6 Fun Printable Cutting Practice Activities for Your Kids
Are you looking for fun ways to help your kids boost their cutting skills? Printable cutting practice activities are a great way to help your kids develop their scissor skills. From simple printable cutting worksheets to more complex cut-and-paste crafts, I’m sure you will find the perfect cutting practice printables for your young children.
How Do You Practice Cutting Skills?
Developing scissor skills is an important fine motor skill for young learners. Kids need to take time to practice their cutting skills. When kids find cutting difficult, sometimes it becomes difficult to motivate them to practice. That’s why this printable cutting practice activity can be so helpful.
Simple Printable Cutting Practice Worksheets
You can use simple cutting practice worksheets and snipping strips to help your kiddos with their scissor skills development. Look for printable worksheets in a variety of different themes so that you can find something that will excite and motivate your kids.

For beginners, look for snipping practice printables. Once your kids master snipping cutting strips, you can challenge them with more challenging cutting practice sheets to cut simple straight paths, curved paths, and then more complex paths like wavy lines or zig-zags.

It’s easy to help your kids work on things like proper use of scissors, holding scissors and scissor skill development while they use simple cutting worksheets.
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Printable Cutting Practice – Fold-and-Cut Activities
Printable worksheets are great, but I find that kids get more excited when their cutting has a purpose….when they are cutting to create something.
That’s why kids LOVE practicing scissor skills with these fold-and-cut activities.
All you need is a printable sheet and a pair of scissors, and kids will be motivated to practice cutting. Let me show you how to use printable fold and cut activity sheets. Your kids will have so much fun!
Here’s a video of a few of the fold-n-cut activities
You can make your own fold and cut activities by tracing half a shape onto a piece of folded paper. The printable fold and cut activities pictured are part of my Seasonal Fold and Cut Activities set.
The set includes 38 printable pages with various shapes for all seasons (spring, summer, winter, fall, Halloween, Christmas…etc). The variety of shapes means there are, different types of lines to cut, and many levels of difficulty for your kids.
The printable Fold and Cut Sheets are very easy to prep for your kids…which makes them a fun & quick great fine motor craft or activity. Each of the designs print 2 per page. So, all you need to do is:
- cut the pages in half
- fold on the dotted line
Once the activity is prepared, it’s time to start cutting!
Have the child hold the paper so that the design is facing up. They can cut on the lines with scissors.
Now is the FUN part. Are you ready for it?
It’s time for the BIG REVEAL! When kids finish cutting, show them how to unfold the paper. Be sure to watch their faces as they unfold their paper. I LOVE watching the excitement on their little faces! This fun activity gives little kids a great sense of accomplishment.
After opening the paper, they can get creative with crayons, markers, glitter, yarn, torn paper, etc.

Kids will be motivated to cut different shapes, so you can repeat the steps with other designs or printable sheets. I had fun creating lots of options for the whole year. From easy printable Valentine crafts to fall leaves and winter hats, you will find printable cut-out activities for all seasons.

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Use Printable Cut and Paste Activities for Cutting Practice
A simple cutting and pasting activity can be an easy and effective tool to help your kids get needed cutting practice, and they provide a fun way to work on hand-eye coordination. Look for a cut-and-paste activity with straight lines for beginning cutters.
I designed these half-sheet cut and paste worksheets to help young students practice the important skill of using scissors. Five small images separated by dashed lines are on the bottom of each of the fun pages. Kids can cut out the images and paste them onto the larger picture at the top of the page. Print these on white paper, and you will also have great little coloring pages.
I love that these little cutting and pasting activity sheets can easily differentiated. More advanced cutters can cut the images apart on their own. But, you can prep the activity for beginning cutters by cutting the strip of little images off the page. Then, kids just need to strip the images apart.
Cutting and Pasting Puzzles
Here is another good cutting practice activity for your kids. These cut-and-paste puzzles come in many different levels. The easier puzzles have simple, straight lines, and they progress to puzzles with more pieces with more complex lines.

In addition to being a great tool for working on scissor skills, these puzzles are terrific hands-on activities for working on problem-solving skills.
Cutting Practice with Printable Craft Activities
Printable fine motor crafts are an extremely versatile tool. I designed the great cut and paste craft printables to help kids build fine motor skills in an exciting way.
They will build scissor skills as they cut out the parts of each craft. You can differentiate the project by pre-cutting the more complex shapes if needed.

In addition to cutting practice, the printables include dotted lines for tracing practice so that they can work on their pencil grip and strengthen the small muscles in their hands and fingers.
Because so many kids need to build hand strength and finger strength, each printable craft also has circles that kids can punch out with a hole punch. Did you know that hole punch activities are great for building hand strength?
Want to see what types of crafts you can get for cutting practice? Check out this article on printable fine motor crafts for kids.
Benefits of Printable Cutting Practice Activities for Kids
There are many benefits of this printable cutting practice activities for kids. These activities:
- help improve fine motor skills and build fine motor muscles
- help develop scissor skills
- build confidence
- are motivating and satisfying
- can be done again and again …… your kids will love them
Additional Cutting Practice Activities
If you’re looking for more printable cutting practice activities for kids, be sure to check out the following activities as well.
- 40+ Ideas for Cutting Practice
- Fun Scissor Practice With Mini Cutting Books
- The Best Way To Teach Kids To Make Paper Snowflakes
- Find The Best Cutting And Pasting Activities For Preschoolers
- Improve Cutting Skills With A Free Flower Printable
- 25 Activities To Help Preschool Kids Build Scissor Skills
- Preschool Name Craft Activities
- Printable Cut and Paste Puzzles
Printable Cutting Practice Activities In The Store
Printable cutting practice activities are a great way to help your kids develop their scissor skills. All you need is a printable sheet and a pair of scissors. These activities also improve fine motor skills, develop scissor skills, and build confidence. They are motivating and satisfying, and your kids will do them again and again.
Print out some fold and cut activity sheets today and let your kids have fun while they practice their cutting skills.
Are you ready to get started on some fold and cut activities with your kids? Check out these great printables in the store.
Purchase Printable Cutting Practice Activities on TPT
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