Bathing your baby can be turned into exciting activity, which will not only bring him joy, but will also be beneficial.
Before turning the bathroom into a “playground”, you should take care of the baby’s safety:
After eating, at least an hour must pass before taking a bath, otherwise the baby may regurgitate the food he has eaten or experience discomfort when bathing. You should not organize pranks during bathing if the child is tired or sleepy.
Bathroom games should be introduced at 7-8 months, when the child.
Children up to one year old are usually bathed in a special plastic bathtub, with an anti-slip mat placed on the bottom.
Freeze cubes of water colored with some natural coloring or syrup. When bathing your baby, put them in the water. The child will definitely reach for the colored pieces of ice and will be surprised by the temperature difference. You can run the cube over your baby’s cheeks or palms. To the great amazement of the baby, after a while the cubes will melt and disappear.
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For older children, you can organize even more exciting games in the water. But so that they don’t get bored, you shouldn’t do them every time you bathe.
Build a toy fleet from pre-made paper boats or use various plastic objects (plastic cups, Kinder surprise containers, etc.) for these purposes. After setting the ships sailing, invite your child to use a cocktail straw to create a real storm. This exercise serves to strengthen and ventilate the lungs.
Children love to draw on objects that are completely unintended for these purposes. Give your child this opportunity when bathing, using special finger paints or water-soluble felt-tip pens. The results of creativity will easily be washed off the walls of the bathtub or tiles. Such entertainment develops fine motor skills, helps in the knowledge of colors.
You can come up with various entertainments with an ordinary bath sponge. Teach your baby to squeeze it alternately with both hands. This exercise will be a fun exercise for your fingers. Or organize a competition by squeezing water from a sponge into plastic cups together with your baby. Invite your child to sponge wash one of their dolls or toys. From multi-colored foam sponges, cut out a variety of funny figures. Swimming and playing with them will become much more interesting.
In the bath it is easy to familiarize your baby with such a property of objects as “buoyancy”. To do this you will need items from various materials(rubber ball, wooden cube, plastic bottle, paper boat). Demonstrate how some objects easily float on the surface of the water, others immediately sink to the bottom, and others gradually become heavier and sink into the water.
Bath - perfect place for fun with soap bubbles. You can prepare the solution yourself from shampoo, liquid soap or bath foam or buy ready-made. Show your child how to blow bubbles from a special tube or your own hands. If you turn on the fan in the room at minimum power, you will get a mesmerizing spectacle.
Lightweight ping pong balls are great fun to play with during bath time. In addition, with their help you can teach your child simple counting. Using a permanent marker, draw one stick on some of them, two on others. Invite your child to sort the balls into two piles depending on the number of sticks drawn, and then count the balls in each pile. The task will become more complicated if you count all the balls, throwing them one by one into the water or putting them in a box.
For fun in the bathroom, you can use ready-made sets of toys made from waterproof materials (rubber, plastic, silicone). These are all kinds of toys with suction cups, aqua puzzles, splashers, waterfalls, etc. The main rule is never leave your baby in the bathroom unattended.
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The bath is a separate play area. You can, of course, throw a ton of toys into the bath with your child, they say, let him swim and have fun. But, firstly, you can’t leave your baby alone in the bathroom - it’s scary. Secondly, he will quickly get tired of flopping around alone in a confined space, it’s just boring. That's why we are adults, to come up with new entertainment for children. We have more experience and ingenuity. And besides, when you play with your son or daughter, you can at least temporarily forget your adult problems and become a child again. I don’t know about you, but I really need this, I would even say it’s necessary!
True, games for children in the bathroom require more imagination (from parents). The banal transfers from one jar to another, which we also practiced when Styopka was very small, are no longer interesting to a grown man. Swimming ducks, fish, boats - and even more so. Our “bathroom” games grew up with our son. So yours too game review I tried to build in ascending order. First, what we played 3 years ago, and at the end - what we play now.
