Paper Ornaments

This is an adaptable activity for kids for practicing scissor skills and learning about long and short.
From a parent or child care perspective, it is very inexpensive with supplies readily on-hand.

You will need:
paper- colored, white, or re-purposed paper from magazines, ads, fliers, old calendars, etc.
ruler
scissors
pencil
stapler      
hole punch
string

• Measure and trace 7 strips of paper with equal widths.
• You will need 2 long strips, 2 medium strips, 2 small strips and 1 very small strip.
• Depending upon the child's scissor skills, have them cut the strips and then cut them smaller as indicated by the pencil marks. Children learning to cut can start by just snipping at the pencil marks after the strips have been cut.
• After cutting strips hole punch an equal distance from the top for each strip- otherwise it will be difficult to hole punch through 7 sheets of paper.
• Have children pair up the strips with their "match". The smallest strip will not have a match. Line the strips up by smallest to longest from the smallest single strip.
• Take one of each pair and do this in the opposite manner going from smallest to longest to the left of the center small piece.

• Stack them starting from the left and placing the next strip on the right on top.
• When they are stack- line up the tops and staple (leaving room for a hole punch)
• Then line up from the bottom and staple.
• Loop some string through the hole and hang.