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Bath games for children 2 years old. Bath games for kids

In this article we will talk about games with the baby while bathing, because every caring father, every loving mother wants her baby to be fun and pleasant while bathing.

Do you play with your baby while bathing? There must be laughter in the bathroom, and the foam flies into the air like miniature soap bubbles. When it's time to finish bathing, you feel guilty. It is reassuring that tomorrow night the baby will again have fun and splash in a warm bath.

First, you simply wipe the child with a damp cloth. Read more about that, written in our other article. A couple of weeks after birth, you need to move on to more intensive procedures. When a small wound remains in place of the umbilical cord, you should bathe the child in the bath. Parents carefully fill it with boiled water. Experts say that such foresight is superfluous. After bathing, you will still treat the wound with brilliant green. When the skin in this place is tightened, you can "relocate" the little one to a large bath. Now bathing is not only a hygiene procedure, but also entertainment. First, the baby should get used to this amount of water. easy way show the child that water provides support - let him lie on it. Be sure to help the little one, because he can’t do it on his own! Support it with one palm under the neck, and with the other under the back. Do not rush, “swim” first to one end of the bath, then to the other. After a month, add new sensations. Bring the child closer to the walls of the tub with arms and legs. The baby will push off the surface, strengthening his muscles.

When the little one learns to sit on his own, bathing will turn into real entertainment. He feels much
freer than before. Do not pour too much water into the bath. Place a rubber mat on the bottom of the tub. It will prevent slipping. First, the child learns to make a fountain - hit the water with his palm, and then the storm
- dip the handles up to the elbow in water and move them back and forth. Give your baby rubber toys. Take
rubber duck and hold it at the bottom of the tub. Then abruptly release it, and it will fly out from under the water. The little one will love it!

Bathing a baby from one to two years. Improving coordination

Bathing water should be cold. The child will actively move in it. Too hot water negatively affects
on the heart. It is more difficult to move in the water than in the air, so muscles are strengthened while swimming.
Pour some baby foam into the bath. While the bath is full, the mountain of foam will grow to the size of the Himalayas. Can
imitate a snowball fight. Foam will help you wash your little one's head without any problems. Shampoo on the hair also becomes foam, and without it you would not be able to create so many original hairstyles. Yes, and Santa Claus is very funny!
Give the little one a bucket. Let him draw water into it, and then pour it over himself. A replacement can be a brand-spot. Take
the most common plastic bottle. The baby will lower it under water and watch how air bubbles leave the bottle and are replaced by water. When the bottle is full, you need to point the neck at the wall and squeeze the plastic sides.

Bathing in the bath of a child from two to three years

Toddlers at this age love to experiment. Water is a great opportunity to learn something new. The size of a container can be determined while swimming. Give your baby a cup or bowl made of plastic. Let the child
use the cup to fill the bowl. How many cups of water did he need? Explain to the little one what volume is. Freeze a decoction of chamomile or black tea. When the baby is swimming, give him an ice cube. Invite him to put the cube on the bottom and see what happens. The cube will disappear. Let the baby touch and understand that the water near the cube has changed its color and become cooler.

The play panels that are attached to the edge of the bath help the baby understand that water has a certain power. pouring out
some water on the blades of a water mill, the little one will see how they rotate. This is the energy of water.
You can introduce the child to such a characteristic as weight. Show the little one how fast the spoon sinks. Is it
do plastic spatulas and wooden scoops sink quickly? Whoever reaches the bottom faster, he weighs more. Experiment with a rubber frog and a small balloon. Tell your child why these items don't sink. Child
looking forward to the next experiment! Thus, bathing for a child with game elements will become not just a hygiene and health procedure, but also an exciting game, and he will look forward to every bath.
delight!
We also highly recommend seeing interesting video on the topic " What games can you come up with during
bathing your child».

Bathing a baby can be turned into an exciting activity that will not only bring him joy, but also benefit him.

