Pom Pom Drop Busy Activity for Toddlers

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This is one of my favorite activities I’ve pinned several times. A simple, oh-so-simple drop toddler activity using pom poms (or cotton balls) and paper towel tubes and a little bit of tape. That’s it!

A pom pom drop for toddlers to keep busy with and even preschoolers would love joining in on this!

I recently pinned it again from Teaching Mama’s 20 ways to keep a toddler busy and realized we finally just have to finally do this activity!

Simple is key with toddlers and this pom pom drop activity is perfect to keep them occupied! Set up is quick and tear down is half the fun!

How to Create Your Own Toddler Pom Pom Drop Activity at Home

Do I need to even explain it?

I taped a few paper towel tubes and toilet paper tubes to the wall using painter’s tape.

Then, I handed the kids a bowl of pom poms.

That’s all.

Told you it was a simple pom pom drop activity.

We like simple!

Pom Pom Drop Play Time!

This pompom drop was a definite activity win in our house!

Kept the kids playing and busy for a good amount of time with just a simple fine motor skills activity.

They watched the pom poms fly through the tubes to the bowl or hitting the floor.

A pom pom drop activity for toddler to keep busy with and even preschoolers would love joining in on this!

Sometimes they’d put too many through at one time and they’d get stuck.

And so the kids would have to poke them through.

That always made for some laughing moments.

A simple, oh-so-simple toddler activity using pom poms or cotton balls and paper towel tubes and a little bit of tape.

For my activity, I put some of the paper towel tubes straight up and down for the pom poms to drop straight through.

Others, I put at a diagonal (being careful to think where the pom pom will actually fall out and drop).

I thought the diagonal paper chutes would draw more attention, but alas, I’m proven wrong.

The straight ones were the hit to watch them fall fast!

You can also get your older kids involved in setting this one up. It’s a great stem activity to help develop those thinking skills!

See if your big kids can line up the tubes in a way that a pom pom drops through 3 tubes before hitting the floor!

You can easily turn this into a learning colors activity by drawing a circle of color on each tube so they have to sort the pom poms as they drop them in the chutes!