Originally Posted by
francie yuhas
I have the smaller kids use my small iron (the one I take to classes) as it fits their hands better.
Good thought ... plus some of the irons are so heavy it would be harder for the children to work with.
I can understand hesitations towards the children using the rotary cutters. It's important for them to learn how to use scissors and this would be a good place to start. As they progress and you see how well they are cutting, and how safe they are around scissors, then you would know when the right time would be to introduce them to a rotary cutter.
An important safety factor for both ironing and scissor or rotary cutting, would be to have them working at an appropriate height. The shorter the child, the more important to adjust to their height ... just as each of us have discovered our tables are too high/low depending on our own height.