Cut and Paste Activities to Boost Child’s Development

Creative Cut and Paste Printables

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Are you looking for fun and educational activities to keep your young ones entertained? Look no further! Cut and paste activities are a fantastic way to develop fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and creativity in young children. These activities are not only enjoyable but also play a crucial role in early childhood education.

At Kidscanhavefun.com, we offer a wide range of printable cut and paste activities designed to inspire and educate. From animal shapes to seasonal crafts, there’s something for every curious mind. These activities are perfect for young moms who want to nurture their children’s development through engaging and interactive learning.

Why Cut and Paste Activities Matter:
Cut and paste activities are essential for early childhood education because they help children develop a variety of skills. For instance, fine motor skills are crucial for tasks such as writing, buttoning clothes, and tying shoes. Hand-eye coordination is important for activities like catching a ball, drawing, and even reading. By engaging in cut and paste activities, children also learn to follow instructions, which enhances their ability to complete tasks independently. Moreover, these activities stimulate creativity and imagination, allowing children to express themselves in unique ways.

What You’ll Find:
Our website offers a diverse selection of printable cut and paste printables. Whether your child is interested in creating animal shapes, exploring seasonal crafts, or engaging in themed projects, we have something for everyone. These activities are designed to be both educational and entertaining, making learning a fun experience for your child. Some of our popular activities include cutting and pasting robot parts, creating circus scenes with clowns and fairground elements, and matching smiley faces.

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Cut and Paste Kindergarten, Preschool Worksheets

Fun Cut and Paste kindergarten worksheets with basic shapes to match colored shapes, fruit shapes, flower shapes and bug shapes.  Cut and paste colored shapes for your little Picasso.

Cut and Paste Bug Shapes

Kids find the correct shape to paste into the bug pictures.  Four simple shapes with circle, square, triangle and heart shapes.  Cute bugs with a bee, snail, spider and ladybug.  Each bug has a shape cut out from the middle of the picture that matches the colored shape.  Easy to cut and paste kindergarten bug shapes for the little ones.

cut and paste bug kindergarten shapes

Cut and Paste Fruit Shapes

Fun fruit pictures with fruit shapes in the middle.  Cut and paste four different fruit shapes into fruit.  Cut out a lemon shape and paste it into a pear or paste a banana shape into a strawberry.  Have the kids name their completed fruit.  How about a lemon pear, a strawberry banana or a pear apple.

cut and paste fruit shapes

Cut and Paste Flower Shapes

Cut and paste preschool activities with flowers circle, square, star and heart shapes.   Kids cut and paste the correct shapes that match the shapes inside the flowers.  Easy to recognize shapes for the younger kids.  Cut out all the shapes first before pasting into the correct flowers.  Have the kids match up the shapes first before pasting.

cut and paste flower shapes

Cut and Paste Colored Shapes

Cut and paste these fun shapes onto paper to build beautiful pictures, the possibilities are endless.  Kids learn to work with shapes and use their imagination.  Choose from colored shapes or shapes the kids can color.  Challenge the kids to see whether they know most of the shape names.  Have the children name each shape before pasting.  See some of our template designs to get the kids started.

cut and paste shapes

Cut and Paste Alphabet Letters, Preschool Worksheets, Learn the Alphabet

Cut and paste alphabet activities are for preschoolers and children learning the alphabet.   Use these activities to help the kids recognize uppercase and lowercase alphabet letters.  With cut and past ABC’s, kids learn how to print letters and spell using the alphabet.  Encourage the kids to sing the alphabet song so they remember all the letters of the alphabet.

Cut and Paste Alphabet Cards

Kids can Cut and Paste the Alphabet cards into the correct alphabet order with this Alphabet Activity.  Each card has the uppercase and lowercase alphabet letter to help kids recognize each case.  Have the child cut out each card and then paste them into the correct sequence box on the next page.  The cut and paste activity can also be used as a game by mixing up the alphabet cards and have the children place them in sequential order on a table.

Cut and Paste Alphabet with Letters and Pictures

Cut and Paste Apple Tree

This fun cut and paste apple tree activity has all the letters of the alphabet inside the apples.  Children cut out all the alphabet apples and paste them on the apple tree picture.  Paste the apples on the ground and all around the tree to fit all the alphabet apples.  Kids are challenged to spell the word “apple” with the letters and paste them on the tree.

For kids that need more of a challenge and are learning to write their alphabet letters, try the cut and paste alphabet apple printing tree activity.  This alphabet activity is the same as the one below except the kids write the letters in the apples.  Kids can be challenged to print all the uppercase letters on the apples and then print all of the lowercase letters.  Don’t forget to print extra pages of apples.

