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    Home » Fine motor skills activities

    Published: Feb 1, 2019 · Modified: Sep 12, 2023 by Fynn · All activities should be supervised by an adult. This post may contain affiliate links.

    Snowman Pompom Drop

    Inside: A fun Snowman Pompom colour matching and fine motor activity for your toddler this Christmas!

    Snowman pom pom drop DIY learning toy for children
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    • A DIY Fun Learning Toy for Toddlers
    • What you need for the Snowman Pom Pom DIY
    • Let’s make the Snowman Pom Pom toy! 
    • Fine Motor and Color Matching
    • More Activities with Pompoms

    A DIY Fun Learning Toy for Toddlers

    Our newest DIY toy, a cute snowman pompom drop activity, made with a tissue box! We love converting trash to fun learning toys at our place. This will be perfect for winter or Christmas theme learning for young toddlers who love pushing stuffs into holes and are learning about colors.

    Push colourful pompoms into this cute DIY snowman

    To get the pompoms out, simply turn over the tissue box and dig out the pompoms through the opening. The little ones will love digging out those pompoms themselves too! I have been making these pompom drop boxes for my daughter since she’s 1.5 years old (adult supervision is required since pompoms are used here) and now at 3.5yo, she is still loving them.

    Here’s another The Very Hungry Caterpillar pompom drop box that I made. This is so easy to make and will keep your little ones busy for a long time! 

    Practice fine motor skills as your child pushes pompoms into this DIY snowman toy

    What you need for the Snowman Pom Pom DIY

    • A tissue box
    • Pompoms in primary colors (red, yellow, blue) and secondary colors (orange, green and purple)
    • White, black and blue (optional) construction paper
    • A container as the stencil for drawing circles (4” diameter)
    • A sharp penknife
    • Basic stationery like markers (same colors as the pompoms), scissors, glue

    Let’s make the Snowman Pom Pom toy! 

    Cut out circles to make a snowman.
    1. Using the container as the stencil, draw 3 circles on the white construction paper. Cut out the 3 circles.
    2. Cut out a small black hat for the snowman. Glue the hat to the top of one of the circles. Draw a snowman face on this circle.
    3. With the tissue box opening facing down, cover the tissue box with the blue construction paper (this step is optional).
    4. Now glue the 3 circles on the tissue box, forming a snowman.
    5. Using the markers, draw 6 big dots in the primary and secondary colors (3 different colors on each circle) on the snowman body.
    6. Cut a small hole on each colored dot using the sharp penknife. And the learning toy is ready!

    Fine Motor and Color Matching

    Push pompoms into the button holes

    Set this toy out with some colored pompoms and invite your tot to push the pompoms through the little holes. Invite the older toddlers to match the color of the pompom to the holes and say the name of the colors at the same time.

    Match pompom colours to the colours of the holes in the snowman

    More Activities with Pompoms

    There are so many way to use pompoms in DIY learning activities with kids! Here's how we used pompoms in a DIY counting activity, and in an ice cream sensory bag.

    Share a photo with me if you make this pompom drop toy too!

    Be sure to check out the rest of our DIY learning toys tutorials. We have lots of fun ideas on our Instagram and Pinterest DIY Learning Toys board too! Pin and make this toy later!

    Snowman pompom drop, a color matching and fine motor activity for toddlers

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    Fynn is a Math and Science teacher from Singapore, author of The Happy Learning Book for Siblings and founder of Happy Tot Shelf. She helps parents enjoy home learning with their children through her highly popular kids' activity membership, The Happy Learners' Club. Fynn has been featured in various newspapers, websites and on radio shows as an expert in early childhood learning and creative hands-on learning ideas.

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    1. Betty says

      February 02, 2019 at 12:21 am

      I love this, Fynn! So cute and perfect for my Pom-Pom loving kids. I wonder if your snowman printable (the one from the TP roll activity) might work for this! Thanks again for the great idea!

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