Pom Pom Drop Activity for Toddlers + Benefits for All Ages

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A simple, oh-so-simple drop toddler activity using pom poms (or cotton balls) and paper towel tubes and a little bit of tape has so many yummy benefits.

A pom pom drop activity 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 with many bonus benefits!

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

I taped a few paper towel tubes and toilet paper tubes to the wall using painter’s tape. Wrapping paper tubes would work too. And I’ve even used cereal boxes rolled into a tube for something like this as well.

Then, I handed the kids a bowl of pom poms. And they inherently know what to do, or are curious enough to see what happens.

That’s all.

Told you it was a simple pom pom drop activity.

We like simple!

Simple pom pom drop activity has a lot of benefits for the youngest toddlers to older kids.

Pom Pom Drop Play Time!

This pom pom 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!

What are pom pom drop activity benefits?

At its most basic level, a pom pom drop activity benefits fine motor coordination, hand-eye coordination. Inserting the pom pom into the cardboard tube.

Going a little beyond that, this activity sparks curiosity. What happens if I put it here? Where does it go?

For younger toddlers, pom pom drop activity benefits their object permanence development. The pom pom is still there when it goes through the tube, even though they cannot see it.

You can also get your older kids involved in setting this one up. It’s a great STEAM 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!

So many benefits of a simple pom pom drop! Don’t skip over the easy activities!