Miracle Yudo fish-whale
This game for children helped our Styopka get rid of his fear of water. It’s not that he was afraid to swim, but he was afraid to put his face in the water. We began to accustom him to this gradually. First they immersed the chin, then the chin again... and the chin again. Things didn't go any further. And then we started playing Miracle Yudo.
When I was taking a bath myself, I called Styopka and showed him that you can exhale into the water and at the same time pronounce different letters.
Here is a big fish swimming. She does this “boooooo,” I said and exhaled into the water.
A small little fish is swimming behind her,” I said in a thin voice. - And she does this “heeeeeeeeeeeeeee.”
Styopka had fun with this game. Then he, having climbed into the bathtub, began to repeat after me.
Then our “fish” began to dive and even fearlessly open its eyes under water. And stories about big fish We told our son about Boo and little Hee for a long time before going to bed. He really liked them.
Water hide and seek
Of course, you can invent different stories with toys that bathe with the child in the bath. But, to be honest, sometimes my head just can’t cook at all and I no longer have the strength to invent anything. And besides, the baby wants movement and fun.
And then one day I came up with a wonderful game. And I did it by accident - I drowned a rubber toy. And then we started doing it regularly. Don't think anything bad! You take a rubber toy and lower it under the water, to the very bottom. The toy seemed to be hiding. Now you release the toy from your hands and it quickly jumps out of the water and even rises a little above the surface in its jump.
We still organize competitions “Whose toy will jump the highest.” So far, no one has managed to outdo the little yellow duck, given for Stepkin’s first birthday. She jumps higher than dolls and even balls - we checked.
Scoop
This game for children grew out of the transfusions I have already mentioned (from one container to another).
Somehow on washing machine Mom left a measuring cup (she uses it to measure washing powder). I rinsed this glass and gave it to Styopka, who was taking a bath at that moment.
Then we began to measure the glass using different containers: small measuring spoons, a child’s scoop. My son was interested.
And recently I brought two plastic cups into the bath. Styopka and I each took one small sponge and started a competition to see who could fill their glass with water the fastest. We squeezed water out of sponges that we kept soaking in water.
One, two, aim
I warn you right away - this is a dangerous game. And not because she poses a danger to life, but because she poses a danger... from her mother. Water somehow gets onto the floor in a strange way, although we try to play very carefully every time. Mom is not very happy about puddles and swears at us. But this is probably the only one by-effect games.
I prepared two sprinklers in advance (I poked holes in the caps of small plastic water bottles with an awl). Then we outlined the target - as a rule, this is the same tile on the wall. It is important that this tile is located above the bathtub (not on the opposite wall), otherwise there will definitely be a universal flood.
We fill the bottle with water and, on command, shoot a stream of water from the bottles at the target. Moreover, if at first the one who simply hit a certain tile won, now we have complicated the task. We draw a target on the tile using mom’s lipstick and aim straight at it.
Shipwreck
Yogurt jars are great! How many times have they helped us out in various fun things. For bath games, jars have been turned into ships. Plastic lids bottles became boats. We play out entire battles!
Little dolls float on the ships, and we put toys from Kinder Surprises into the boats.
We already have a pirate ship on which the Jack Sparrow doll floats. Every time he gets into incredible troubles, but always manages to swim out and save his ship. True, his vessel had to be replaced - in the heat of battle it sprang a leak (after all, the jar was not designed for participation in battles). At Styopka's request, we chose the largest yogurt, and now the jar from under it has become a new ship for Jack.
Foam bacchanalia
Games for children with bubble baths take pride of place. And among them, the game with shaving foam stands out. I don’t hide it, I feel sorry for my foam (it’s still not a cheap thing), but sometimes you can play with it. It turns out very interesting.
So, take shaving foam and add it to food coloring and we get body paint. We started doing real body art. They painted Styopka so much that it was time to show him at the exhibition! We did it very beautifully. This trick won’t work with regular foam; it’s looser.
