all of the kids in my world KNOW that they are NEVER to touch the rotory cutter!!!
they can draw their lines with pencil and use scissors; or they can ask me to cut for them...they can never use the cutter themselves!
they learned this lesson very early...when my youngest granddaughter was 4 she came to the sewing school to work on a quilt for her daddy being deployed; while there one of the class instructors had a big accident with the cutter...cut her finger to the bone...it was tramatic enough that the girls do not even ask if they can try using it. (and the oldest is 15 now) she is even still happy with my cutting anything they want cut with the cutter. rule is no one under 18 allowed to touch the rotory cutters. pain takes all the joy out of an activity. i have never had to hide my cutters, i keep them put away, not laying around any more than a butcher knife would be left laying around. WE ALWAYS PRACTICE SAFETY FIRST!