Preparing for games

Before you turn the bathroom into a "playground", you should take care of the safety of the baby:

  • having collected the required amount of water, turn off the cold and hot taps so that the child does not inadvertently open them;
  • cover the bottom of the bath with a soft anti-slip mat;
  • maintain the optimum water temperature (+37-39°С);
  • if the crane cannot be deployed, cover it with a special plastic lining that will protect the baby from shock.

After eating, at least an hour must pass before taking a bath, otherwise the baby may spit up food eaten or experience discomfort when bathing. You should not organize pranks while bathing if the child is tired or sleepy.

First water games

Bath games should be introduced at 7-8 months when the baby.

Up to a year, children are usually bathed in a special plastic bath, on the bottom of which an anti-slip mat should be laid.

  • "Toy Search"
  • "Magic Cubes"

Freeze water cubes tinted with some natural dye or syrup. When bathing your baby, put them in the water. The child will definitely reach for the colored ice cubes and be surprised by the temperature difference. You can pass the cube on the cheeks or palms of the crumbs. To the great amazement of the baby, after a while the cubes will melt and disappear.

Water fun

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For older children, you can organize even more exciting games in the water. But so that they do not get bored, you should not spend them every time you bathe.

  • "Shipwreck"

Build a toy flotilla out of pre-made paper boats or use various plastic items for this purpose (plastic cups, containers from kinder surprises, etc.). Having launched the ships to sail, invite your child to make a real storm with the help of a cocktail straw. This exercise serves to strengthen and ventilate the lungs.

  • "Young Artist"

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 for this. The results of creativity are easily washed off the walls of the bath or tile. Such entertainment develops fine motor skills, helps in the knowledge of colors.

  • "Games with a washcloth"

You can come up with various entertainments with an ordinary bath washcloth. Teach your baby to squeeze it alternately with both hands. This exercise will be a fun exercise for your fingers. Or arrange a competition by squeezing water from a sponge into plastic cups with your baby. Invite your child to sponge one of their dolls or toys. From multi-colored foam rubber sponges, cut out a variety of funny figures. Bathing and fun with them will become much more interesting.

  • "Drown - will not drown"

In the bath, it is easy to familiarize the baby with such a property of objects as “buoyancy”. This will require items from various materials(rubber ball, wooden cube, plastic bottle, paper boat). Demonstrate how some objects are easily held on the surface of the water, others immediately go to the bottom, and still others gradually become heavier and sink into the water.

  • "Bubble"

Bath - perfect place for fun with 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 their own hands. If you turn on the fan in the room at minimum power, you get a bewitching spectacle.

  • "Balloons"

Lightweight ping pong balls are great fun to play with while swimming. In addition, with their help, you can teach your child a simple account. Use an indelible marker to draw one stick on some of them, and two on others. Invite the child to sort the balls into two piles, depending on the number of drawn sticks, and then count the balls in each pile. The task becomes more difficult if you count all the balls, throwing them one by one into the water or putting them in a box.

You can use ready-made sets of toys made of waterproof materials (rubber, plastic, silicone) for fun in the bathroom. These are all kinds of suction cup toys, aqua puzzles, sprinklers, waterfalls, etc. The main rule - never leave the baby in the bathroom unattended.

May be of interest:

Bath games for children are not just fun. They also introduce the child to amazing properties objects, the laws of physics, soothe nervous system relaxing and uplifting at the same time.

But don't limit yourself to rubber ducks and boats. There are many fun and educational games in the bathroom. Some games your baby will play as soon as he learns to sit, while others will become available to him at 2, 3, 4 years.

In the article, I will also talk about interesting bathing toys.

Swimming preparation

  • Lay down an anti-slip mat.
  • If the child is still unsure of sitting, use a special bath seat.
  • Prepare to be wet, very wet. The more fun the games, the more water on the floor and mom. So get your rags ready. Sometimes I change clothes.

Simple games in the bathroom

  • Transfusion. This is probably one of the first games of any child. And one of my favorites.
  • Fishing. Fish can be caught not only with a magnetic fishing rod, but also with a strainer, net.
  • Kinder eggs. We pour a bunch of eggs from kinders, plastic balls into the bath. We wallow with them, throw them, catch them with a colander, strainer, etc.

