—12 minArtDevelopmental playFamily time
Fringe Forest Snips
A closely supervised snipping game where your child practises opening and closing child-safe scissors with one hand to make ‘grass’ fringe and quick playdough snips, building coordination and stamina.
What you'll need
Essentials
- child-safe scissors
- paper strips (scrap paper, magazine pages, or junk mail)
- a flat table/tray surface
Nice to have
- tape (to stop paper sliding)
- a marker to draw a simple ‘stop line’
- playdough or homemade dough
Movement level: low
What you'll do
The 4-step guide, with what to look for at each step, is for signed-in parents.
What this develops
What it practices
- Uses one-handed tools and equipment, e.g. makes snips in paper with child scissors.Observable behaviour from Development Matters
- Holds pencil between thumb and two fingers, no longer using whole-hand grasp.Observable behaviour from Development Matters
- Draws lines and circles using gross motor movements.Observable behaviour from Development Matters
Where it comes from
- Source
- Development Matters in the EYFS (DfE, 2012)
- License
- Open Government Licence v3.0
- Attribution
- © Crown Copyright 2012 (Development Matters in the EYFS, DfE) — construct-derived activity authored from enriched DM2012 construct