{"id":1125,"date":"2018-03-09T10:37:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T08:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/viaro.org\/unafinestraoberta\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2018-03-09T10:37:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T08:37:41","slug":"diy-cutting-busy-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viaro.org\/unafinestraoberta\/diy-cutting-busy-box\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY Cutting Busy Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Montessori inspired Printable Preschool Cutting Busy Box is a perfect scissor cutting activity for toddlers and preschool kids for fine motor skills.<\/p>\n<p>A Busy Box is essentially a box of supplies and materials designed to keep little ones busy \ud83d\ude09 Busy Boxes are great to have prepared for those times you need an activity for your kids.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acraftyliving.com\/cutting-busy-box\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1129 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/viaro.org\/unafinestraoberta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/cutting_busybox.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" height=\"1026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/viaro.org\/unafinestraoberta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/cutting_busybox.jpg 564w, https:\/\/viaro.org\/unafinestraoberta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/cutting_busybox-165x300.jpg 165w, https:\/\/viaro.org\/unafinestraoberta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/cutting_busybox-563x1024.jpg 563w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cutting develops bilateral coordination, hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills. The skills learned within cutting is also preparing your child for writing skills &amp; the manipulation of pencils &amp; crayons.<\/p>\n<p>If you prepare the box and the different items to cut, it will be a very simple activity for the moment you want to use it. All you need is the Cutting Busy Box, some kids scissors and the fun can start!\u00a0You can use a container with separate sections to hold each item and it will be more organized.<\/p>\n<p>For Toddlers starting using scissors, try offering materials to tear &amp; snip, like<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Play dough rolled into snakes. This is easy to hold and snip.<\/li>\n<li>Cooked Spaghetti<\/li>\n<li>Thick strips of construction paper \u2013 then gradually move onto thinner\u00a0paper such as shredded newspaper or magazines, etc<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1126\" src=\"https:\/\/viaro.org\/unafinestraoberta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/cut_playdoh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/viaro.org\/unafinestraoberta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/cut_playdoh.jpg 500w, https:\/\/viaro.org\/unafinestraoberta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/cut_playdoh-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For advanced Toddlers &amp; Preschoolers, try:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Straws<\/li>\n<li>Stringed Beads<\/li>\n<li>Magazines &amp; Junk Mail<\/li>\n<li>Shredded Newspaper<\/li>\n<li>Flower Petals, Herbs &amp; Leaves \u2013 Create a natural Cutting Tray\u00a0using collected treasures from a nature walk.<\/li>\n<li>Paper Plates<\/li>\n<li>Cupcake Liners<\/li>\n<li>Foam<\/li>\n<li>Wrapping Paper<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1128\" src=\"https:\/\/viaro.org\/unafinestraoberta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/cuttingtable.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/viaro.org\/unafinestraoberta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/cuttingtable.jpg 564w, https:\/\/viaro.org\/unafinestraoberta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/cuttingtable-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Your children will enjoy this activity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Montessori inspired Printable Preschool Cutting Busy Box is a perfect scissor cutting activity for toddlers and preschool kids for fine motor skills. A Busy Box is essentially a box of supplies and materials designed to keep little ones busy \ud83d\ude09 Busy Boxes are great to have prepared for those times you need an activity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[77,141,189,208],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/viaro.org\/unafinestraoberta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/cutting_busybox.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viaro.org\/unafinestraoberta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viaro.org\/unafinestraoberta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viaro.org\/unafinestraoberta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viaro.org\/unafinestraoberta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viaro.org\/unafinestraoberta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/viaro.org\/unafinestraoberta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viaro.org\/unafinestraoberta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viaro.org\/unafinestraoberta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viaro.org\/unafinestraoberta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viaro.org\/unafinestraoberta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}