Our topic this month is Transport & we have cut out pictures of buses, boats, cars, trucks, trains, etc & let the children paint them or colour them or do sticking on them. Is this still allowed as I've heard we are not supposed to do this anymore? I look after 2-3 year olds.

I've not heard anything along those lines. In our setting we often pre cut shapes for the children to decorate. We encourage the older/more able children to cut them out themselves and give the younger ones the option to try with our support. We do a daily cutting before snack time each day to help children with these skills but personally I feel it is fine to cut them objects yourself for craft activities as the children are still provided with plenty of opportunities to develop their hand eye coordination and fine motor skills through painting, sticking, colouring the cut outs so I still feel they gain a lot from it!

Thanks Have been speaking to our early years advisor today & she said the same thing so all is good