  • Collecting rocks and shells from the bottom of the bath.
  • Theater. You can show your baby a real performance in the bathroom, telling familiar tales and inventing new ones.

Story games in the bathroom

Here everything is limited only by your imagination and the interests of the child.

  • My doll. If you have a girl, she will wash her baby doll with pleasure. But in practice, the boys love to play it too.
  • Wash. You can wash in the bath, or you can use a separate container by placing it on a plastic base (container, basin). The child will be interested in soaping doll clothes or even their own. At the same time we are raising a little helper.
  • tea drinking. We feed and drink toys from toy dishes.
  • . One of my son's favorite games. You can wash it with just water, but it’s even more interesting to use bath foam and rinse it off with a shower.

  • Passenger transportation. We transport small toys from one coast to another. For the game, you can use not only boats, but also ordinary plastic containers.
  • Shipwreck. All boys love destruction and all sorts of incidents. We create artificial waves, make a storm and rain from the shower, and then save sinking ships and passengers. Such games help direct aggression (which is and should be in every person) in the right direction, and at the same time feel like a rescuer.
  • Flood. While there is still little water in the bathroom, the baby will like to watch how the incoming water absorbs cars, makeshift houses. And it's great to save toys!
  • Animal world. By playing, we can show the child how different animals behave in the water. How a seagull catches fish, how dolphins play, how seals get ashore. To do this, of course, you will need rubber or plastic toys, pieces of cloth (jellyfish).

This, of course, is not all story games that we play.

You just start, and then your child will come up with fantastic stories for games, and you will only be surprised at his ingenuity.

Experiments while bathing

  • Item properties. Children love to watch the water change. various items- paper, rag, bag, etc.
  • Squeeze sponge. Toddlers develop motor skills in this way. And if you squeeze it into a separate container, and then put a sponge in it and watch how the water disappears, this is real magic for a child. You can also invite the child to collect drops of water from the tiles or sides of the bath.
  • duem into a tube, a short hose and watch how bubbles appear, and even with sound.
  • Dropping the bottle into the water or other container to make bubbles.
  • Sinking - not drowning. We put objects in the water and see which ones sink and which do not. And if you lower it to the bottom, which ones will emerge.
  • Checking which toy is higher that will jump out of the water.
  • (light toy, foam on the wall) from a water gun, a water bottle with a hole in the lid, a douche, a water gun (My-shop).

Playing with foam and shower

For playing with foam, it is important that it is hypoallergenic, ideally not to pinch your eyes. And the shower needs to be set up in such a way that the jets do not hit the baby in the face, at least until he is just learning to interact with him.

  • Fountain. The easiest shower game ever. The jets rise up so nicely, tickle your fingers. What happens if you submerge the shower in water?
  • Rinse off shaving foam. Use shaving foam to draw letters, numbers, any patterns or just dots on the bathroom wall. Have your child wash them off with a shower. A great way to learn letters and numbers in the game. Antoshka loves this game.

  • Blowing on bubble bath. You can also blow on light objects in the bathroom and watch them float.
  • Who is hiding under the foam. Dilute more foam in the water and invite the baby to look for who is hiding under it and where the toy has gone.
  • foam hairstyle. Lather your child's hair with fun hairstyles and show the result in the mirror.
  • clean tractor.

Is there a child who will remain indifferent to drawing in the bathroom? Antoshka doesn't want to get out when we draw.

Attention! Don't do it on acrylic bath. And on cast iron, first try on a small area, can you wash it.

After such games, I wash the bath and tiles with bath detergent, and the seams between the tiles - citric acid. Everything takes no more than 10 minutes.

  • We are drawing finger paints, gouache, shaving foam. There are also bathroom pencils.
  • While drawing you can learn colors, learn letters and numbers. Well, all sorts of kalyaki-paintings on the whole wall will delight the child.
  • We wash off the paint shower. This is another entertainment.
  • Swimming in the mud. After Antoshka washes off the paint, he enjoys floundering in the colored water. Sometimes it takes on a not very aesthetic appearance. But the child is delighted.

bath toys

The most common are rubber toys, boats, boats, a water mill. You won't go wrong buying them. Any child else long years will play them.

