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Fridge Door Pom Pom Drop

Develop fine motor skills in babies, toddlers, and preschoolers with the Fridge Door Pom Pom Drop activity. This play idea is quick and easy to set up. In fact, you probably already have everything you need at home. Take 5 minutes to create this fun play idea for your kids.

Develop fine motor skills in babies, toddlers, and preschoolers with the Fridge Door Pom Pom Drop Activity. This play idea is quick and easy to set up.

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Benefits of Fine Motor Play

Fine motor skills describe anything that requires the use of the fingers thumbs and hands. Zipping up jackets, tying shoelaces and feeding themselves are examples of tasks that require children to have fine motor skills.

Fine motor skills go far beyond just being able to hold a pencil and write. If you want your child to become independent, then you need to encourage them to strengthen their fingers.

Related: The Importance of Fine Motor Skills Development – Penfield Building Blocks

There are so many different activities you can do with your kids to promote fine motor skills. My most popular activities are the Paper Plate Color Match Activity and the Toilet Roll Letter Match Activity.

Both activities are easy to make with items you already have at home, and only require 5-10 minutes to make.

If you want more ways to develop fine motor skills, then be sure to check out The Ultimate List of Fine Motor Activities for Kids.

Materials Needed

1. Toilet Rolls or Cardboard Craft Tubes
2. Painters Tape
3. Pom Poms
4. A plastic tub for catching the pom poms

I’m very glad that I had a bag of pom poms that varied in size. I found that the 1 inch ones were too big, and didn’t fall through the tube as easily as the smaller ones did.

If you don’t already have pom poms at home and you do need to go and buy some, I recommend getting a bag of multi-sized pom poms.


How to set up a Fridge Door Pom Pom Drop

Setting up this pom pom drop activity is so easy. All you need to do is:

1. Attach the cardboard tubes to the fridge door using painters tape.

You can change the angle of each tube and how many you stick to the fridge.

If you have a smaller container then you can angle each tube a bit to make sure that each pom-pom (mostly) lands inside the container.

2. Place a plastic tub filled with pom poms below the cardboard tubes.

This will catch all of the pom poms once they’ve been dropped.

This activity was very easy to set up. It took only 5 minutes, which would have been two if my little ones hadn’t tried to “help”.

When my son was finished dropping the pom poms down the tubes he had fun pulling the tubes off. However, I discovered that when that happened, all I need to do was change the arrangement of the tubes.

By creating a new pattern with the tubes he became interested in dropping the pom-poms again.

Resparking my son’s interest in the activity wasn’t what I had intended to do. I just wanted to put the tubes back on the fridge because my baby girl was still having fun playing. However, I was very pleased that it turned out that way for me.

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Develop fine motor skills in babies, toddlers, and preschoolers with the Fridge Door Pom Pom Drop Activity. This play idea is quick and easy to set up.