Scissor Skills Sticky Window Mural

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Lately, Mr. Q has been working on his scissors skills. He has had so much fun ripping, snipping, and cutting, all the while leaving a trail of paper behind him. Providing open-ended creative activities such as this Scissor Skills Sticky Window Mural is a great way to encourage kids to continue to build upon their skills while controlling the mess.

Providing open-ended creative activities such as this Scissor Skills Sticky Window Mural is a great way to encourage kids to continue to build upon their skills while controlling the mess.

Set up for this activity was really simple and all the kids (ages 1 to 8) enjoyed contributing to the collage.

Items Needed to Create a Sticky Window Mural

  • Contact Paper (buy here)
  • Tissue Paper (buy here)
  • Construction Paper (buy here)
  • Scissors (buy here)
  • Random Small Parts

Providing open-ended creative activities such as this Scissor Skills Sticky Window Mural is a great way to encourage kids to continue to build upon their skills while controlling the mess.

For ours, I accidently picked up one-sided contact paper so I had to use a heavy-duty tape to attach it to our screen door.

How to Use a Sticky Window Mural to Work on Scissor Skills

Since this was the first time we have ever played with contact paper, I set out our creation tray with a handful of random small parts such as buttons and pom-poms in addition to the paper so that the kids could fully explore how the sticky wall worked. It didn’t take long for them to dive in and start playing.

Providing open-ended creative activities such as this Scissor Skills Sticky Window Mural is a great way to encourage kids to continue to build upon their skills while controlling the mess.

Mr. Q had a blast pressing on the various colored papers and then peeling them off, watching the colors rip and stick.

Providing open-ended creative activities such as this Scissor Skills Sticky Window Mural is a great way to encourage kids to continue to build upon their skills while controlling the mess.

The packet of tissue paper we used for this activity came pre-cut into small squares which I was not too fond of.

Providing open-ended creative activities such as this Scissor Skills Sticky Window Mural is a great way to encourage kids to continue to build upon their skills while controlling the mess.

But, Q still had a blast with this simple scissor skills activity. Earlier in the week he had seen me working on a seating chart which he quickly began to copy.

Providing open-ended creative activities such as this Scissor Skills Sticky Window Mural is a great way to encourage kids to continue to build upon their skills while controlling the mess.

Despite the small size of the tissue papers, he still worked very hard on his cutting skills.

Providing open-ended creative activities such as this Scissor Skills Sticky Window Mural is a great way to encourage kids to continue to build upon their skills while controlling the mess.

Even if it was tricky =) The next time we do this activity I will definitely be using homemade colored tissue papers.

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Providing open-ended creative activities such as this Scissor Skills Sticky Window Mural is a great way to encourage kids to continue to build upon their skills while controlling the mess.

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