But bubble bath is wonderful construction material. If you let it into a larger bath, you can build an entire city. And use a cocktail straw to blow out entire grottoes and secret passages.
Or place a plastic bowl on the opposite edge of the bathtub and throw foam balls into it.
You can also make amazing hairstyles out of foam. We erected a whole head on Styopka’s head, sculpted horns and decorated his head with a crown.
In general, as it turned out, there was a lot of entertainment. So it can be very difficult to catch our little fish - Styopka always crawls out of the bathroom in tears. And before, by the way, I didn’t really like swimming.
Bathroom games for children are not just fun. They also introduce the child to amazing properties objects, the laws of physics, calm nervous system, relax and at the same time lift your spirits.
But don't limit yourself to rubber duckies and boats. There are tons of fun and educational bathroom games. Your baby will play some games as soon as he learns to sit, while others will become available to him at 2, 3, 4 years old.
In the article I will also talk about interesting toys for swimming.
Here everything is limited only by your imagination and the interests of the child.
These, of course, are not all the story-based games we play.
Just start, and then your child will come up with fantastic stories for games, and you will only be amazed at his ingenuity.
When playing with foam, it is important that it be hypoallergenic, ideally not sting your eyes. And the shower needs to be set up in such a way that the jets do not get into the baby’s face, at least while he is just learning to interact with it.
Is there a child who will remain indifferent to drawing in the bathroom? Antoshka doesn’t want to get out when we’re drawing.
Attention! You shouldn't do this on acrylic bath. And on cast iron, first try small area, can you wash it?
After such games, I wash the bathtub and tiles with bath cleaner, and the seams between the tiles - citric acid. Everything takes no more than 10 minutes.
The most common - rubber toys, boats, boats, water mill. You definitely won't go wrong buying them. Any child will play with them for many years to come.
For example, boats:
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The company "Polesie" has sets " water world“, which contain many different elements for playing with water. The first set does not fit in the bathtub, it is for playing with water, but not in the bathtub itself, because... The dimensions are very large. The remaining two sets are just for the bath.
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Bath shower toy " Submarine"(Ozone, My-shop).
This is Antoshka's favorite toy. The submarine has a built-in pump that runs on batteries. Unfortunately, all we have left of the toy is the part that is attached to the wall with suction cups, and Submarine broke.
We used it almost every day, including in the pool at the dacha. Apparently, due to the fact that it lay in the water of the pool all summer, it broke.
Fishing(Ozone, My-shop) is another popular game among children. It can be played not only in the bathroom. But the magnets of the fishing rod will stick to the walls cast iron bath. If the child is small, you can catch fish with a strainer or net. And if the child is older, the walls of the bathtub will not be a problem for him.
Mill(My-shop) is a toy for both sand and water. We have three different ones and Antoshka plays them all with pleasure.
Nowadays there are expensive bath toys with all sorts of bells and whistles on sale, but here are simple ones like nets, watering cans, water transport, different containers are the most popular among children. And they cost pennies.
Any child will love it bath stickers, soft mosaic and soft construction set (My-shop).
In addition to the fact that children love to stick things to the walls of the bathtub, these toys also develop fine motor skills, imaginative and logical thinking.
Will delight the baby and all sorts of sprinklers, water pumps, pistols (My-shop).
We once bought a cheap bath pump. Antoshka didn't play it. It turned out they just bought it too early. As he approached the age of three, the pump became one of his favorite bath toys.
We buy our toys mainly from the My-shop store. Books are there, as a rule. more expensive than in the Labyrinth, but many of the toys are cheap. And the choice is huge. There are over 3,600 bath toys alone!
There are fewer bathing toys in Ozone, but they are mainly represented by well-known brands.
These simple games in the bathroom will help you get more pleasure from communicating with your child. Time flies very quickly, and soon you will remember how great you spent time with your child in the bath and helped him make the most interesting discoveries!
