On the Matter of Use of Scissors and its Guidance in Infant Age

Abstract

We dealt with use of sewing scissors in homemaking education in elementary schools. Skills in using sewing scissors were based on skills of using working scissors. Therefore, we investigated how parents and kindergarten teachers educated kindergarten children in using working scissors in their homes. The results were as follows : 1. Parents positively made their children use working scissors in their homes. But, not understanding the teaching points, they could not educate the use of working scissors in the proper way. 2. Kindergarten teachers educated with stress on safety. 3. It was necessary for kindergarten teachers to show parents the purposes for education of skills of working scissors, teaching proper techniques, and to urge them to practice.