Happy Thursday! I fully intended on having the twins’ nursery ready to reveal today, but as many of you mommies know, when there are household catastrophes like melted red crayons in your dryer and dishwasher, those clean-ups take preference. Here’s to hoping I’ll be able to get back to the nursery soon!
In an effort to occupy Baylen with an activity that couldn’t result in red stains on white shirts, I opted to do something that was contained to the bathtub this time. I saw this awesome idea on Caitlyn’s blog recently, and was so excited to give it a try. Thanks for the great idea, Caitlyn!
Baylen loves to take baths, and since those minutes are some of the only ones throughout the day when I can keep him contained to a small space, I try to take full advantage and turn it into a “classroom”. I’m working on teaching him colors right now, so often times we’ll sort his fishies into groups, and I’ll ask him to point to the blue fishy, then the red fishy, ect. Well, this bath paint was also perfect for teaching! Not only did he love to explore the texture, but we also talked about what colors he was using as he painted!
Another major benefit of the bath paint? We did it right before his nap and it really helped to soothe and relax him. His eyes were getting pretty heavy by the end.
Bath Paint for Kids
Supplies:
-2 tablespoons corn starch per color
-1/3 cup kid friendly soap per color
-food coloring
-enough water to give it a paint like consistency
-muffin tin
-paintbrush
Directions: Stir ingredients together in muffin cups.
Since Baylen isn’t at an age where he can stand confidently in water, I just plopped him in the dry tub with the paint and let him go to town so he wouldn’t slip and fall. When he was finished, we rinsed out the paint and gave him a bath to get him squeaky clean. Easy as that!
Question: What bath time activities did you/do you do with your kiddos?
Amber
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2 Comments
thanks for the link, you have a great site here and congrats on the twin girls! that is so exciting. You had a good idea to let him play in the tub with the paint and THEN fill up the tub. As you can see from my pictures the tub water got a little disgusting from all the different paint colors. Glad Baylen likes the bath activity.
OMG that picture with the paint on Baylen’s face is adorable! I have been wanting to do this for such a long time but always forget! Might be a good one for tomorrow since I’m a single parent right now. I’m running out of things to do by the time 5:00 rolls around. Great idea!