Scissors are familiar to a child from an early age, as they see how they cut their nails. The very process of using them arouses obvious interest in children, however, parents have a lot of questions regarding how to teach a child to cut with scissors and protect them from injury.
Necessary
- - scissors;
- - paper.
Instructions
Step 1
Purchase special baby scissors for your child. They are small in size, adapted for children's hands, and also have rounded ends. Scissors for children do not give an opportunity to prick with them. At an early age, it is not worth introducing a child to this subject; it is best to wait until he reaches two years.
Step 2
Explain to your child how to properly hold the scissors in their hands and show the simplest cutting techniques. The first scissor opening movements can be practiced in the air, without paper. After the child understands how the scissors work, take paper that is thick enough to hold in his hands, such as pages from old magazines.
Step 3
Place the child on your lap and take his hands in yours, helping him to open and close the scissors. Over time, he will learn to do it on his own. At an early age, a baby can simply chop paper into strips; at two years old, he cannot cut figures. The child begins to confidently cut along the contour closer to 4 years.
Step 4
After three years, as an exercise, invite your child to cut out the simplest shapes drawn on paper: a square, a triangle, a circle. At the same time, immediately teach that it is necessary to move the paper during cutting, and not try to bend the brush with scissors in accordance with the depicted contour of the figure. If you use colored paper and think over the topic of the future application in advance, then the lesson will be even more creative and interesting.
