We haven’t done cutting practice in a while, so today, I have a set of Catching Fireflies Cutting Practice Puzzles for you!
If you’ve been following along for a while, you know that I first came up with cutting practice puzzles when E kept The issue of having random little bits of paper on the floor has cropped up again in our house – this time from 3.5-year-old N’s personal cutting practice. Unfortunately, he’s not quite ready for cutting the cutting practice puzzles yet, so we’ll just have to continue to clean up the bits of paper for a while. But E still likes to do the cutting and then proudly presents the puzzles to N to put together 🙂
(E was 7 years old. N was 3.5 years old.)
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Materials for Catching Fireflies Cutting Practice Puzzles
Printable PDF file (see below).- Printer.
- Laminator, laminating pouches (optional).
- Scissors.
- Paper.
What’s in the printable PDF file?
The printable includes a total of 12 cutting practice puzzles on six pages (two puzzles per page). There are four different images (boy holding a jar while looking at a firefly, girl surprised that a firefly landed on her hand, girl holding a jar with a firefly, boy holding a jar and running after a firefly) that each comes in three versions: straight cutting lines, curved cutting lines, and zigzag cutting lines.
After printing out the page(s) you want to use, you can cut out the two puzzles that are on the same page at the straight lines around the image if you’d like or go the no prep route and leave this step to the kids.
If you want the puzzle to be reusable after cutting, you can laminate for better durability.
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