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How to Improve Cutting Skills with a Free Flower Printable

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Your kids will have fun while working on cutting skills with this free flower printable. This activity is a perfect addition to your flower theme unit.


Now that I’m living in Texas, spring is my favorite season.  Do you wanna know why?  The wildflowers are AMAZING!!  They make up for the fact that we don’t see the beautiful fall colors that I loved so much in Ohio.

Kids will love these free flower theme printables. The flower activities will help them improve their cutting skills. These fun art activities ideas are a great addition to your flower theme, garden theme, or spring theme unit or lesson plans in your preschool, pre-k or kindergarten classroom. Better than worksheets, these flower templates are perfect for building scissor skills. Ideas for open-ended creation...more than a craft project and perfect for bulletin boards #finemotor #preschool

Here is a fun flower craft that reminds me of the fields of Texas wildflowers…and the fine motor activity is a fun way for your kids to work on their fine scissor skills.  To make this preschool craft idea easier for you, I made a cutting printable cutting template for you to use.

Two Levels of Difficulty

The printable includes two different versions of flower templates.  Kids can cut out circular flowers and then cut out wedges around the circle to create the flower petals.  One version has four flower petals while the other version will be slightly more difficult with more petals (8) to cut out.

If your kids are not quite ready to cut out the circles, you can help them out with that task and just ask them to cut straight lines to form the petals.

Kids will love these free flower theme printables. The flower activities will help them improve their cutting skills. These fun art activities ideas are a great addition to your flower theme, garden theme, or spring theme unit or lesson plans in your preschool, pre-k or kindergarten classroom. Better than worksheets, these flower templates are perfect for building scissor skills. Ideas for open-ended creation...more than a craft project and perfect for bulletin boards #finemotor #preschool

The four-petal version reminds me of a dogwood blossom.

Kids will love these free flower theme printables. The flower activities will help them improve their cutting skills. These fun art activities ideas are a great addition to your flower theme, garden theme, or spring theme unit or lesson plans in your preschool, pre-k or kindergarten classroom. Better than worksheets, these flower templates are perfect for building scissor skills. Ideas for open-ended creation...more than a craft project and perfect for bulletin boards #finemotor #preschool

The eight-petal version reminds me of a daisy or a Mexican hat.

Kids will love these free flower theme printables. The flower activities will help them improve their cutting skills. These fun art activities ideas are a great addition to your flower theme, garden theme, or spring theme unit or lesson plans in your preschool, pre-k or kindergarten classroom. Better than worksheets, these flower templates are perfect for building scissor skills. Ideas for open-ended creation...more than a craft project and perfect for bulletin boards #finemotor #preschool

The flowers look amazing when printed on brightly colored paper, but you can also print them on inexpensive white paper and add color with crayons or markers.

Kids will love these free flower theme printables. The flower activities will help them improve their cutting skills. These fun art activities ideas are a great addition to your flower theme, garden theme, or spring theme unit or lesson plans in your preschool, pre-k or kindergarten classroom. Better than worksheets, these flower templates are perfect for building scissor skills. Ideas for open-ended creation...more than a craft project and perfect for bulletin boards #finemotor #preschool

Encouraging Open-Ended Creation

Kids need to learn how to cut on lines, and this activity will provide them with an opportunity to practice this skill.  You can also use the template as the starting point for a beautiful work of art.  It’s easy to encourage open-ended creation while making flowers. Here are a bunch of ideas.

Cut Petals in a Unique Ways

  • clip off the corners of each petal
  • create rounded corners on the petals
  • cut fringe on the petals
  • trim the petals to make them shorter

Make 3-D Flowers

  • Fold the petals
  • Curl the petals
  • Stack flowers on top of one another

Kids will love these free flower theme printables. The flower activities will help them improve their cutting skills. These fun art activities ideas are a great addition to your flower theme, garden theme, or spring theme unit or lesson plans in your preschool, pre-k or kindergarten classroom. Better than worksheets, these flower templates are perfect for building scissor skills. Ideas for open-ended creation...more than a craft project and perfect for bulletin boards #finemotor #preschool

Add Additional Creative Materials

Give kids some blank sheets of paper, glue, and a variety of creative materials so that they can make an open-ended collage.  Here are some fun material ideas:

  • crayons, marker
  • hole punches
  • dot, shape, or bug stickers
  • plastic bottle caps
  • buttons
  • pom-poms
  • glitter glue
  • sequins
  • pipe cleaners

Kids will love these free flower theme printables. The flower activities will help them improve their cutting skills. These fun art activities ideas are a great addition to your flower theme, garden theme, or spring theme unit or lesson plans in your preschool, pre-k or kindergarten classroom. Better than worksheets, these flower templates are perfect for building scissor skills. Ideas for open-ended creation...more than a craft project and perfect for bulletin boards #finemotor #preschool

You can also use the flowers on bulletin boards and on blank books.  I hope that your kids enjoy using these flower templates to improve their cutting skills.

Hopefully, they bring a little bit of spring into your life and I can’t wait to hear how you use them.

Kids will love these free flower theme printables. The flower activities will help them improve their cutting skills. These fun art activities ideas are a great addition to your flower theme, garden theme, or spring theme unit or lesson plans in your preschool, pre-k or kindergarten classroom. Better than worksheets, these flower templates are perfect for building scissor skills. Ideas for open-ended creation...more than a craft project and perfect for bulletin boards #finemotor #preschool

Get Your Free Cutting Skills Practice Printable

The flowers look amazing when printed on brightly colored paper.  They have me longing to see fields of Texas wildflowers…..Come on spring!  Click on the link below, fill in the quick form, and I will send the cutting templates directly to your inbox.

Yes!  I want the Flower Cutting Templates!

Get More Flower Themed Resources

Check out the Flower Activity Bundle in my store for more hands-on flower-themed learning activities.

flower theme activity bundle

 

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  1. Barbara Lajabu says

    September 25, 2019 at 1:11 am

    Thank you very much l had run out of ideas on spring activities.

  2. Ibtesam Amin says

    April 3, 2019 at 1:11 pm

    This is a really nice activity I can do it with my kids I hope to get more and more ideas for spring and summer time. Thank you so much.

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