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Making Roadways with Wallpaper Samples

April 28, 2013 by Sheryl Cooper

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Scissors skills: paper roadways
Making roadways with wallpaper samples was a last-minute idea I had when setting up our block area. I was cutting out rectangles from a book of textured wallpaper samples to use as play dough mats. As with many of my ideas, suddenly I looked over at the block area and wondered what would happen if I set out some strips of wallpaper. Would they use them as roadways?
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I invited the preschoolers over to this area by setting up a few of the roadways, leaving the rest in baskets.
Building scissors skills: paper roadways.
 Building scissors skills: paper roadways.
They got right to work, laying out the rest of the strips to lengthen their roads.
Building scissors skills: paper roadways.
 
Then they ran out of paper roads and wanted more.
Building scissors skills: paper roadways.
 
I decided to bring the book of wallpaper samples to the block corner along with a container of scissors.
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We all started cutting strips of wallpaper for roads!
 Building scissors skills: paper roadways.
The teacher in me was delighted to see such fun AND fine motor practice, especially from those who normally were not interested in using scissors.
 Building scissors skills: paper roadways.
We reused those roads for many weeks before they got a bit too crumpled. However, we can easily make more!
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About Sheryl Cooper

Sheryl Cooper is the founder of Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds, a website full of activities for toddlers and preschoolers. She has been teaching this age group for over 20 years and loves to share her passion with teachers, parents, grandparents, and anyone with young children in their lives.

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  1. Supriya Seo

    June 3, 2013 at 12:18 pm

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  2. Deborah Alter-Rasche

    September 3, 2013 at 3:31 am

    Thanks for linking this fun idea to Tuesday Tots. I’ve featured it this week 🙂

  3. Sheryl Cooper

    September 3, 2013 at 4:13 am

    Thank you for featuring this, Deborah!

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