Ten thousand balls fill a toddler's bedroom for Calen Chan
The surprise came after a parkour makeover of the room, and two days later a bedtime short showed what the balls did to lights-out.
Calen ChanStory of Why this story? The video is running at 134,802 views a day, 10 times its usual pace (13,206).
I SURPRISED MY TODDLER WITH 10,000 BALLS
Calen Chan, a three-time US parkour national champion, has spent his channel's recent weeks turning his toddler son into a co-star. His newest long video takes the idea about as far as a bedroom allows: "I SURPRISED MY TODDLER WITH 10,000 BALLS."
The chapters lay out the plan. First comes the hunt for ten thousand ball pit balls, then a parkour makeover of the boy's bedroom, then the filling, the surprise itself, a round of ball challenges and, at the end, the baby of the family climbing in too. In the description, Chan says one of the best parts of being a dad is getting to live out his own childhood dreams through his kids.
The video had a quiet first day, about 11,000 views, then picked up nearly 135,000 in its second. The comments are mostly about the toddler: timestamps of him sprinting across the room and sliding down, a small "I catch you" that several viewers repeat, and longtime viewers saying they have watched since the channel's first million subscribers.
The balls have stayed. On Sunday a short followed, its description admitting that bedtime has been a challenge ever since they arrived. The same day, a September short of the boy's first rainstorm passed a million views. According to its description, the dry last couple of years meant he had never played in puddles before.
It has been a busy stretch. A long-jump short from earlier in the week is past five million views, and the channel added about 110,000 subscribers in seven days.
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What viewers say
Best father son duo ever!
@Em1k-yytdSee it on YouTube“I catch you” was so cute
@AthenaVenizeSee it on YouTubeThe I TUFF SHIRT IS ADORABLE 😂
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- Channel
- Calen Chan
- Subscribers
- 1,880,000 ▲ 110,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 142,197,395
- Channel views, pace per day
- 31,757,894 (on a normal day: 18,051,730)
- Video published
- October 2, 2026
- Video views so far
- 147,842 (2 days online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 134,802 (on a normal day: 13,206)
The numbers
The ball pit video started slowly, then its second day ran about ten times faster than its usual pace.
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A famous parkour-style chase across a construction site, with free runner Sébastien Foucan, opens which James Bond film?
Casino Royale (2006), Daniel Craig's first Bond film, opens its action with Bond chasing Foucan's bomb-maker through a construction site in Madagascar.
