One Hole Punch: A Visual Motor Printable Activity Pages

Does your child have trouble coloring within the line? Maybe catching a ball isn’t easy? Handwriting is messy and all over the place? Or they complain of how hard it is to copy from the board? The One Hole Punch Activity Pages can help with that.

Eye-hand coordination, visual attention, hand strength, and tracking come together in a fun printable. Kids can’t get enough of punching holes in paper (or playing with the “confetti” afterward).

 Ages: 5 and up

7 pages in both color and black and white.

Grab this activity if you want your child to build…

• Hand strength: thicker paper and squeezing the punch work on hand strength. This comes in handy with using utensils and writing for extended periods of time.
• Visual attention, tracking, and discrimination: The activity asks to punch out only the symbol shown and requires tracking from left to right (how we read)
• Working at midline/bilateral coordination skills: This builds body awareness and helps develop using the two hands together in a coordinated manner
• Eye hand coordination: is knowing where the symbol is that they want to punch out and bringing the hand and tool to that spot

This is a digital download that can be printed and used as many times as needed. This activity will help your child develop eye tracking, eye teaming, left to right awareness, hand strength, eye-hand coordination, and builds bilateral coordination skills.

Materials needed:

• A one-hole punch. The Bostitch Reduced Effort One hole punch is the best. Sometimes kids have to use their bodies to stabilize the tool. That’s okay for little kids but older kids should be able to use one hand to control the tool.
• Cardstock (thicker paper is easier to hold though slightly harder to punch- it offers enough resistance)

Wondering if your child might have teaming, tracking or focus issues? The best person to help you know is a developmental Optometrist. You can find one that looks at vision learning in addition to acuity at www.covd.org.