Cut and paste apple tree

Cut and Paste Animal Letters

Cut and paste the animals into the correct letter box.  Each letter box shows the uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet.  Encourage the children to cut out each animal and then sound out the name of the animal.  By sounding out the animals name the kids can think of the first sounding letter and then paste that animal into the correct alphabet letter box.  Print the “cut and paste animals by letter sheet” for this activity.  When the children have completed pasting all the animals, you can check their work by printing out the “cut and paste animals by letter completed” page below.

Cut and paste animals by letter

Cut and Paste with the Alphabet helps the kids with reading skills, writing skills and with developing their fine motor skills with cutting and pasting activities.

Cut and Paste Activities for Kids

Cut and Paste Printables with robots, clowns, fairground, circus show and smilies activities.  Kids love working with scissors and paste.  With cut and paste activities, kids can develop their fine motor skills when using scissors and pasting items onto paper.  Each activity helps them grow their ability to hold scissors while cutting.  Kids should always have proper supervision when using scissors and should only use child scissors to start with.  Scissors can be purchased for small hands in mind, they also have scissors that are made of plastic only and have no sharp edges.  Glue stick is best when starting kids off with pasting items.  Regular glue in a bottle can be messy while glue stick is in a cylinder container that is easier for the child to hold.  Glue sticks can  be purchased in different sizes to see which one is a better fit for the children’s hands.

Cut and Paste with Robots

Kids can cut and paste robot parts together to make their very own robots.  Cut out the robot parts and paste the parts together to make a robot.  Sample below shows examples of robots that can be pasted together.

cut and paste robot

Cut and Paste with Clowns, Fairground and Circus Show

Kids can cut out the black and white circus show pictures and paste on plain or colored paper to create a circus show.  Cut out fun colored fairground pictures with clowns, merry-go-rounds, fairground animals and fun rides to paste and create a fairground scene.  Choose from a variety of clowns to add to your cut and paste scenes.  There’s silly clowns, circus clowns, musical clowns and dressup clowns.  Cut out all the pictures and put together a cut and paste scene to show and tell.

cut and paste musical clowns
cut and paste fairgrounds

Cut and Paste with Smilies

Cut and paste smilies into a square box the same way you would play sudoku.   Cut out smilies and paste a matching smilie beside, below or above each smilie.  Each smilie must have a matching smilie beside it.  Hint: place smilies in boxes first before pasting.  A great cut and paste activity with challenge.  Even the grown ups can play.

cut and paste smilies

Cut and Paste School Worksheets, Educational Activities

Cut and Paste School Worksheets Activities

Cut, paste and sort classroom, school yard and school pictures into correct categories.  Start off with a cut and paste activity that matches school pictures with the correct shapes.  Kids can create their own school yard and classroom scenes with Cut and Paste School pictures that are pasted on plain sheets of paper.  Get to know all about your kids classmates with cut and paste classmates activity.  Help the kids learn about school before their first day or when returning back to school with Back to School cut and paste worksheets.

cut and paste school pictures activity

Cut and Paste School Room

Create a classroom with books, teacher, blackboards, desks, clock, apple, school bag, kids playing and classroom decorations.  Great activity for kids just entering school or preschool to help them learn more about classroom settings.   Parents and teachers can talk with the children and explain routines and what it will be like at school.  Kids at school can explain what a typical day is and how their classroom is set up.

school classroom cut & paste activity

Cut and Paste School Classmates

Learn all about the kids classmates with the cut and paste school classmates activity.  Kids cut out all the kids in their class and paste them onto the Classmates Page.  Encourage the kids to paste the classmates in the same order (row seat) that they sit at school.   When the pasting task is complete, they can color each classmate’s hair and print their names.   Kids can show and tell at school or home something about each classmate.  Ask questions such as how many boys and girls?  How many in total? How many with brown hair, blond hair, black hair?

school classmates activity

Cut and Paste School Yard

Have the kids cut out the school yard pictures and paste on colored or plain paper to create a school yard scene.  Choose from pictures with playground equipment, school house, kids playing, teacher on duty, school bus and a school yard apple tree.

school yard cut & paste activity

Cut and Paste School Sorting

Younger children can work with pencil cutouts by pasting pencils into the correct order from smallest to largest.  For kids returning to school there is a cut and paste back to school activity.  Cut out the school pictures and place them into the correct categories that you label with “School Supplies”, “Classroom”, and “Recess”.  Kids can color the pictures when they have completed all the groups.

cut and paste pencils by size

Cut and Paste Kids Worksheets, My Family Cut & Paste

Cut and paste kids worksheets with a variety of activities for cutting and pasting into correct categories. Activities include sorting groups into boxes such as friends, family and kids activities. There’s cut and paste kids faces with boys and girls, family members, pets and friends.

