Cutting practice worksheets
Each print is a different sheet. You don't need to sign up.
Thumb on top, open wide, close slowly. Turn the paper with your other hand and keep the scissors pointing away from you.
Two grades, each its own sheet. Print one here, or open a grade for examples and teaching notes.
Print by grade
-
Preschool Core grade
Each print is a different sheet. You don't need to sign up.
Cutting practice is scissor skills for three and four year olds: strips to cut apart, each with a bold dashed line to cut along, straight first, then corners, then curves, then a row of shapes to cut out. The lines are the same strokes as the tracing sheet, because the hand that steers a pencil is the hand that steers scissors.
-
Kindergarten
Cutting practice is scissor control for a kindergartener: strips to cut apart, each with a dashed line to cut along, from straight lines through zigzags and waves to shapes cut out whole. Steering scissors along a line trains the same small muscles and the same two-handed control that printing letters needs.
More on letter formation
All handwriting worksheets →
Or all English worksheets: every grade, every topic.