Water is a magical medicine. It has a beneficial effect on both adults and children. While adults associate bathing with resorts, sun loungers and sports equipment, children make do with a bucket, two or three cups and bottles. Bathing is a great opportunity for fun, so it seems unfair that time is often reserved for it at the end of the day, when children and parents are already tired. Troubles begin at the moment when children still want to play, and adults dream of quickly sending them to bed, so that they can then wash the dishes, discuss some business among themselves, or just go to bed. Make bathing a pleasant experience rather than a source of irritation. Treat it not as an annoying chore, but as a joyful moment of fun. If your bathroom is large enough, bring a chair, but if not, put a rug so you can kneel and lean toward your baby.
If you know you'll be busy for the rest of the day, try giving your baby a bath before lunch. Two types of bathing can be introduced. Explain to your child that sometimes in the evenings, when there is no time, bathing will be for “washing” purposes only. On these days, he should wash himself as quickly as possible. That being said, it's a good idea to take time to see how quickly your child can handle this task; or use an hourglass and let the swim end before the sand runs out. But on other days you should find time to turn bathing into a game. You can use multi-colored bath mats so that the child knows what kind of bath he will have today.
Bath time is a fun way to end the day. Most children love to play with water and splash it around. Keep a hanger, net or basket of toys in your bathroom at all times.
Use some of the water games suggested in this book and let your child create his own. But do not leave young children alone in the bathroom, even for a few minutes, until you are sure they know how to handle water and know the safety rules. Never allow children to get in and out of a slippery bathtub without help.
Your child can have a great time taking shaving cream and finger painting the bathroom walls. It's a great way to release energy, and who knows, maybe you'll discover a young Picasso. It's also a good idea to use a shaving brush. It can be used to entertain your child while washing his hair. And children who don't like having their hair washed can be easily occupied by collecting foam from their hair and painting the walls with it.
While washing your hair, stop for a minute and try to ■ “sculpt” a sculpture out of soapy hair. Bring a mirror so your child can see this “work of art” on their head.
Cut from inexpensive terry napkins or towels different colors fish-shaped shreds. They should not be too small, otherwise they will be unrecognizable, and too large, they will become heavy when wet. During bathing, let the child wash his feet with a red fish and his nose with a green one. You can wash your hands and feet with yellow fish, and other parts of your body with green fish.
How to cut
The shape of the fish is usually a horizontal oval, connected by the “sharp” side to the top of a small triangle.
For fun, introduce elements of “science fiction” into the bathing process. Break off small piece Alka Seltzer tablets and place in a film box. You can also use a small plastic medicine box. Fill it with water to the brim and close the lid tightly. Then give it to your child and let him feel the water bubbling inside. After a few minutes, the solution, bursting out, will produce a mini-explosion right in the bathroom. The lid will fly off and the bubbles will crawl down the wall of the box. Although the liquid is harmless and not dangerous to the eyes, it is best to keep the box away from your child's face.
Here are a few more fun games in the bathroom. Have your child fill a plastic cup with water, then cover it with a piece of paper. Pressing it with his hand, he must turn the cup upside down. Now, carefully sliding along the paper, you can move your hand away. The trick is that the water does not pour out. (If you have difficulty, use a container with a wider mouth and a shallower one.) Your child may not understand that the air pressure acting on the paper from below prevents the water from spilling out, but he will certainly enjoy the “science experiment” of sorts. Explain to him that the same laws that hold water in place help airplanes fly.
These magical “science experiments” develop curiosity. Try another amazing experiment. Have your child crumple up a paper handkerchief or napkin and place the wad in the bottom of a plastic cup. Then he must turn it upside down, making sure that the paper remains inside. After this, you need to place the inverted cup on the surface of the water strictly horizontally. When the child picks it up, he will be amazed to see that the paper remains dry. (But crumple the paper lightly and carefully. If you squeeze it too hard, it will fall out of the cup before the experiment begins.) Later, the child will understand that the air in the cup provides resistance, creating an air bubble that prevents liquid from entering the cup.
