Cutting Practice: Shapes

About this worksheet

“Cutting Practice: Shapes” is sheet 7 of 23 in our free Pre-K Fine Motor Skills Worksheets collection, written for children aged 3–5. It focuses on scissor skills, one of four sheets in the set on that skill.

In the set it comes after “Drive Along the Road” and before “Maze: Help the Bee”. Working through them in that order, one sheet a day, builds the skill a step at a time.

More scissor skills worksheets

The other Pre-K Fine Motor Skills sheets on scissor skills, in the order they are meant to be done.

• Cutting Practice: Straight Lines
• Cutting Practice: Curves and Zigzags
• Cutting Practice: Wavy Lines

How to use this worksheet

1. 1

   Use child-safe scissors and show the "thumb on top" grip. Cutting a straight line is the first goal; curves come later.

2. 2

   Short crayons encourage a better grip than long ones — snap a crayon in half for tracing sheets.

3. 3

   Let your child trace a shape with a finger first, then with a crayon, then with a pencil.

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  Trace the Shapes

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  Dot-to-Dot Star: 1 to 10

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  Color Inside the Lines

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  Drive Along the Road

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  Maze: Help the Bee

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  Circles and Spirals

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  Dot-to-Dot House: 1 to 10

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  Trace the Zigzags