Cutting Skills & Lunch Time

This is lunch.

This is also cutting practice.

As we work on preschool skills with Monkey and Crackers, cutting seems important.  Not only is it important, it is something they enjoy doing.  Mama likes to give them fun ways to practice.

For today's lunch, Monkey practiced cutting with scissors by turning his turkey into bite sized pieces.  He is getting to be great at using scissors!

Both of the boys had the opportunity to cut food and spread dip using a butter knife.  It's still pretty tricky for them, and Crackers needed some help figuring out that we don't use knives like spoons.  

Simple, free, tasty education for my boys!

Practice Paper

Monkey is learning to cut!  We've been working on this off and on for a while and he just really struggles with the coordination, and getting the right angle on the paper.  It's a tough skill!  Tonight at dinner he noticed some scissors and picked up the tortilla that he decided not to eat.  He looked at me and said, "wanna cut".  You know what?  Kid's scissors work GREAT on corn tortillas for my little man.  Corn tortillas are stiff enough not to fold in half when he cuts, and soft enough that he can cut through them.  He had a fantastic time cutting his tortilla into little bits!