Fine motor skills - scissor activities

Young children need loads of practice with scissors before they are totally competant when cutting. Here are some good sites with lots of printables and also lots of tips for helping children with those fine motor skills.

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Make things out of paper

Thank you Blueliz for this link!

Paper craft

Brilliant site for making alsorts of 3d crafts

Craft site

Fantastic Craft Site for Kids

I love this site it has loads of craft activities for children or even adults

Handprint heart for Mother's day

I loved this so have given it a separate post all of its own.

A Handprint heart for mother's day

Handprint Heart

You could make a card with this on the front and put one of the lovely handprint poems inside the card.

Handprints
There are always so many of my fingerprints to see,
On the furniture and walls from sticky, grubby me,
But if you stop and think a while,
You'll see I'm growing fast,
Those little handprints will disappear,
You can't bring back the past.
So here's a small reminder,
To keep not throw away,
Of how those tiny hands once looked,
To make you smile one day.

Ten Tiny Fingers
Ten tiny fingers, that always want to play,
That never stop exploring that wonder of today,
Ten tiny fingers, that from the very start,
Will reach out for tomorrow yet always hold your heart.

Arts and Crafts

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-3D-Paper-Snowflake

These paper snowflakes are fabulous and not too difficult to make.
Here is one that my daughter made.



http://www.hitentertainment.com/artattack/artattacks.html

This is a great site for lots and lots of craft and art activities