For example, boats:


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Well, where without clockwork toys:


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The firm "Polesie" has sets of " water world “, which contain many different elements for playing with water. The first set does not fit in the bath, it is for playing with water, but not in the bath itself, because. dimensions are very large. The other two sets are just for the bath.


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Bath Shower Toy « Submarine"(Ozone, My-shop).

This is Antoshkin's favorite toy. The submarine has a built-in battery-operated pump. Unfortunately, we only have the part of the toy that is attached to the wall with suction cups, and the submarine broke.

They used it almost daily, including in the pool in the country. Apparently, due to the fact that she had lain in the water of the pool all summer, she broke down.

Fishing(Ozone, My-shop) is another popular game for kids. It can be played not only in the bathroom. But the rod magnets will stick to the walls. cast iron bath. If the child is small, fish can be caught with a strainer, net. And if the child is older, the walls of the bath 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 with pleasure in all of them.

Today there are expensive bath toys with all sorts of bells and whistles on sale, but simple ones like nets, watering cans, water transport, different containers are the most popular among children. And they cost pennies.

Any child will love bath stickers, soft mosaic and soft constructor (My-shop).

In addition to the fact that children love to stick something to the walls of the bath, these toys also develop fine motor skills, imaginative and logical thinking.

Will please the baby and all sorts sprinklers, water pumps, pistols (My-shop).

We once bought a penny bath pump. Antoshka did not play it. It turned out they just bought it early. By the age of three, the pump had become one of his favorite bath toys.

We buy our toys mainly in My-shop. Books are usually there. more expensive than in the Labyrinth, but many toys are cheap. And the choice is huge. There are more than 3600 bath toys alone!

There are fewer bathing toys in Ozone, but they are mainly represented by well-known brands.

The bath is a separate play area. You can, of course, run a ton of toys into the bath with a child, they say, let him swim and have fun. But, firstly, you can’t leave the baby alone in the bathroom - it’s scary. Secondly, he will quickly get tired of flopping alone in a confined space, it's just boring. 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 it, I would even say it’s necessary!

True, games for children in the bathroom require more imagination (from parents). The banal transfusions from one jar to another, which we also practiced while Styopka was very small, are no longer interesting to the grown little man. Swimming ducks, fish, boats - and even more so. Our "bathroom" games have grown with our son. So I tried to build my gaming review in ascending order. First, what we played 3 years ago, and in the end - what we play now.

Miracle Yudo whale fish

This game for children helped our Stepka get rid of her fear of water. Not that he was afraid to swim, but he was afraid to immerse his face in water. We began to accustom him to this gradually. First, the chin was immersed, then the chin again ... and again the chin. Things didn't go any further. And then we started playing miracle Yudo.

When I myself was taking a bath, 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. She does this “boooo,” I said and exhaled into the water.

    A maa-a-a-a-scarlet fish is swimming behind her, - I said in a thin voice. – And she does so “heeeee”.

Stepka was amused by this game. Then he, climbing into the bath, began to repeat after me.

Then our "fish" began to dive and even fearlessly open its eyes under water. And stories about big fish Boo and little Hee we told our son for a long time before going to bed. He liked them very much.

water hide and seek

Of course, you can come up with different stories with toys that bathe with the child in the bathroom. But, to be honest, sometimes the head does not cook at all and there is no longer the strength to invent something. And besides, the baby wants movement, 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. Do not think anything bad! You take a rubber toy and lower it under the water, to the very bottom. The toy seemed to be hidden. And now let go of 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 higher." So far, no one has managed to outdo the little yellow duck, presented for Stepkin's first birthday. She jumps higher than baby 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 mother left a measuring cup (she measures it with washing powder). I rinsed this glass and gave it to Styopka, who at that moment was taking a bath.

  • Guess how many teaspoons of water you need to pour to fill the glass to the first mark? I asked.

Then we began to measure the glass with different containers: small measuring spoons, a children's scoop. The son was interested.

