A studio service
Scissor skills workbooks, built to be cut up.
A scissor skills book is destroyed on purpose. Every page is cut, and the pieces are glued somewhere else. That changes how the book is designed: single-sided pages, lines a small hand can follow, and pieces that fit the spaces made for them. We design cutting and cut-and-paste workbooks for authors, teachers and publishers.
N° 01What goes in the book
Cutting pages in the right order.
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Snip and line pages
Short snips, then straight lines, then curves, waves and zigzags, each with a picture at the end of the line.
02
Shapes and spirals
Cut-out circles, squares and stars, then spirals and simple silhouettes.
03
Cut-and-paste scenes
A background with outlined spaces and a sheet of pieces that fit them: animals onto the farm, fruit into the bowl.
04
Build-a-picture and sequencing
Cut the parts, assemble the robot; cut the strips, put the story in order.
05
Paper-craft pages
Simple fold-and-glue crowns, puppets and chains for older preschoolers.
06
Progress pages
A certificate and a first-cut keepsake page for the parent or teacher.
N° 02The part that goes wrong
A cut page has a back.
01
Double-sided printing
Cutting one page destroys the one behind it. Cutting pages are planned single-sided, with instructions or plain pages on the reverse.
02
Lines too fine
Cutting lines are bold and dotted, with the direction shown, so a child can see where the blade goes.
03
Pieces that do not fit
Every cut-out and its target space are drawn together at the same size, with room for a wobbly cut.
04
Paper weight
Thin paper tears under small scissors. Paper weight is a print choice agreed with your printer before the pages are designed around it.
N° 03How it runs
Plan first, artwork after.
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1. Page plan
We agree the age band, the order of cutting skills, the scenes and the page count, and confirm single-sided printing with your printer.
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2. Sample pages
Two or three finished pages in the agreed look, so you approve the style and the difficulty before the rest is made.
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3. Full interior
Every page produced to the plan, with answers or instructions where the format needs them, then one consolidated round of changes.
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4. Cover and files
Cover design, front matter and print-ready files at your trim size, set to your printer's or platform's template.
N° 04Investment
Three ways to work together.
Single-format
From $1,600
A short cutting-practice book.
- Cover illustration and title design
- Up to 32 single-sided cutting pages
- Guide character
- Print-ready PDF
- 1 round of revisions
Signature
From $3,200
A full scissor skills and cut-and-paste workbook.
- Cover illustration and title design
- Up to 60 single-sided pages
- Cut-and-paste scenes with matching piece sheets
- Certificate and progress pages
- 2 rounds of revisions
- Social marketing pack
Series
From $7,000
A graded range: first snips to paper craft.
- 3+ titles
- Shared characters, palette and cover system
- Difficulty stepped between titles
- Full print files per title
- Series style guide
What every package includes, and what it does not
What you get
- Original artwork made for your book, with full commercial rights
- Editable source files as well as print-ready PDFs
- A written page plan agreed before artwork starts
- Files set to the template of the printer or platform you name
What we don’t do
- Printing, binding and shipping
- ISBNs, publishing account setup or marketing campaigns
- Licensed or trademarked characters
- Educational or developmental claims
- Scissors, glue or product safety testing
Page counts above are caps. A longer book, extra revision rounds or a second language are quoted in writing before we start them.
N° 05Questions
The answers we give most often.
- What age are scissor skills books for?
- Most are made for ages three to six. The order of skills, from snips to shapes to scenes, is the same; the page count and the piece sizes change with the age band you name.
- Why must the pages be single-sided?
- Because cutting a page destroys whatever is printed behind it. We plan every cutting page with a plain or instruction-only reverse, which also helps with glue bleed-through.
- Can it be printed through Amazon KDP?
- Yes. It is a standard paperback, usually at 8.5 x 11 inches. KDP prints both sides of every sheet, so the reverse of each cutting page is designed as a plain or instruction page.
- Can the pieces match a story or character of mine?
- Yes. Send the character or theme and the cut-and-paste scenes are built around it.
- Do I own the pages?
- Yes, with full commercial rights and the editable files.
Start your book
Have a book like this in mind?
Tell us the audience, the page count and where it will be printed. You get a page plan and a fixed quote in writing.