Looking for an easy craft for that preschooler that LOVES to use scissors?  Here's a good one that is also great for fine motor development!

Materials:

• Orange, black and green construction paper.
• Larger piece of  kraft paper or poster paper
• Black pen
• Light gel pen or paint
• Child's blunt end safety scissors
• White glue or glue stick.

Instructions:

1. Draw the outline of a pumpkin on the orange construction paper with a black pen.  (Make the pumpkin round and simple with little detail for ease of cutting.)
2. Draw the outline of a jack-o-lantern eyes, nose, and mouth on a piece of black construction paper with a light gel pen or light paint pen to show up against the black.  (Use either circular shapes or triangles for ease of cutting.)
3. Draw the outline of some leaves and a square stem on the green construction paper.  (Make these easy to cut as well.  On the example that I show, I drew heart shaped leaves....but I cut them out myself.)
4. Instruct your child to cut around the pumpkin and the eyes, nose and mouth with the safety scissors.
5. You may opt to cut out the leaves while your child is cutting the easier pieces.
6. Allow your child to glue the leaves and other features on the pumpkin as they wish.  (Sometimes your pumpkin won't always look like a traditional one.) 
7. Hang in your house for a great Fall/Autumn decoration!   

This is one part in a series of guides for Preschool Enrichment.  For more information on Fine Motor Development, please see my guide Preschool Enrichment: Fine and Gross Motor Development.

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Copyright 2006 Angela Vawter (hugawayfromhome)