fun with scissors

Back when I was considering preschool for this year for Dennis, I learned that the skills he would have been taught included learning his shapes and colors and cutting with scissors. He knows his shapes and colors and so I decided to work with him on the scissors thing. I bought him some kid-friendly scissors and he picked right up on what to do. Later, as I was cleaning the kitchen, I realized that I hadn't seen or heard from Dennis in a while. I found him in our library/study, sitting up at the high stool at the drafting table. He was using big scissors (not kid safety scissors) to cut white paper. He smiled at me and said "Look, Mommy, I made a paper snowflake for you!". I saw what he held--a sheet of copy paper that he had made slits in all the way around the edges, a four-sided paper rectanglular snowflake I checked his little hands for any cuts and didn't see anything. He was so proud of himself and I vowed to do a better job hiding the scissors!