds those two cut pieces of the putty and stretches it again and again.  Student B continues cutting the putty.  After 10 times of cutting, they switch their jobs.


 Are you ready to have fun?! 
Enjoy teaching and Enjoy learning~!


 


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