Cut and Paste Kids Activities

Cut and paste kids at play at home or outside.  Cut out girls skipping, playing hopscotch or wearing butterfly wings.  Cut and paste boys that are flying a paper airplane, catching butterflies or playing with a paper water boat.

Keep cutting and pasting with Friends where kids cut and paste their friends onto the Friends page.  Kids can print their friend’s name above each picture.

Cut and paste babies into their correct group.  Group the babies into the correct categories with happy babies, sleeping babies, scared babies and sad babies.

cut and paste babies activity
cut and paste babies worksheet

Cut and Paste Kids Faces

cut and paste girl face with eyes and mouth pieces

Cut and Paste Kids Family

Kids can display their family on paper with these cut and paste family worksheets that can include pets as well.  Start off by printing the family and pets.  Cut out the number of people that are in the family (print more copies if needed) and then paste them onto the family page and color.  Kids can expand the family to relatives or make up their own families during playtime.  Keep the kids engaged by having them talk about each family member while pasting.  Kids can answer questions such as what are their family’s favorite foods, colors, hobbies and sports.  Great activity at school to help kids talk about their families and share with the class.

cut and paste family worksheet

Find these and more worksheets with cut and paste activities.

Printable School Activities, Teachers & Students

Printable School Activities with Reading Printables

Print a variety of printable School Activities for the kids.  Help the kids with their reading by printing bookmarks, flashcards, storybooks, sight words, awards and other fun Reading Printables.  Start off the school year with helpful worksheets for teachers, students and parents that want to help kids succeed in school.

Printable School Activities with Sight Words Poster for Kids

Printable School Activities with Writing Activities

Brush up their printing skills with Writing Activities.  Here you can find fun activities for learning the alphabet and numbers with bookworm buddy – write me a story workbooks, letter and number code busters, games, flash cards, coloring, cut and paste, and more.  Kids can use our printable school ruled papers to practice their writing with everyday and seasonal writing papers. 

Educational Flash Cards for Kids

Books Activities for Kids

Visit our Books Activities to print out a variety of storybooks the kids complete, e-books they read, or cartoon comic books they create. 

printable school activities with bookworm books

Kids Tracing Activities

Tracing Activities with a variety to choose from with alphabet, numbers, words, colors, shapes and picture tracing worksheets.  Trace the pictures then color them.  Trace seasonal, sports and educational words with everyday and holiday themes.

Tracing Pages for kids

Printable School Activities for Teachers

We offer Printables for Teachers and parents to help with student achievement.  Decorate the classroom or house with these teaching resource stickups, hand out student achievement awards, graduation printables, teacher and recognition awards.  Use these school scrapbook pages to tell a story or add to school memory books.  Kids can use these fun cards to role play teacher or student. 

The Wheels on the Bus Play Signs

Printable Math Activities

Math is fun with these Printable Math Activities.  Kids can learn to add, count and multiply.  Understanding fractions and symmetry with pizzas, pictures and seasonal activities will be easier with these worksheets.  Learn the time with these fun clock time activities.  Print these character clocks and write down the correct time in quarter, half and hour times.  Kids will learn their primary and secondary colors with these colorful activities.  Color and trace pictures the right colors with color match.  Print and color school pictures and a variety of other themed pictures. 

Printable School Activities with Math Worksheets for Kids

Learning Colors

Get out the crayons and markers with these Learning Colors for Kids Activities. Coloring picture activites and learning primary and secondary colors activities will help kids recognize the main colors we see everyday.

Cut and Paste Monsters Worksheet

Cut and Paste Worksheets

Learn your cutting and pasting skills with Cut and Past Worksheets.  Use your scissors to cut and glue stick to paste these fun characters into their scenes.  Kids can improve their fine motor skills and learn their alphabet and numbers. 

Cut and Paste Worksheets for kids

All About Me Activities

Let family, friends and classmates know all about you with these All About Me Activities.  Get to know me booklets, my community, my body, my family and my country.  Print off some motivational calendars and activities for everyday tasks. 

All About Me Activities printables

Find these and so much more fun printable school activities.

Food Worksheets, Cut & Paste Activities, Food Pyramid

Food Worksheets with Cut and Paste Activities

Kids Cut and Paste Food Worksheets with a variety of food choices to cut up and paste. The kids can start off by cutting and pasting together a food pyramid with food choices that they think are best.  They can learn about food and ingredients with cut and paste mealtime, cut and paste salads and cut and paste pizza food worksheets.

