6+ Fall Cutting Activities for Kids with Autism

These Fall cutting activities for kids with autism are perfect for your home program or classroom activities. Learning to cut, requires strong fine motor skills. The activities listed below, will also help your child build their hand strength and fine motor skills. I have listed to tools you need, and perfect activities, for building your child’s cutting skills (scissor skills development) below.

Fall cutting activities for kids with autism

Fall themed cutting skills tray

Such a fun and easy way to build cutting skills, incorporating the textures and colors of Fall.

Acorn cutting, tearing and painting

This fun activity combines cutting and tearing, making it a fabulous activity for building hand strength and fine motor skills.

Free printable natural Fall leaf collages

I love this activity which can include going on a nature walk, collecting leaves with your child and using them to cut up and make collages!

Scissor cutting turkey template

Of all of the Fall cutting activities, this one is perfect for Thanksgiving!

Leaf cutting tray

Such a fun and simple cutting activity that you can set up anywhere!

Simple DIY cutting station

This simple DIY cutting station is one of my favourite Fall cutting activities. It makes it so easy to build cutting, fine motor and hand strength skills with your little one!

Fall Cutting Skills Worksheets

Autism Activities Workbooks Bundle – this bundle of printable autism workbooks is the perfect tool to help you teach cutting skills to children with autism.
Fine Motor Activities Bundle – I created this bundle of printable fine motor activities to help you build cutting skills (and many other additional fine motor skills) with autistic individuals.
Fall Autism Activities Bundle – this bundle is filled with printable Fall themed activities you can download, print and start using right away.
Cutting Activities for Preschoolers

Helpful Tools for these Fall Cutting Activities for Kids with Autism

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These are the tools I use to build fine motor skills, hand strength and cutting skills in my autism classrooms and the home programs I run for autistic learners.

Scissors for Kids

Plastic Safety Scissors – you may want to start with the safest, plastic scissors.
Fiskars Animal Scissors – child safety scissors that are suitable for children who are both right and left handed.
Maped Kidicut Children’s Safety Scissors – these are really cute, easy-to-use safety scissors for kids.
Soft Rubber Handled Children’s Scissors – these scissors are adorable and easy for children to grip and use.
Loop Scissors for Kids – these scissors are probably one of the safest on this list and have handles that can be squeezed together easily to help individuals with motor difficulty.

Sensory Dough

Sensory Dough – this is the best sensory dough! The colors and textures of this sensory dough are so motivational and fun.

Occupational Therapy Hand Strengthening Tools

Stress Ball – this kit includes 3 balls with 2 levels of resistance (soft, medium and hard).
Hand Exerciser / Resistance Band – these little hand exerciser are a fabulous tool to use to build hand strength, increase fine motor skills and help alleviate stress in children with autism.
Stress Ball Stuffed Animal – these adorable stress ball stuffed animals are a fun tool that build hand strength as well.

More activities that build fine motor skills

Autism Workbooks – a collection of 5 autism workbooks that build fine motor skills, communication skills, sensory play skills, life skills and increase positive behaviors.
Montessori Trays – a selection of Montessori trays to build new skills with your autistic learners.
Simple Fine Motor Activity – create this simple activity that builds fine motor skills easily and quickly using cotton balls and clothespins.
Origami for Kids with Special Needs – use these fun and easy origami activities to build fine motor skills with your little learners.

More Autism Learning Resources

Autism Activities Workbook Bundle – build communication skills, fine motor skills, sensory play skills and daily living skills, while helping your child or students to successfully manage any difficult behaviors, with these fun, educational, printable activities.
Fall Autism Activities Bundle – a collection of Fall themed printable autism activities to help you build communication skills, fine motor skills, sensory play skills and daily living skills, while helping your child or students to successfully manage any difficult behaviors.
The Successful Interaction with a Child with Autism Course – learn to better understand your autistic child or students with this complete course. (Find all autism courses for teachers here.)
Sensory Communication Workbook – Build communication skills with simple sensory activities.
How to Make a Communication Binder Guide & Workbook – Learn how to create a Communication Binder for your child or student with autism using real photos. Follow my expert guide to learn how to use it to increase communication skills.
Zoo Animals Play Dough Mats Bundle – use these printable play dough mat to work on the names of the animals, build language skills, and increase fine motor strength and precision in a fun, sensory way!