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Practical Life Skills Montessori Cutting Practice

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In this post, we will be discussing the topic of Practical Life skills, particularly Montessori cutting practice.

Fine motor skills are those small muscle movements that babies, toddlers and young children learn to make.

This particularly involves the hand muscles.

Gross motor skills are larger muscle movements that are also important, but we will focus on fine motor skills.

In this post, we will be discussing the topic of Practical Life skills, particularly Montessori cutting practice.

In this post, we will be discussing the topic of Practical Life skills, particularly Montessori cutting practice.

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Importantly, this will be helpful to you now and in the future.

Episode 55: Practical Life Skills Montessori Cutting Practice
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#1 Practical Life Montessori Activities

If you are a Montessori Guide, are doing Montessori at home or you are an occupational therapist, you will want to pay attention to this particular cutting skill.

Remember that our goal in our Montessori classrooms is to help the child develop independence.

One of these ways is by providing the child opportunities to be more self-sufficient and confident.

The Montessori Practical Life subject is the perfect one that provides these important qualities.

It focuses on many aspects of real life, including everything revolving fine motor skills.

From gently cleaning a plant’s leaves in the “Care of the Environment” category to learning to gently shake someone’s hand in the “Grace and Courtesy,” the child will practice control of movement.

In this post, we will be discussing the topic of Practical Life skills, particularly Montessori cutting practice.

You may begin practicing these cutting fine motor skills exercises as soon as the child’s hand fits well in the scissors’ openings.

Also, make sure the little hand can make the opening and closing motion.

The opening and closing motion has to be strong enough to cut a sheet of thin paper.

So, consider letting the child try at around 2 years of age.

If the child isn’t ready or their hands aren’t big or strong enough yet, try again in a few months.

#2 Fine Motor Skills Scissor Practice

For those of us who are in the educational sphere, we know the importance of learning to cut, but not everyone might think that it’s a skill worth learning early.

Think about how much children will be able to do on their own if they can learn all of the skills that are practiced with the motion of cutting paper.

Children will be practicing:

  • muscular movements
  • self-esteem
  • muscular contractions
  • control of movement
  • dexterity
  • eye-hand coordination
  • physical awarenenss
  • confidence
  • muscular isolation
  • proprioception
  • independence
In this post, we will be discussing the topic of Practical Life skills, particularly Montessori cutting practice.

You definitely have many activities that you can offer the child for cutting practice, but start with just straight lines.

Make it fun if you want.

You can use colored paper and have the child make a craft out of the strips that they cut.

#3 Scissor Skills and Cutting Activities

Set up some Practical Life exercises the Montessori way.

What you need is a wooden tray, scissors that fit the child’s hand, paper and pencil.

Cut one piece of paper into 4 quadrants.

You will use each quadrant for a different fine motor activity.

With the pencil, you will draw 3 straight lines that are parallel with each other.

Have the child practice cutting on the three lines all the way through.

Assess. Once the child has mastered cutting straight lines, you can move onto the next activity.

In this post, we will be discussing the topic of Practical Life skills, particularly Montessori cutting practice.

On the second quadrant, draw 3 very wide Vs.

Basically, it’s two straight lines that converge at the center, but are a little diagonal.

Have the child practice that until mastered.

The third quadrant will have 3 wide zig zags.

The fourth quadrant will have regular zigzags.

Montessori Practical Life Activities List PDF

Are you interested in learning more about this amazing set of skills?

Would you like to shortcut your planning time and your child’s success in going from dependence to independence?

Then grab this free download with a list of 100 activity ideas for Montessori Practical Life.

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Key Takeaways

You don’t have to be in occupational therapy to help a child with fine motor skills or to know how to do it right.

The Montessori Practical Life subject includes fine motor skills, such as cutting with scissors.

If a child isn’t ready to use scissors, the child can begin by taking a sheet of paper and practice tearing strips with their hands.

Once the child is ready mentally and shows interest, then find a pair of scissors that fit the child’s hand.

Begin with letting the child cut straight lines.

Make sure one skill is mastered before moving onto the next level up.

Resources mentioned in training

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