Between the ages of 3 and 4, children begin to acquire increasingly complex manual skills, including the use of scissors.
Learning to cut with scissors is another step in its development, but a giant step, since the use of this instrument requires the maximum coordination between the brain and the hand.
Achieving mastery with a certain skill indicates that the child has reached a good level of manual dexterity. But like everything in children's learning, the correct use of scissors is a process.
Young children still do not have the motor skills needed to trim with scissors. If we give a scissor to a two-year-old child, he will most likely not know what to do with them.
The pre-cut training with scissors is to rip large pieces of paper with your fingers and gradually do it with smaller and smaller papers, as well as to separate punched papers with your fingers.
There are special scissors for children that begin to use them. They are plastic scissors without edge, that only cut paper and thin cardboard, but nothing more. It is a good way to exercise the movement of the hand without being harmed.
Keep in mind that scissors are a dangerous instrument because it has sharp parts. Caution must be maximum to avoid accidents.
Around 3 years they start using rounded tip scissors. Little by little they acquire more skill and around four years are able to cut in a straight line. Then they will perfect the cut and outline the figures. You will see that at first they take the scissors with tense hands doing very strange positions (and almost always stick out their tongues) until they manage to master them.
A good exercise to perfect the use of scissors It can be to create collages with shapes cut by children, trim magazines that we no longer use, trim eva rubber sheets (colored foam) to make crafts or color drawings and then trim them.
There are scissors for children very funny, with and without edge according to what ages, with forms of waves, spikes ... It is important that they are plastic and that their size is suitable for their small hands.
And watch, while they use the scissors they have to be always guarded so that they are not harmed and because they have an incredible speed to cut clothes and hair.
