My girls are not proficient with scissors. Daphne can't open and close them at all and Naomi has a fairly difficult time figuring them out. In her defense, I haven't done a whole lot of cutting exercises with her, and she is just three... This sensory tub activity is supposed to help with scissors skills. I put a couple hundred stirring straws into the tub with a couple pairs of scissors and let them have fun. Naomi cut for a while and Daphne held the straws and told me where to cut. I've read that the straws will morph into another activity when they become little pieces. I've also read it is good to have multiple sizes of straws so the kids can do things like put one inside the other, etc.
Of course, once they were tired of cutting they moved on to this
And this
I plan on keeping all the straws in a large ziplock bag. When they are too small to cut anymore we can use them like we would rice in the tub, or use them for artwork. I am assuming the giant bag of them that I bought at Costco will last years.
