Cutting and sticking
Instead of throwing away all the flyers and brochures that come through the door we put them in a box and almost every other day one or both of the kids ask to do cutting and sticking.
While they are randomly chopping and hacking through pieces of card or magazines I quietly cut various pictures out and stick them in a tuppaware box. We then have a ready supply of little pictures to choose from when we want to make someone a birthday card.
Another tip I was given is to give each young child a roll of masking tape to play with and to practice cutting they can be shown to stick the end of the tape to the table, to wind it out a bit and then cut it with the scissors.
I was also given the tip that if you don’t want the kids to practice hairdressing or chopping up your address book you should stay near them to supervise while they are using scissors!