Cut and Paste Food Pyramid

Teach kids the Food Pyramid with healthy food choices they cut out and paste into the pyramid to make up a balance daily diet.  Kids cut out all the food items and paste them into the correct food groups on the food pyramid diagram.  The food pyramid consists of 7 groups.

cut and paste food pyramid

Cut and Paste Fruit

There are two cut and paste fruit shapes food worksheets.  Cut out the fruit and paste them into the correct fruit shapes.  A perfect activity for the younger children.  The cut and paste fruit salad worksheet has a fruit bowl and fruit items that can be colored and then cut out to be pasted into the bowl.  When the food worksheets are done the children can display their fruit salad recipe on the fridge.

cut and paste fruit shapes

Cut and Paste Vegetables

Kids can cut up a vegetable salad and paste the items into a salad bowl.  First they will need to color the vegetables before cutting out.  Print more copies if you need more vegetables for your salad.

cut and paste salad bowl

Cut and Paste Pizza

The kids can make their very own pizza with the ingredients they like by cutting and pasting the food ingredients onto the pizza.  Next, challenge the kids with pizza fractions.  Cut and paste the pizza fourths and paste each fourth onto the pizza.  Each time a slice of pizza is pasted onto the pizza ask the children the fraction equivalent, i.e. what is one slice of pizza pasted? Is it  one-fourth of pizza?  Continue until all the pieces of pizza are pasted to make a whole pizza.

cut and paste pizza

Cut and Paste Mealtime

Cut and paste mealtime is a fun food worksheet activity for the kids.  With this activity worksheet, the kids can list the food items they would like for breakfast, lunch and Supper.  Kids start off by cutting all the food items they wish to paste under the three mealtime categories.  Remind them to choose wise choices that follows the recommended food guide for daily nutrition.  The kids can color the food items with they have completed the worksheet.  This activity can also be used to help with daily mealtime planning.

Help these chefs cook up some yummy deserts or main entrees by cutting out the menu items and pasting them onto the chefs platters to serve to the guests.  What have the chefs cooked up for us today?

cut and paste mealtime

Cut and Paste Desserts

Why not prepare an ice cream cone by cutting out and pasting the ice cream scoops onto the cones.  Make a super duper ice cream sundae with one of the cut and paste ice cream layers and don’t forget to put the cherry on top.  Use the same ice cream layers and toppings to make a sundae.  You might forget that the donuts are made out of paper, they look so real.  Have the kids cut up a dozen or half-dozen and paste them into the donut box.  Donuts anyone?

Kids can cut and paste a birthday cake for a friend, family member or a cuddly bear.  First, cut out the number of candles for the cake and the correct birthday number topper.  Second, cut out the cake and paste the candles and birthday number on the cake.  Now hold up the cake and sing the “happy birthday” song.

cut and paste ice cream cones
cut and paste birthday cake

These donuts look so yummy that the kids will think they’re real! Kids cut out six donuts and paste them into the donut box. Which donuts will they choose?

cut and paste donuts

Kids will feel like little chefs with these fun cut and paste worksheets and will learn more about good food choices for everyday meals.

Cut and Paste Numbers Worksheets for Preschoolers

Cut and Paste Numbers Worksheets

Kids can learn numbers and number sequences with the Cut and Paste Numbers worksheets activities.  Fun character shaped numbers holding up counting fingers to help kids learn their numbers.  Each numbered card has the number, the number word and a fun number character.  Kids paste the numbered characters in sequence in the numbered boxes from 0 to 10.  This number activity can also be used as a game by mixing up the cut-out numbered pictures and have the children place them in sequential order on a table.  Challenge the kids to write out the numbers on a plain paper without looking at the cards.  Test the kids to see if they know how many fingers each number is.

cut and paste numbers worksheet characters

Fun cut and paste number worksheets activities helps kids develop their fine motor skills with scissors.

Preschool Cut and Paste Chicken Activities

Kids can practice their fine motor and counting skills with these fun Preschool Cut and Paste Chicken Activities. Kids start out with a page of chicken coops on one page and a bunch of chickens on the next page. First step is to cut out all the chickens. Second step is to paste the correct number of chickens in each chicken coop for the number it shows.

Preschool Cut and Paste Chicken Activities.

Kids paste five chickens, then 4 chickens, then 3 chickens,then 2 chickens, then one chicken. Will they know how many chickens to paste with the number 0?

Cut and Paste Chick Worksheet

There’s also a Chick Cut and Paste activity with the same theme as well as a Rooster Cut and Paste activity. Don’t forget to remind the kids that rooster’s like to sit on the fence, although there’s only so much room. Kids can paste some on the ground.

Cut and Paste Rooster Coop Activity

Mix it up a bit to challenge the kids. Have them cut out all the chickens, Chicks and Roosters and place the correct number of them into the coop. For example, there could be two chickens with two roosters and one chick for box 1.

Preschool cut and paste chicken activities are fun to do and help kids practice their number counting and number recognition.