Scissor Practice in PreK

Children in prek are cutting, tearing and cutting. We practiced using a blunt scissor and cutting 'invented shapes'. When you do not focus on the shape being a perfect 'math shape' children are more apt to try. Parents, please support this effort by setting time aside at home for your child to cut anything using a child-safe scissor. Fiskars make great child scissors. If your child is left-handed, please make sure to get the left handed scissors.

Above is a detail on a collage made by a child. During recap of the lesson we played 'art detective' and children had to guess whether the side of the paper was cut or torn and explain why they thought the way they did.
The artist above chose to 'overlap' her pieces; which are mostly torn.
We also tried to figure out which pieces were placed first and last and to explain their ideas of why they felt the way they did.
At the end of the lesson, children got to see their work hung beside each other's. They look fantastic. We also touched slight on basic composition concepts.