Perfectly Simple Cardboard Tube Activities for the Whole Week

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A week full of fun, memory making moments is only a simple common, household supply away. Grab some cardboard tubes, big and small, and get ready for some perfectly simple paper roll activities.

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Each of these seven activities incorporate cardboard tubes in a variety of different ways.

7 Cardboard Tube Activities for a Week Full of Fun

Cardboard Tube Pom Pom Addition Drop

This simple to prep Visual Addition Pom Pom Drop incorporates pom poms (or cotton balls), cardboard tubes, and painter’s tape for some pom pom learning fun.

Setup your paper rolls like a vertical addition math problem to provide your young learner with a great visual aid to understand the process of addition.

Single digit or double digit numbers can be used, just secure the cardboard tubes to the wall, and let the pom pom addition dropping begin.

Cardboard Tubes and Color Ball Match Activity

A game approach to any activity makes it extra fun! This Color Ball Paper Roll Matching Game has endless possibilities of creative and game-like fun.

All that is needed for this activity is a variety of cardboard tubes, some colored balls (you could make scrunched up colored paper balls if needed), and colored dot stickers or a crayon to draw them.

Match the colors, stack the balls, setup the tubes however your child feels is best and let the creative fun begin.

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Paper Towel Roll Tree Pom Pom Balance Activity

This activity may take a minute or two to setup, but it can be used over and over again for some cardboard tubes fun.

Check out this Pom Pom Balance Paper Towel Roll Tree Activity for a creative approach to practicing fine motor skills.

Take the cardboard tube from an empty paper towel roll and make some slits with a pair of scissors. Slide some colored craft sticks into each slot, and add a bottle cap on the end for a completed paper towel roll tree.

If you don’t have any bottle caps, just use any screw on lids you have as the balancing point.

Cardboard Tube Car Racing Ramp

Any type of race is exciting and this Play Cars Paper Roll Ramp Activity is sure to be a thrill.

Find some toy metal cars, a couple of cardboard tubes (think wrapping paper rolls), a baking tray or two, and an inclined area to slant the tubes.

Setup the race course and the race is ready to start.

Cardboard Tube Pom Pom Tunnel Maze

Work on number recognition with a fun cardboard tube problem solving activity! Shawna, shares her DIY pom pom tunnels maze in her Members Spotlight post!

Not only will playing this game be a fun challenge, but making it as well.

You only need an open box, a few recyclable cardboard tubes, a marker, and some glue for this challenge to begin.

This Paper Towel Roll and Pom Pom Challenge is sure to bring about some giggles and fun, don’t be surprised if you want to try playing it too.

Excellent opportunity to practice the order of numbers counting 1 through 10!

DIY Stacking Toy Activity with Cardboard Tube Rings

Here is another awesome activity using toilet paper rolls for some simple toddler fine motor practice.

Get your kids to help you color each roll a different color and then cut them up into rings.

Grab a paper towel tower or holder and start stacking!

You can sort by color, make a rainbow, or just work on the fine motor skills. Then take them off and do it again.

This activity is fun to make with some scissors, a few cardboard tubes, and some markers.

Fine motor skills are definitely an area of learning that practice makes perfect.

Cardboard Tube Colored Car Drop Activity 

A fun approach to strengthening color recognition and fine motor skills is to try this Paper Roll Colored Car Drop Activity!

This activity is fun to make with some dot stickers, a few cardboard tubes from toilet paper, tape, laundry basket and some toy cars.

Work with your child to talk about colors and sort them into the right paper tubes.

And you can add a cookie sheet into the bottom of the laundry basket for added sound effects!

This fun-filled week of paper roll activities is sure to be a week well spent.

So start collecting as many recyclable cardboard tubes as you can and let the perfectly simple paper roll activities begin!

What are some other paper roll activities that you have tried?

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