CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Learning to cut using scissors develops your child’s fine motor skills and coordination. Because they are developing muscles they haven’t used in this way before, it requires lots and lots of practice. Be patient and encouraging as you help them learn to use scissors.

Detailed explanation-2: -Fine motor skills involve the use of the smaller muscle of the hands, commonly in activities like using pencils, scissors, construction with lego or duplo, doing up buttons and opening lunch boxes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Properly using scissors is a complex skill that utilizes hand strength, bilateral coordination, hand-eye coordination, sequencing, and focus. Achieving these skills takes practice and repetition and will help children during learning and play.

Detailed explanation-4: -Cutting with scissors is an important fine motor exercise, as it strengthens the fingers that are needed to control the pencil, and also helps develop stability on the ulnar side of the hand (the little finger side of the hand). This can help children with other fine motor skills, including handwriting.

Detailed explanation-5: -In order to follow lines and shapes and to cut them out with scissors, you need to have visual perception (be able to see the shape that you are cutting), and visual motor integration (eye-hand coordination).