Today is a very exciting day for this OT Mama. At 32 months, Janie was introduced to scissors today and totally crushed it! I taught her to place her middle finger in the second hole instead of the index finger because it gives her more control. By the time she was done playing this evening, she was able to put the scissors on her fingers correctly about 75% of the time. Not bad! She also learned the right way to cut by pointing her thumb up. Developmentally, kids want to pronate their forearms and cut with the thumb pointing down but it’s not very effective later when it comes time to cut lines and shapes.
Janie worked on snipping on the edge of the paper today and really enjoyed it.
Ama bought us a Crayola art set a few months ago and it had these scissors that I’ve been saving for the right time. They’re actually pretty cool – plastic, doesn’t have sharp edges, but cuts construction paper really well!
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