Hairstyles Cutting Practice Pages for Preschool * Moms and Crafters

I’m always looking for new and creative cutting practice pages for preschool – so why not make some fun hairstyles ones? When you’re done, try these alphabet do a dot printables too. This post contains affiliate links.

A is actually obsessed with cutting – any time I give her a coloring craft, she runs for the scissors! And since she loves everything dress-up and beauty, I decided to design the perfect craft for her: a hairstyle focused one!

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To build scissors skills, you’ll usually use pages with all sorts of shapes to go around. These are surprisingly challenging for preschoolers because of the constant direction changes.

That makes hair textures the perfect scissors practice challenge for them! And yes – it can be hard!

How to approach learning scissors skills with hairstyles cutting practice pages for preschool

Skill-levels

I wanted these cutting practice pages to also double as a bit of a self-portrait project, however, I realized after A tried it that it was the wrong approach. (This is why you always want crafts that are really tested properly!)

Due to the various challenge levels, it’s best crafted in sequence, with the straight hair being “level 1” and the others progressing as follows:

Waves
Zig Zags
Curls

Crafting the rest of it

The girl’s body and head are also great cutting practice for preschoolers, and overall, you can really take this ten steps further. A pulled out the crayons to make a simple face (AFTER she was done cutting, of course) and she was able to assemble the character on her own.

You can take also do the following:

Print the hair on regular paper and have kids color it.
Add buttons, etc to the body
Make little paper hair bows to glue on
Or, glue on any craft supplies – buttons, pom poms, small satin bows – to the hair as accessories
Bring out the googly eyes, pipe cleaner mouth, pom pom nose, etc.
Add some glitter glue bling: earring, necklace, headband…

Printing the template – can you print on construction paper?

The coolest part of this template: you can print it right onto the construction paper that you’re using!

Yes, you can use an ink jet printer on construction paper. I don’t think a laser jet would work.

You may need to trim the paper down to fit the printer (most construction paper is 9×12 inches, a bit larger than the 8.5×11 that a standard cheap printer will handle).

You’ll also need to print one page at a time or get the order correct on the first try (ha! I didn’t.) You’ll want the hair and faces on the right color paper.

I used a skin tone pack of paper from Pacon for the faces and brown hair, and one of Crayola’s standard colors for the blonde and redhead. I used regular colored copy paper for the body.