Simple Craft for Kids Who Love Stickers! Ages 2-5

Teaching scissor skills at home is a great way to have fun with very young children and is a healthy for their growth and development. These are skills they will be learning in pre school and kindergarten so give them a head start while spending time together.

We started off with a sheet of paper. I had a stack of sticker sheets with various sized stickers. I gave her only one at a time. She wanted to cluster them together so I made suggestions about where to place them so they would be spaced apart.

Before she got too many on the sheet I placed scissors on the table next to her and she didn't need instructions, she just started cutting and I encouraged her to keep going.

I expected her to cut them out with a large boarders but she surprised me and carefully trimmed many of the stickers. I let her do as she pleased.

All the while I asked her to put all the cut pieces and stickers into a container.

Then I let her mix it up. After she got her fill of that I played a game with her by asking her to find a certain sticker.

While she played in the container I made this strip and marked on the lines. When she was ready I asked her to cut on the lines and add the stickers to her box.

She did so well following the lines I made a second strip with more challenging lines.

Then we played the game again. After a while she pretended to be mixing up food for cooking.

Cutting out stickers is an activity I have done with all three of my children at age 2. Each one loved doing this. Older children can do this too and it can be an opportunity to practice so many skills. You could count the stickers, you could sort the stickers, or use stickers related to a topic you'd like to talk about such as understanding the four seasons of the year.


For best results:

Children (at least mine) seem to cut better while standing, so I position them at a table. We have a child sized table in our classroom/craft room but a coffee table would be a good height.

For a beginning cutter, do not use thin paper, it's difficult to cut. Construction paper on the other hand takes to much muscle. The best paper to use is copy paper from your printer.

I start my kids using scissors at age 2, and I skip the safety scissors designed to prevent nicks because they are too blunt to cut causing frustrations. A child might nick themselves but they won't bleed to death and it has never deterred my kids from crafting.

And here is a little peak at how I store my  stickers. I use stickers for so many things with the kids and I buy way too many. I have them organized and grouped in sheet protecters in three ring binders.

Where I get my supplies:

The Dollar Tree is a great source for cute affordable paper.

I buy my scissors from the Dollar Tree year round and from Walmart at the beginning of school season when everything is at a good price. I like to pay .50 - $1 each for kid size scissors. The scissors used in the photos were a 2pk for $1 at Dollar Tree I picked up just last weekend and are great.

The Dollar Tree is also great for buying stickers. No where else have I found stickers for such a great price let alone the variety. You can score $1 holiday sticker booklets from the Target Dollar section on sale for 50℅ - 75% off end of season. Same thing at Michael's and Hobby Lobby.