Recently, I brought two plastic cups into the bath. Styopka and I took one small sponge each and started a competition: who will fill his glass with water the fastest. We squeezed water out of sponges, which we soaked in water every now and then.

One, two, aim

I'll warn you right away - this is a dangerous game. And not because she is a danger to life, but because she is a danger ... from her mother. Water in some strange way gets on the floor, although we try to play very carefully every time. Mom is not very happy about puddles and swears at us. But this is perhaps the only by-effect games.

In advance, I prepared two sprinklers (in small lids plastic bottles pierced holes from under the water 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 bathroom (not on the opposite wall), otherwise the universal flood cannot be avoided.

We fill the bottle with water and, on command, shoot from the bottles with a water jet at the target. Moreover, if at first the winner was the one who simply hit a certain tile, now we have complicated the task. On the tile with mom's lipstick, draw a target and aim exactly at it.

Shipwreck

Yogurt jars are a great thing! How many times have they helped us out in various amusements. For games in the bathroom, the jars turned into ships. Plastic bottle caps have become lifeboats. We play the whole battle battles!

Small baby dolls float on ships, we “plant” toys from Kinder surprises in boats.

We already have a pirate ship on which baby doll Jack Sparrow floats. Each 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 leaked (after all, the jar is not designed to participate in battle 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

A place of honor is occupied by games for children with bath foam. And among them, the game with shaving foam stands apart. I don’t hide it, I feel sorry for my foam (after all, this is not a cheap thing), but sometimes you can play with it. It turns out very interesting.

So, we take shaving foam, add food coloring to it and we get body paint. We did real body art. Styopka was so painted that it was time to show him at the exhibition! We did very well. Such a trick with ordinary foam will not work, it is more loose.

But the bubble bath is amazing. construction material. If you put it in a bigger bath, you can build a whole city. And blow out entire grottoes and secret passages with a cocktail tube.

Or put a plastic bowl on the opposite edge of the bath and throw foam balls into it.

You can also make awesome hairstyles out of foam. On Styopka's head we erected a whole head, sculpted horns and adorned the head with a crown.

In general, entertainment, as it turned out, a lot. So it can be very difficult to fish out our little fish - Styopka always crawls out of the bathroom with tears. And before, by the way, I didn’t really like to swim.

These simple bath games will help you have more fun with your baby. Time flies very fast and soon you will remember how great you spent time with your child in the bathroom and helped him make interesting discoveries!

Water is a magical medicine. It has a beneficial effect on both adults and children. While adults associate swimming with resorts, sun loungers and sports equipment, children get by with a bucket, two or three cups and bottles. Bathing is a great opportunity for entertainment, and therefore it seems unfair that time for it is often set aside at the end of the day, when children and parents are already tired. Troubles begin at a time 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 an enjoyable experience, not an annoyance. Treat it not as an annoying duty, but as joyful moments of fun. If your bathroom is spacious enough, bring a chair in there, and if not, put a rug in so you can kneel and lean towards the baby.

If you know you'll be busy for the rest of the day, try to bathe your baby before dinner. Two types of bathing can be introduced. Explain to the child that sometimes in the evenings, when there is no time, bathing will be only for “washing”. These days he should wash himself as quickly as possible. In this case, it would be nice to notice the time to find out how quickly your child can handle this case; or use hourglass, and let the bathing be over before the sand spills over. But on other days, you must find time to turn bathing into a game. You can use colorful bath mats to let your child know what kind of bath he will have today.

The bathing game is a pleasant way to end the day. Most children love to play with water and splash it around. Keep a hanger, net, or toy basket in your bathroom at all times.

Use some of the water games in this book and let your child create their own. But do not leave small children alone in the bath, even for a few minutes, until you are sure that they know how to handle water and know the safety rules. Never let toddlers get in and out of a slippery bathtub without the help of an older one.

Soap foam game

Your child can have a great time picking up shaving cream and painting bathroom walls with their finger. This is a great way to release energy, and who knows, maybe you will discover a young Picasso. It's also good to work with a shaving brush. It can be used while entertaining the baby while shampooing. And children who do not like having their hair washed are easy to keep busy collecting foam from their hair and painting walls with it.

