Easy Pom Pom Crafts Ideas You can Try with Your Kids

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Pom pom crafts and activities ideas

If you are looking for EASY pom pom crafts ideas and activities for toddlers and preschoolers, we are sharing over 12 easy pom pom crafts for you to create with your kids, as well as fun easy pom pom activities for toddlers. 

And pom poms are such a common supply you can get easily from craft or stationery store, Walmart, or Amazon alike, hence this can easily serve as your go-to option to entertain bored kids at home.

Now, before you rush to order that piles of fluffy pom poms, pay attention to this first….

 

Are pom poms choking hazards?

Pom poms are choking hazards.

So, be sure your toddler and preschoolers are ready to use pom poms (or other small items) and won’t put them in their mouth. 

It is also important to always supervise your toddlers while they are using pom poms to ensure they do not choke on them. 

 

What can I make with pom poms?

There are so many things you can do with pom poms with toddlers and preschoolers. There are easy pom pom crafts ideas, decorations, and activities that you can do together. 

You can do simple crafts by glueing pom poms together to make some animal shape or something else.

Or you can also arrange and stick pom poms on some sort of base (paper, craft stick, etc).

For toddler, simple color sorting using pom poms can be a blast! Or try pom pom drop, pour and tranfer, and so on. It’s limitless!

 

How do you make pom poms stick together?

If you are creating easy pom pom crafts for toddlers you know that sometimes it is difficult to get them to stick together. 

Normal white glue (school glue, paper glue) does not work with pom pom crafts. 

The best glue to use for your pom pom crafts is hot glue or fabric glue. Of course, hot glue is not very safe to use with preschoolers and toddlers. So we recommend fabric glue as the best choice when crafting with younger kids. 

Fabric glue will allow pom poms to stick together as well as other surfaces such as styrofoam, paper, cardboard, fabric, etc.  

Ok now ONTO THE CRAFT & ACTIVITIES…

13 Easy Pom Pom Crafts Ideas for Toddlers and Preschoolers 

 

1. Pom Pom Garland

Cut a long piece of yarn and lay flat on the table. Now start gluing pom poms to the piece of yarn and make a beautiful garland to hang for your next holiday, birthday, or just for fun!

 

2. Pom Pom  Ice Cream Cones

Choose bright colorful pom poms and place in a real waffle cone. Or draw on a piece of paper and glue the pom poms there for the perfect ice cream craft treat.

 

3. Pom Pom Pumpkin

Simple as it sounds. Take an orange pom pom or paint one orange and take a brown pipe cleaner and trim down for the stem and glue on top!

You can make as many as you want and have a mini pumpkin patch!

Stacey has a FREE template for your pumpkin patch to print here. She’s using goggly eyes and brown felt as the stem instead. It’s up to your creativity!

4. Pom Pom Chick

Take a piece of white printer paper and glue two yellow pom poms on the paper. Glue the top one just slightly to the right.

Now take an orange marker and draw the beak and the legs.

Such a cute way to make a 3D chick!

 

5. Pom Pom Fridge Magnets

Such a quick and fun project, but since hot glue is needed you will have to be sure to assist with this one!

Hot glue tiny pieces of magnet to a colorful pom pom. Once completed now your kids can have fun making their own designs on the fridge using the magnetic pom poms!

 

6. Pom Pom Caterpillars

Grab a clothespin and glue whatever color pattern of pom poms you wish on the top of the clothespin. Glue on some googly eyes and now you have some really cute caterpillars! 

Or, you can also arrange and glue some pom poms on a leaf shaped construction paper. Tara has a template for your leaf here.

7. Flower Pom Pom

Creating pom pom flowers is a lot of fun. You will only need some blank papers, pom poms in different colors, and some craft glue.

To begin, you will want to roughly plan (or draw circles with pencil) where you’re gonna make the different flowers. 

Dab some craft glue on the center of the circle, and stick 1-3 pom poms. Grab different colored pom poms and glue them around the center of the flower.

You can use green or brown pom poms to make the stems like this, or you can just draw the stems with markers. Easy peasy!

 

8. Love Bugs

Take colorful pom poms and glue googly eyes on them and now you have one eyed love bugs.

Add pipe cleaners for antennas if you want to add to their cuteness. 

Sara has a simple tutorial on how to make your own adorable pom poms love bugs here!

 

9. Cardboard Snowman

Using an empty toilet paper tube, paint it white and then with a washable marker draw the snowman a face and his buttons.

