Spider Cutting Practice Printables – Picklebums
These free spider cutting practice printables are a fun way to get your kids working on their scissor skills!
With two types of ‘print and go’ cutting sheets – cut along the web, and snipping strips, these spider scissor skills worksheets are a fun way for kids to work on their cutting skills.
Learning Areas:
fine motor
Whether your kids are interested in arachnids, or perhaps you are doing a mini beasts learning them, or you need a quick and easy activity for Halloween, these spider cutting practice printables are fabulous way to practice scissor skills.
All you need for this activity is the printable pages, and some scissors… and a container to put the cut pieces in!
For my kids who are new to using scissors I set up a table with a couple of copies of the snipping strips and some small bowls to put the snipped images into. The small strips are easy for little hands to hold and only need small snips to be successful so they are perfect for beginners.
For my pre-schoolers who are not new to scissors but still need some practice, I set up the table with a selection of web cutting strips to choose from. Cutting along the dotted spider web lines is not easy at first, so don’t worry too much about how close to the line the kids cut, focus more on holding the scissors correctly and how to hold and move the paper.
These printable cutting practice pages make a great small group activity in the classroom, or a fun quiet time activity that is perfect for early finishers.
At home you could easily set up a small tub with both the web cutting cards and the snipping strips and a pair of scissor as a great quiet time activity, or an easy way to work on fine motor skills.
Free Printable Spider Cutting Practice Pages
There are 2 pages of spider web cutting strips in this printable pack – one easy and one more of a challenge. Plus a bonus page of snipping strips with spiders, flies and webs!
For beginners printing on cardstock will make it easier for little hands to manage, then cut each web cutting strip and spider snipping strip into individual strips. Show your kids how to hold each strip and cut along the dotted web to the spider, and hold each strip and cut between each spider and fly.
This printable is an A4 sized pdf file, you will need a pdf reader such as adobe acrobat to open it. It will fit to print on US ‘letter sized’ paper, just be sure to select ‘fit’ or ‘shrink to fit’ from your printer options to allow for printer margins.
Tips and Extension Ideas:
- Check out our tips for teaching kids how to use scissors to make sure they are holding the scissors correctly and using them safely,
- Kids who are getting skilled with scissors can be challenged to cut along the web, around the spider and down the other side!
- Use the images cut from the snipping strip to make a collage
- Point out the repeating patterns of the images on the snipping strips and challenge your kids to recreate them after they have cut each image off the strip.
- Chat about how amazing spiders and their webs are. This book – The Secret World of Spider Webs – has amazing pictures and lots of interesting information!