While washing your hair, stop for a moment and try to "sculpt" a sculpture out of soapy hair. Bring a mirror so the child can see this "work of art" on their head.

Aquarium in the bathroom

Cut out inexpensive terry cloths or towels different colors pieces in the form of fish. They should not be too small, otherwise they will be unrecognizable, and too large, they will become heavy when wet. While 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 a yellow fish, and other parts of the body with a green one.

How to cut

The shape of the fish is, as a rule, a horizontal oval, connected by a "sharp" side to the top of a small triangle.

Whistling screech

For fun, add some "sci-fi" elements to the bathing process. Break off a small piece of an Alka Seltzer tablet and place in a film box. You can also use a small plastic medicine box. Fill it up to the brim with water and close the lid tightly. Then give it to the child in your hands and let him feel the water bubbling inside. After a few minutes, the solution, breaking out, will produce a mini-explosion right in the bathroom. The lid will pop off and bubbles will crawl down the side of the box. Although the liquid is harmless and not dangerous to the eyes, it is still best to keep the box away from the child's face.

Magic water games

Here are some more fun bath games. Have the 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 over the paper, you can take your hand away. The trick is that the water does not spill out. (If you're having trouble, use a wider-mouthed, shallower container.) Your child may not realize that the air pressure on the bottom of the paper keeps the water from escaping, but he'll certainly enjoy some kind of "science experiment." Explain to him that the same laws that keep water in check help airplanes fly.

Such magical "scientific 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 that, you need to put 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 has remained 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 learn that the air in the cup resists, creating an air bubble that prevents liquid from entering the cup.

Basketball

While swimming, you can even play basketball. All you need is a small foam ball and a large plastic bowl floating in the tub. Encourage your child to hit the "basket" three times in a row, or do it in six throws. But remind him not to get up in the bathroom.

Music in the bathroom

Bathing can also be aesthetically pleasing when accompanied by symphonic music or a choir from My Fair Lady, Elvis Presley or Elton John. Bring a battery-powered cassette recorder into the bathroom and your child will bathe every night while enjoying music as well. Classical music will calm an overly excited baby, rock music will support wild fun, but if you also want to sing, then turn on music from musicals. Music while bathing will be especially helpful if you feel tired and want to relax.

Dancing with a towel

If you have a tape recorder or radio playing in your bathroom, you can invite your child to dry off and dance to the music.

Lullaby in the bathroom

If the baby is too excited, do not turn on invigorating music during the bath, such as marches or country music. Instead, bring lullaby tapes to the bathroom and make the bath quiet and relaxing so that the baby can rest under these melodies caressing the ear.

shower time

As your child gets older, you can allow him to shower occasionally. In order for children to love the shower, at first it is necessary that they 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 the best time for swimming - morning or evening.

wash the bathroom

Let the child prepare the bathroom and wall tile cleaning supplies. For this, an old toothbrush, nail brush, scraper brush and sponge, as well as a thoroughly washed shampoo bottle, can come in handy. The kid will have fun filling it and pouring water onto a brush or sponge. Maybe the child will want dolls and other toys to be bathed too. When he diligently washed the bath, walls and toys, he would rub his little body with pleasure at the same time.

Bath for toys

Adults like to take a bath alone, but children are happy when someone keeps them company. Keep a small bucket in the bathroom with various plastic people or animals. Let the child decide which of them is better placed on the corners of the bath, and which ones will dive into the soapy foam this evening, while saying: "It seems we were told that it's time to soap and bathe."

Wash your nose, wash your feet

Sometimes it can be difficult to stop a merry child and get him to wash. Try to draw his attention to something: let the child wash each part of the body in turn. As you do this, quickly name individual parts of the body, especially those that are far apart (for example, the nose, and then the knees). This will add dynamism to the game and reduce the bath time, making the child wash faster. For a change, you can sing some kind of calm song * or while the child is washing, let him try to compose a rhyme about each part of the body.