You can even play basketball while swimming. All you need is a small foam ball and a large plastic bowl floating in the bathtub. Invite your child to hit the basket three times in a row or do it in six shots. But remind him: you can't stand up in the bathroom.
Bathing can also provide aesthetic pleasure when it is accompanied by symphonic music or a choir from “My Fair Lady”, songs by Elvis Presley or Elton John. Bring a battery-powered cassette recorder into the bathroom, and every evening your child will wash himself while also enjoying the music. Classical music will calm an overly excited baby, rock music will support wild fun, and if you also want to sing, then turn on music from musicals. Playing music while swimming can be especially helpful if you feel tired and want to relax.
If you have a tape recorder or radio playing in your bathroom, you can invite your child to dance to the sound of music while drying himself.
If your baby is too excited, do not play invigorating music during bath time: marches or country music. It’s better to bring recordings of lullabies into the bathroom and make bathing quiet and calm so that the child can relax to these soothing melodies.
As your child gets older, you can allow him to shower occasionally. In order for children to love the shower, they first need to wash only under the supervision of their parents, and after a while they will no longer be afraid of water pouring into their faces. And then choose optimal time for swimming - morning or evening.
Let your child prepare supplies for cleaning the bathtub and tiles on the walls. An old toothbrush, a nail brush, a scrubbing brush, a sponge, and a thoroughly washed shampoo bottle may be useful for this. The baby will have fun filling it and pouring water onto the brush or sponge. Perhaps the child will want dolls and other toys to be bathed too. When he carefully washes the bathtub, walls and toys, he will also happily rub his little body.
Adults like to take a bath alone, but children enjoy having someone to keep them company. Keep a small bucket in the bathroom with different plastic people or animals. Let the child decide which of them are best placed on the corners of the bathtub, and which ones will dive into the soapy foam this evening, while saying: “I think they told us that it’s time to soap up and bathe.”
Sometimes it can be difficult to stop a cheerful child from washing himself. Try to focus his attention on something: let the child wash each part of the body in turn. At the same time, quickly name individual parts of the body, especially those that are located far from each other (for example, the nose, and then the knees). This will add dynamism to the game and reduce bath time, forcing the child to wash himself faster. For a change, you can sing some calm song* or while the child is washing, let him try to compose a poem about each part of the body.
Like this one:
The washcloth and I have no time for boredom,
I rub my hands with soap,
I rub my feet with soap -
This is me erasing myself.
Bubble
If you don't already know how much fun children get from playing with plastic straws, now you have the opportunity. Bring a few plastic cups or bowls and a few straws into the bathroom. Let the child pour them different quantities water and will try to blow bubbles in each of them. What volume of water is easier to let in? bubble- small or large? Invite him to blow a huge bubble right in the bath, or as many bubbles as possible, or a hundred small bubbles, or just two bubbles. He will have fun conducting a “science experiment.”
Warning
Blowing bubbles is not safe for the breathing of very young children. Wait until they're older and you'll have no problem keeping soap away from their eyes, ears, and mouths.
They hit the target
By decorating the bathtub and walls with shaving cream or shampoo, your child has the perfect opportunity to wash it off. Using a water pistol or plastic bottle, he aims at a soapy target to hit it. Observe how long it takes. To test accuracy, invite your child to place light plastic toys - cubes, small animals or paper cups on the edge of the bathtub against the wall. The point of shooting is to drop the first object, move the rest from one corner of the bath to another, or simply throw them into the water. Stack several toys on top of each other, making a pyramid, and let the child throw it into the water with a shot - this will cause great delight, and in addition, will help in training accuracy.
Encourage your child to bathe a few toys in the bath (making sure they won't be damaged by the water first). Let him put each toy in the water and separate them into floating and sinking. If your baby enjoys playing with floating toys, let him choose a few items from the kitchen that he can take into the bath and “sort” them there. Advise him to guess which of them will float and which will not; then, of course, this needs to be checked.
