Preschool Cut and Paste Worksheets

Every activity in this book is scissors work for young children, and the cover marks it for ages 3 to 5. Each page has one job, printed in a box at the bottom, and a gray dashed line shows exactly where to cut.

Four levels, one after another

The pages climb in four levels, and the level is printed at the top of each page.

• Little Cutters (7 pages) is cutting practice: straight and slanted lines, a curvy road, a zigzag mountain, then simple shapes, weather pictures, fruit and animals to cut around.
• Smart Cutters (17 pages) adds pasting. Ten pages are build-the-picture puzzles where 3 to 6 pieces go onto an outline, from an apple to a robot and a house. Seven more match pictures to outlines, shadows, missing halves, patterns, colors, shapes and first letters.
• Puzzle Builders (15 pages) is sorting and ordering: big or small, land or water, hot or cold, living or not living, then steps like planting a seed, washing hands or building a snowman, pasted into numbered boxes.
• Creative Makers (19 pages) opens up. Seven scene pages give a background and six pieces to paste anywhere, a farm, an ocean, a birthday party. Eight think-and-solve pages ask for the odd one out, the next shape in a pattern or the card with the right count. The last four let a child build a robot, a friendly monster, a rainbow world and a free scene.

A certificate for the finished book closes it out.

Setting up a session

You need child-safe scissors with rounded tips and a glue stick. The printing guide recommends thicker paper or light cardstock, cutting all the pieces out first and laying them out before any glue comes out, and having an adult close by. It also suggests printing a page twice if a child wants another go later.

Keep the printer at full size. With Fit to Page the pieces shrink and no longer fit the spaces they belong in.

Questions

What do we need besides the printout?

Child-safe scissors with rounded tips and a glue stick. The printing guide advises against liquid glue because it soaks through and curls the page, and suggests thicker paper or light cardstock.

Is the ink saver edition the same book?

Almost. It has the same activities with very little color fill. The one page that asks a child to match pictures to red, yellow and blue boxes is redrawn to sort spots, stripes and plain tiles instead, so it still works without color.