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The sensation of pain is the most complex yet elusive of all the stimuli to which human beings are sensitive. Pain is subjective experience and for children, it's possibly the most be wildering and frightening occurrence of their young lives. It is impossible for them to understand why pain occurs or that relief is just around the corner. They know only that something hurts right now. Children respond to pain with behavioural relations that depend upon their age cognitive process."Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself. The aim of the study was to assess the effectiveness of virtual presentation on venepuncture upon the coping level of pain among children of 6-12 years of age undergoing venepuncture in selected hospitals. Methods: The conceptual framework for the study was developed on the basis of Roys adaptation model, which was modified for the present study. A Post-test only design was used in this study. The present study was conducted in municipal corporation hospital. A sample size of 70 children who met the inclusion criteria were chosen for this study of which 35 were taken for the control group and 35 for the experimental group through purposive sampling technique. The study variables were the coping level of pain among children under going venepuncture and virtual presentation of venepuncture. The data collection tools were validated and the reliability was established. After the pilot study, the data for the main study was collected using interview method. The children in the control group were assessed for coping level of pain using FLACC pain Rating Scale without any intervention. In experimental group, virtual presentation of venepuncture, it includes procedure room set up as well as the health personnel and each steps of venepuncture that a child should undergo was shown to each child for a period of 5 minutes during the procedure. Adequate explanations were provided and doubts of children and their parents were clarified. While watching the video, venepuncture was performed and assessment of coping level of pain was done during immediately for 1 minute by using FLACC Pain Rating Scale. The data collection was carried out in three phases and the data was analyzed by using the descriptive and inferential statistics. Result: The study result depicted that In control group majority 68.57% of samples had severe level of pain and 31.43% moderate level of pain. Mean score was 7.74 along with 1.75 SD. In Experimental group majority 80% of samples had moderate level of pain and 20% of samples had severe level of pain. Mean score was 2.26 along with1.46 SD. In control group mean score was 7.74 along with1.75 SD therefore in experimental group mean score is 2.26 and 1.46 SD. DF is 34, t value is 13.42 and p value is 0.00001 which shows virtual presentation on venepuncture is significantly effective Conclusion: The present study concluded that. Pain is an unpleasant experience and the fifth vital sign which need to be assessed and managed appropriately. The perception of pain depends on anatomic, physiologic and cognitive behavioral factors. Most of the children express their pain by means of cry, restless, kicking or legs drawn up, rigid or jerking. So treating the pain is essential with the help of non- pharmacological technique such as distraction which is has the property of analgesic effect for the toddlers who are receiving immunization injection or other invasive procedure. Number of studies proved that distraction is effective in pain reduction among young children. So as nurse's we have to reduce the pain by using different distraction techniques during painful procedure for children as a pre procedural interventions