Setting the Stage for Tactile Understanding - American Printing ...

• Have the child practice scissor skills by performing some of thefollowing activities:— Cut through a variety of papers (grocery bags, corrugated cardboard, tissuepaper, laminated paper, etc.). Discuss afterwards which was easiest/hardestto cut.— Cut through a variety of fabrics (velvet, silk, corduroy, cotton, burlap).Discuss afterwards which was easiest/hardest to cut.— Cut through a variety of materials (playdough, plastic bottle, bubble wrap,textured wallpaper). Discuss afterwards which was easiest/hardest to cut.— Allow the child to use scissors to create interesting designs that allowroom for error (e.g., cutting slits in folded paper to make “snowflakes,”cutting slits along the margins of a pre-cut feather or leaf shape.)— Fold a piece of paper in half and have the child cut along the crease.— Have the child cut along straight raised-line paths prepared with puff painton a sheet of paper. Do the same activity with pre-drawn curved tactile30 Showtime