Add two pom poms at the top on the sides for ear muffs and connect them using a pipe cleaner on the top for an adorable cardboard snowman.

 

10. Pom Pom Heart Card

One sweet yet unique way to say “I love you” is with a Pom Pom heart card.

Grab a cardstock paper to use as a card (or you can use a blank card). Draw a big heart at the centre of a page.

Have your child get some pink/red and white pom poms and glue them inside the heart.

Write an “I” at the top of the heart and a “U” at the bottom!

The perfect card to give to the grandparents!

 

11. Pom Pom Wreath

You can do this on a piece of paper (use a cardstock paper or so) or on a styrofoam wreath base.

Start gluing colorful pom poms to fill up your styrofoam circle or to fill in your pre-made circle on your paper.

Once they have dried you can hang your new masterpiece. Kids love seeing their crafts displayed!

 

12. Pom Pom Painted Pineapple

Here’s you’re gonna use the pom pom for a paint dipping brush.

You can find a template of pineapple image from internet, or you can just cut out a free form pineapple (just an oval shape) on white paper.

For the crown, you can draw your own or ask your child to draw using his/her palm as guidance. Draw and cut from a green/brown paper.

Pinch one pom pom with a clothespin, dip into yellow paint.

Then dot the yellow paint all over the white template. There you have your pineapple!

 

13. Pom Pom Raincloud 

This is the perfect craft to hang in your child’s room by a window.

Start by cutting out a big cloud out of white construction paper. Then tape strings to the back of the cloud making them all different lengths.

Once done, you can glue pom poms that are all different colors on each of the strings. Now you have a cute and colorful pom pom rain cloud craft!

Your child will love seeing it hung in their room!

 

Pom Pom Activities for Toddlers  and Preschoolers 

When it comes to pom pom activities for younger kids, there are a few supplies I like to have on hand. With these basic supplies, you can create so many different activities for kids using pom poms. 

On Hand Supplies for Pom Pom Activities Ideas

• Pom Poms in all different sizes and colors
• Tongs
• Clothes pins
• Bucket/containers in different sizes

 

Pom Pom Activities for Toddlers

Pom Pom Sorting Buckets

Pom pom sorting buckets are great activities for toddlers. Your toddler can pick up a pom pom ball with clothespins and then drop it in the coordinating bucket color.

This activity not only helps with color recognition but also with fine motor skills. 

 

Pom Pom Sensory Bin

Grab a big tub, throw in some pom pom balls, some smaller containers, tongs, and clothespins, and let your toddler explore their creativity in a pom pom sensory bin. 

 

Pom Pom Grab and Drop

Grab a wide mouth empty water bottle and set up the perfect grab and drop station.

Make a pile of pom pom balls, grab the tongs, and have your toddler use the tongs to move the pom poms into the wide mouth water bottle. 

 

Pom Pom Activities for Preschoolers   

Pom Pom Sorting

If you are looking for pom pom activities for preschoolers, you will want to include pom pom sorting.

Your preschooler can continue to work on color recognition with this activity, as well as other various skills.

Have you preschooler pick up one pom pom at a time with a clothes pin and then have them put them in the coordinating color pile.

To take this activity one step further, once the pom poms are sorted by color have them sort them by size. 

Or, do it differently by introducing simple counting activity using pom poms.

 

Pom Pom Patterns

Pom Pom Patterns help your child learn to recognize patterns. Have your preschooler create ABAB patterns, ABC patterns, AABC patterns, and more.

The tongs are great to use as a helping with fine motor skills to pick up the pom poms.

Pom Pom Wall Drop

Building a simple pom pom drop just takes a few empty paper towel and toilet paper tubes, some tapes, and lots of pom poms.

To create this pom pom wall drop, tape the tubes to a piece of cardboard or a wall. Then place the tubes at various angles and tape in place.

Place a container or plastic bowl at the bottom of a tube or two, and allow it to catch the pom poms at the bottom.

Now start dropping those pom poms in the top of the tubes and see if they can get the pom pom to fall into the container waiting at the end!

You will see that this is a great activity to use for pom poms and will keep your preschooler busy and entertained!

 

Other Toddler and Preschooler Activities Ideas

Need more ideas? Check these out:

Easy Toddler Activities at Home

Easy activities ideas using common household items

Easy low prep activities for Preschoolers at home

 

There you have it!

Easy ideas for pom pom crafts ideas and activities for toddlers and preschoolers to do at home! 

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