Let's Cut Paper: Amazing Animals (Kumon First Steps Workbooks) Paperback – May 1, 2011

great for fine motor skills. love it.

My kids' preschool teachers are always talking about scissor practice being great for fine motor skills, plus my children both love cutting things up. This book is a great way to keep them interested and cutting things they are SUPPOSED to cut. ;) The book instructs parents to cut the project from the page for the child, but I just tear out an entire page and hand it to them, and that's one more line they get to cut. The pages are stiff enough to be easy for them to manage, but no so stiff as to be hard to cut. It is a bit basic for my 4 year old, so it's more a toy than educational for her, but I'll still buy more when they've finished chopping up this one because they enjoy it so much and it keeps them busy. I do have to hang around to tear out the pages, but it works well for when I'm cooking dinner and they want to hang out in the kitchen with me.

My granddaughter will love doing this as she learns how to use scissors!

Variety of different images and my toddler loves it.

High quality paper, cute bright pages and fun objectives that keeps my three year old engaged and learning how to use his motor skills to cut along the lines.

This book is cute and a great idea. I was so excited to have an activity book geared towards my 2.5 year old. But in his 2.5 year old logic, he doesn't want to cut the animals! I suspect this is just a stage, so we will have to try again later!

The kiddo loves these! I was told by his preschool teacher that he needed to work on his cutting and tried some printable worksheets with different lines and shapes to cut, but he was bored with these and cutting practice turned into a chore. I was so happy. When I stumbled across this line of books. This particular one really captured my 5 year old's attention and he now begs to do his "cutting homework" he does a couple pages everyday and his cutting has significantly improved. I like how it progresses in difficulty- gives my son the right amount of a challenge without being frustrating. Overall, it would highly recommend to parents, teachers and care givers! Cutting practice is often overlooked by parents when preparing their kiddos for school- don't make the same mistake I did! I felt quite silly having focused all my attention on learning the alphabet, name writing, numbers, shapes etc. and having my child not know how to hold a pair of scissors lol Don't beat yourself up if you're like me though , kids learn fast!

This is my fourth Kumon cutting book and I love them all. I like that this is a half-size book because my son has an easier time rotating the pages while cutting. Each page features an animal and make for fun pretend play after cutting out. Most of the time your child is just asked to cut along the lines, but there is also a bit of folding or glue/taping pieces together after cutting. Each page offers tips for the parents at the top as well as a "finished" picture.My son loves these books and if I don't limit him would easily go through the whole book in a couple days.