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Christmas Scissor Skills – Easy Christmas Fine Motor

Celebrate the holidays with some fun Christmas fine motor activities for kids. This Christmas Scissor Skills will help toddlers and preschoolers to develop fine motor skills and best of all, you can get the templates for free.

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The Christmas Scissor Skills is a free printable activity. Develop fine motor skills with this Christmas fine motor activity for toddlers and preschoolers.

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More Christmas Fine Motor Activities

Are you looking for more Christmas themes fine motor activities to do with your kids? These play ideas can be used at home or in the classroom to develop fine motor skills. Either way, your kids will love learning through play with these fun and easy activities.

If you want more fine motor activities that are Christmas themed then this Christmas Tree Fine Motor Activity is just for you. It’s a DIY peg board, and all you need is an old cardboard box, some paint and some pegs. Your kids can decorate the Christmas tree again and again (and hopefully leave the real one alone).

Count and Clip Christmas Tree Lights Cards – learn how to make these count and clip cards. Count how many Christmas Lights are on the tree and attach the clothespins with the correct number written on it to complete the tree. This is a fantastic way to practice counting, number recognition, fine motor skills, and more.

Christmas Sweater Fine Motor Activity – Stickers are one of my favorite fine motor activities for kids. Pinching, peeling and sticking are all skills that they’re practising. Draw a sweater onto a piece of paper and hand the kids some Christmas themed stickers. They can place the stickers onto the paper to make their own Christmas sweater art.

For more ideas, visit 30 Christmas Fine Motor Activities for Kids

Materials Needed

  1. The Christmas Scissor Skills Free Printable found below.
  2. Paper (red, green yellow and white)
  3. Scissors
  4. A printer


How to set up a Christmas Scissor Skills Activity

The Christmas Scissor Skills is a free printable activity. Develop fine motor skills with this Christmas fine motor activity for toddlers and preschoolers.

Step 1: Download the Free Christmas Scissor Skills Printable.

The printable includes pictures of a reindeer, snowman, christmas tree and a star. Each picture consists of an outline and dotted lines in various patterns for the children to cut along.

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2. Print your pictures.

Each page has 4 copies of each picture on it. I did this for convenience, so that if you are preparing this activity for a class there is less preparation involved for the teacher.

It also means that you can print each of the pictures on a different color of paper. I used white, green, red and yellow. But of course, this isn’t necessary. You can also just print off all of the pictures with white paper and then let the children color in their pictures before cutting them out.

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3. Cut them out.

The extent to which you cut out the pictures depends on the age group you teach and how you want to present the activity.

Preschoolers can cut out the shapes first, and then cut along the dotted lines. Toddler however, may need you to cut out the shapes first and then try the dotted lines themselves.

Another thing to remember with toddlers, is that they may not follow the lines at all. Mine didn’t care and just did her own thing. In which case there’s no point going through all that effort. The toddlers will still get all the benefit of practicing their scissor skills and can appreciate the pictures and increase their vocabulary along the way.
4. Enjoy playing.

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The Christmas Scissor Skills is a free printable activity. Develop fine motor skills with this Christmas fine motor activity for toddlers and preschoolers.

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Over 100 Pages of Christmas themed play based learning activities and craft templates. Perfect for preschool and kindergarteners.