Paper Punch Design
What to do:
At about 5 years of age, children have the muscular strength to use a hole
punch with one or both hands. They are often fascinated with the design created
by taking something away from paper, rather than adding something to paper.
- Give them paper and a paper punch to make fun designs.
- Younger children will enjoy just punching holes out of scrap paper while older children may be more interested in a design or pattern.
- With experience, children can experiment with making designs, outlines, or pictures of punched holes and pasting their work onto another piece of paper of contrasting color. For example, a design could be punched out of white paper and glued to red paper for a Valentine’s Day card, punched out of orange and glued to black for Halloween, and so forth.
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School-age (6+ years),
Creativity,
Small Motor Skills,
Art,
Eye-Hand Coordination and Small Motor,
Outdoor Play
