Leaf Hair Salon: A Cutting Activity

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Get out in nature and stir up some pretend play with this adorable leaf cutting activity from Francis.

We have recently moved houses and we’re blessed to have a lovely garden! We’ve been busy exploring all the different plants and flowers, which led us to this fun cutting activity.

Melissa loves to use her scissors, which is a good fine motor work to strengthen little hands and fingers.

Great to build fine motor skills, here are 5 more cutting activities!

Materials for your Leaf Hair Salon:

• Different sized leaves
• School glue (or PVA glue)
• Scissors (we love these Fiskars
• Googly eyes
• Play dough (we used homemade play dough)
• Marker

We collected different sized and shaped leaves and glued pairs of googly eyes on each one (like our fall leaf people craft!)

Leaves are wonderful for so many crafts and activities (and so beautiful!)

I drew different lines on the leaves so she could cut along them, giving all our leafy friends a good haircut!

If your child has an older sibling, you can also hand over the marker and let them get creative with drawing the haircut lines.

It was a fun way to challenge her cutting skills. The zig-zag was the one that challenged her the most.

Each leaf had a ball of homemade playdough to stand on displaying their brand new haircuts!

Does your child have a favorite non-paper cutting activity? I’d love to hear in the comments.

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