Practical knowledge
You can tell your child that objects that float on the surface of water are less dense, that is, they weigh less than water enclosed in the same volume. If a body sinks, then it is denser and weighs much more than the corresponding “water body”. Don't explain in too much detail. The ability for abstract thinking in children comes later. Now your child is just experimenting. When his brain develops and is ready to accept theory, the experience will help him in his studies. This applies to many children's games. IN preschool age What is important is not that children absorb any knowledge, but what they accumulate practical experience, which they later use in their learning process. If your child asks “why?”, keep your answers simple and clear so that this question will benefit him and not serve as an introduction to a boring rant.
Buy large thin foam sponges at the store. Cut out different figures from them - these could be fish, flowers or a soccer ball. Your child can play in the water with these fun sponges and then wash themselves with them. You'll see how much more fun it is to wash yourself with a yellow soccer ball than with a colorless old washcloth.
It is not necessary to buy a whole flotilla of ships for your little sailor. He will have no less fun making simple boats with his own hands to play with while swimming. Making a raft or boat is easy. If you want to build a raft, you first need to enjoy eating the popsicle and save the stick from it. As soon as you eat twelve pieces, you can start. Glue eight sticks side by side with four sticks, placing them crosswise on one side of the raft and on the other - and you will get a wonderful raft for toys. To make a boat, you need to cut out a triangle-sail from paper and glue it to a toothpick. Then secure the toothpick mast inside a plastic box or paper cup - and the ship is ready to sail.
Even though your kids are getting older, they still enjoy floating boats in the bathroom. Tape a plastic-covered map to your bathroom wall and dream of traveling to Spain, Kathmandu or Zanzibar. See if you can get there by ship. This way you will not only play with your child, but also be able to teach him a little geography lesson.
Children love to play with water, endlessly pouring it from one vessel to another, back and forth. Give your baby plastic jugs and bottles in different colors and sizes. From time to time, replace some vessels with others, changing their shape and size.
Piaget, a famous child psychologist, believes that children develop quantitative concepts very slowly. This means that they will claim that a tall, narrow pint bottle contains more water than a pint jar, even if they pour the water from the bottle into the jar several times. Quantitative concepts develop with age, and this process cannot be accelerated. But children who have extensive practical experience playing with different volumes of water learn these concepts faster. Moreover, children get great pleasure from this activity.
Give the child sitting in the bath a large rubber doll and a sponge. Let him thoroughly wash every part of her body, commenting in detail on his every action. At the same time, you gently rub the same parts of his body.
Let a few plastic frogs, fish or small dolls have a festive tea party in the bathroom. Give your child toy cups, saucers and glasses so that he can treat them appropriately.
Over the years, it is easy to forget how pleasant it can sometimes be to stretch out in warm bath, drowning in the foam caressing the body and even remembering some cute scene from a film of the forties. Children can be a great way to help us remember this. Pick an evening when you need to relax. Reward each other with a bubble bath. You can do this together or, after sending your baby to bed, enjoy it alone. If you catch yourself thinking: “I don’t have time for such nonsense,” repeat after us: “How bad it would be if life consisted only of work and there were no pleasures in it at all.” This advice, by the way, is useful both for very busy and tired dads and for moms who are always in a hurry to get somewhere.
Not everyone can carry it out, since this requires knowledge of anatomy. But if your understanding of body structure extends a little further than the difference between an elbow and a knee, you can safely use bath time to teach a fun anatomy lesson to your child. One evening you can tell him where the solar plexus is located, barely. Next time you will explain where the esophagus is. Ask if your little one would like to wash their heels today. Let him have fun discovering new words for himself.
Here are some more bathroom games:
1. When you wash your child’s hair with shampoo, you can make horns or a hedgehog or a mohawk from the soapy hair. Let your child look at himself in the mirror. Maybe after this he will begin to come up with other forms that you have not seen before.
