An absolute teacher must have is an automatic 3 hole puncher. Yes, automatic! As in, it punches the holes for you! You don’t have to push down! 🙂 🙂 Literally just hold the papers in it and it punches 3 holes in them. It can do up to 20 pages at a time so I can do huge stacks of papers really quickly without tiring out my hand or worrying about hurting the hole punch.
I cannot believe I went years without knowing this existed when I discovered it a few years ago. I am constantly needing to 3 hole punch papers for binders so it’s super convenient. Especially at the beginning of the year, this saves me so much time. I’m providing links directly to it so you can find the exact one that I have quickly – they’re technically affiliate links which means I earn commission on sales made through the link – but that doesn’t affect my recommendation… I love this awesome teacher tool!
I actually loved this automatic 3 hole punch so much that I bought a 2nd one so I could have one in 2 different places. 🙂 It is amazing how a simple invention you didn’t even know you needed can make constantly handling and organizing lots of papers so much easier.
Having an automatic 3 hole puncher is also great for things like making student books!
You can 3 hole punch their papers for the book project SO quickly. Quickly punch a stack of the papers for the books for each student. Then, have them work on the pages individually. When they’re all done, they put the pages in order to make their book. Then, have them take a little string of colorful yarn to make little ties in each of the 3 holes. This creates such cute books!
Anyway, I love my automatic 3 hole punch and wanted to tell you about it! I used to fight with my manual one all the time. I eventually got a nicer one that could handle more pages but it still got tiring to clamp it down all the time and I just always felt like I wasn’t aligning the 3 holes exactly or they’d rip when I pulled it out… it was a random source of frustration I didn’t realize there was a solution for, so maybe it can be one for you too! 🙂
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