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Scissor Secrets that make Cutting Easy

November 15, 2016 by Amy Smith

Learn these scissor secrets to make cutting easy for your child. Tips include ideas for hand strengthening, wrist positioning, and visual cues.

Learning how to cut is a big milestone for your child and cutting skills are expected to be mastered by elementary school.  Yet learning how to properly hold and manipulate scissors can … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fine Motor Activities Tagged With: cutting, fine motor activities, scissor skills

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Amy Smith I am an occupational therapist with over 10 years of experience working with children. I created this website to offer parents, teachers, and therapists FREE ideas, strategies, and activities that they can do with their children to improve their fine and gross motor skills, handwriting, academic learning, and regulate their sensory system all while "playing" (just playing smarter)! Read More…

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