Your little one’s making the cut
Your child’s ability to use a pair of scissors is developing. With practice, they will learn to cut more accurately on a straight line (15 cm long) while staying within ½ cm of the line. Your child will get better at using the supporting hand to hold and rotate the paper, while the dominant hand opens and partly closes the scissors in a continuous movement to cut. Children at this age can typically cut a circle within 1 cm of the cutting line.
Four-year-olds are also able to learn how to copy a cross by drawing a vertical and a horizontal line while looking at an example. They can draw a picture of a person with four body parts and by their fifth birthday, they will be drawing people with 10 or more body parts.
Tip: Encourage repetition
Young children are mostly focused on what they are experiencing in the moment. To encourage them to repeat an action for the sake of practicing a new skill, it is important to present these repetitive exercises as either part of a game or steps required to complete a fun project.
A tried and tested way to get children of this age to practice their cutting skills is to work together on making a paper chain. Draw lines with a ruler on an A4 size of paper. Work together to cut them into strips. Use a stapler (or glue) to make rings that connect to create a chain.
Inspired by happy growing children, we bring you some of the 99+ ways you can choose to assist your child in growing up happy. Growing up happy starts in the tummy and grows from there! Because when your child feels right, you can enjoy every stage of them growing up happy.
A happy child is a child who grows well, explores and discovers the world with enthusiasm, and develops to his full potential day-by-day.
Just because you can’t go anywhere physically, doesn’t mean you can’t explore the world. Find educational sites that offer virtual visits like a zoo or a museum and take them through the visit. Then, you can have a session on “what did you learn from this visit?”
