Paper Cutting Crafts for Kids: Easy Crafts to Build Fine Motor Skills

When children engage in paper cutting crafts & activities, they’re not just making cute crafts; they’re developing important fine motor skills. From strengthening their hand muscles to mastering the art of cutting, each snip and cut is a step toward dexterity and precision.

In addition, paper cutting crafts are a great way to encouraging artistic expression.

Let’s take a look at 3 different types of paper cutting crafts for kids that you can use to help develop scissor skills. You and your kids are going to have so much fun with these cute paper craft ideas!

Fold and Cut Craft Activities

These fun and easy paper crafts are extremely motivating for young children. There are a variety of printable template images, from simple shapes to more complex ones with different levels of difficulty for kids.

If your child struggles with one template, just try another one.

Kids cut out the lines on a folded piece of paper and then open it to reveal a cut-out image. There is a variety of different images that will give kids an opportunity to practice straight lines, curved lines, and more.

I LOVE watching their faces as they open the paper to reveal the image.

You can use the activity in it’s simplest form ….as a cut out craft for kids. But, you can also step it up a notch and use the cut-out as the starting point for a cool art project. Supply crayons, glue and basic craft supplies for your kids to add to the cutout shape to make their own designs.

Wanna see the printable fold-and-cut crafts in action? Here is a video.

There are many possibilities with these fun paper crafts. Kids can paint, color, or add enhancements to the image. You can string multiple cut out crafts together to create a banner. You can also use this as a cutting and pasting activity by pasting the image to a piece of base paper background.

Simple Cut and Paste Craft Pages

Here is an easy peasy paper-cutting craft. The fun activity is great for kids just learning to cut with scissors, and it’s perfect for working on hand-eye coordination – essential skills for young learners. Cut some colorful strips of paper with a paper cutter. Give your kids some of the strips and a simple printable image.

The images pictured were actually created for paper tearing activities, but they also work well for cutting crafts. You kids can snip a strip of paper into small pieces and then paste the pieces of paper onto the image.

The result is a beautiful collage craft. It’s a fun addition to any thematic lesson, and it’s an easy way to have new seasonal crafts and cutting activities for the entire year.

More Paper Cutting Crafts for Kids

Printable fine motor crafts also provide opportunities to hone cutting skills.

Beginning cutters will enjoy snipping the images on the little snipping lines. Kids can also practice cutting a variety of lines as they cut out all the craft pieces.

These paper crafts are designed to be fine motor activities. In addition to cutting, your kids can trace lines and maybe work on a new skill – hole punching as they complete these fun projects.

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