2. Or you can make a charming hat for your child out of foam. Let him admire it. Then he will come up with models himself and thereby develop his imagination. Great, right?
3. Foam can be used to draw maps on the wall
In this article we will talk about playing with your baby while bathing, because every caring father, every loving mother wants her baby to have fun and enjoyment while bathing.
Do you play with your baby during bath time? There's probably laughter in the bathroom and foam flying into the air like miniature soap bubbles. When it's time to end your bath, you feel guilty. It is reassuring that tomorrow evening the baby will again have fun and splash in a warm bath.
First, you simply clean the baby with a damp cloth. Read more about this in our other article. A couple of weeks after birth, you need to move on to more intensive procedures. When a small wound remains at the site of the umbilical cord, you should bathe the child in the bath. Parents carefully fill it with boiled water. Experts say that such precautions are unnecessary. After swimming, you will still treat the wound with brilliant green. When the skin in this place tightens, you can “move” the little one into a large bathtub. Now bathing is not only a hygienic procedure, but also entertainment. First, the baby must get used to this amount of water. The easy way Show the child that water provides support - let him lie on it. Be sure to help the little one, because he won’t be able to cope on his own! Support him with one palm under his neck and the other under his back. Take your time, “swim” first to one end of the bath, then to the other. After a month, add new sensations. Bring your baby closer to the walls of the bathtub with his arms and legs. The baby will push off the surface, strengthening his muscles.
When the little one learns to sit up on his own, bathing will turn into real fun. He feels much
freer than before. There is no need to pour too much water into the bath. Place a rubber mat on the bottom of the bathtub. It will prevent slipping. First, the child learns how to make a fountain - hit the water with his palm, and then a storm
– dip your hands up to your elbows in water and move them back and forth. Give your baby rubber toys. Take
rubber ducky and hold it at the bottom of the bathtub. Then suddenly release it and it will fly out from under the water. The little one will really like it!
The water when swimming should be cool. The child will actively move in it. Too hot water negatively affects
on the heart. It is more difficult to move in water than in air, so while swimming your muscles become stronger.
Pour some baby bubbles into the bath. By the time the bathtub is fully filled, the mountain of foam will grow to the size of the Himalayas. You can
imitate a snowball fight. Foam will help you wash your little one's hair without any problems. Shampoo also becomes foam on your hair, and without it you wouldn’t be able to create so many original hairstyles. And Santa Claus turns out to be very funny!
Give the little one a bucket. Let him fill it with water and then pour it on himself. A fire hose can be a replacement. Take
the most ordinary plastic bottle. The baby will put it under water and watch how the air bubbles leave the bottle and are replaced by water. When the bottle is full, you need to point the neck towards the wall and squeeze the plastic sides.
Toddlers at this age love to experiment. Water is a great opportunity to learn something new. The size of any container can be determined while bathing. Give your baby a cup or plastic bowl. Let the child with
Use a cup to fill the bowl. How many cups of water did he need? Explain to your toddler what volume is. Freeze chamomile infusion or black tea. When your baby takes a bath, give him an ice cube. Invite him to put the cube on the bottom and see what happens. The cube will begin to disappear. Let the baby touch it and realize that the water near the cube has changed its color and become cooler.
Play panels that are attached to the edge of the bathtub help your baby understand that water has a certain power. Pouring out
water on the blades of the water mill, the little one will see how they rotate. This is the energy of water.
You can introduce your child to such a characteristic as weight. Show your little one how quickly a spoon sinks. Is that so?
Do plastic spatula and wooden ladle sink quickly? Whoever reaches the bottom faster weighs more. Experiment with a rubber frog and a small balloon. Tell your child why these objects don’t sink. Child
Will be looking forward to the next experiment! Thus, bathing for a child with elements of play will become not just a procedure of hygiene and health, but also an exciting game, and he will look forward to each bath.
with delight!
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