Like this one:
We are not bored with a washcloth,
I rub my hands with soap
I rub my feet with soap -
This is me erasing myself.
Bubble

If you didn't know how much fun children get from playing with a plastic straw, now you have the opportunity. Bring some plastic cups or bowls and some straws into the bathroom. Let the child pour different amounts of water into them and try to blow bubbles in each of them. In what volume of water is it easier to blow soap bubbles - in small or large? Have him blow a huge bubble right in the tub, or as many bubbles as possible, or a hundred small bubbles, or just two bubbles. He will amuse himself by conducting a "scientific experiment".

Warning

Blowing bubbles is not safe for the breath of the youngest children. Wait until they are old enough to keep their eyes, ears, and mouths free of soap.

Shot at the target

By decorating the bath and walls with shaving cream or shampoo, your child has a great opportunity to wash them off. Using a water pistol or a plastic bottle, he aims at a soap target to hit it. Watch how long it takes. To test accuracy, invite your child to arrange light plastic toys - cubes, small animals or paper cups on the edge of the bath against the wall. The point of shooting is to drop the first object and move the rest from one corner of the tub to another or simply drop them into the water. Stack a few toys on top of each other to form a pyramid and let the child knock it over into the water with a shot - this will cause great delight, and besides, it will help in training accuracy.

Sinking or floating

Have your baby bathe a few toys in the tub (after making sure they won't get damaged by the water first). Have him dip each toy into the water and separate them into floating and sinking ones. If your toddler enjoys playing with floating toys, let him choose a few items in the kitchen to take into the bath and sort them out. Advise him to guess which of them will swim and which will not; then this, of course, 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 the body sinks, then it is denser and weighs much more than the corresponding "water body". Don't explain too much. The ability to think abstractly in children comes later. Now your child is just experimenting. When his brain develops and is ready to perceive the theory, the experience will help him in his studies. This applies to many children's games. IN preschool age it is not important that children absorb any knowledge, but that they accumulate practical experience, which they later use in the 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 tedious ranting.

cute sponge

Buy large, thin foam rubber sponges from the store. Cut out different figures from them - it can be fish, flowers or a soccer ball. The child can play in the water with these fun sponges and then wash with them. You will see how much more interesting it is to wash with a yellow soccer ball than with a colorless old washcloth.

Cruise

It is not necessary to buy a whole fleet of ships for your little sailor. He will get no less pleasure, mastering with his own hands simple boats to play with them while bathing. Making a raft or boat is easy. If you want to build a raft, you must first eat the popsicle with pleasure, and keep the stick from it. Once you've eaten twelve pieces, you're good to go. Glue eight sticks side by side with four sticks, placing them across on one side of the raft and on the other - and you get a wonderful toy raft. To make a boat, you need to cut a sail triangle out of paper and glue it to a toothpick. Then fasten 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 love to play boats in the bathtub. Stick a plastic-covered map on your bathroom wall and dream of a trip to Spain, Kathmandu or Zanzibar. See if you can get there by ship. So you will not only play with the child, but also be able to teach him a small lesson in geography.

From empty to empty

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 one vessel with another, changing their shape and size.

Piaget, a well-known child psychologist, believes that quantitative representations develop very slowly in children. This means that they will claim that a tall, narrow half-liter bottle contains more water than a half-liter jar, even if they pour the water from the bottle into the jar several times. Quantitative representations develop with age, and this process cannot be accelerated. But in children who have a lot of practical experience in playing with different volumes of water, these ideas are absorbed faster. Plus, the kids get a lot of enjoyment out of it.

Bath for a doll

Give the baby in the tub a big rubber doll and a sponge. Let him carefully wash every part of her body, commenting in detail on each of his actions. At the same time, you gently rub the same parts of his body.

Children's Corner

Have a few plastic frogs, fish, or little dolls host a festive tea party in the bathroom. Give your child toy cups, saucers, and glasses so that he can give them a decent treat.

Linen bath

Over the years, it is easy to forget how pleasant it is sometimes to stretch out in a warm bath, drowning in foam caressing the body, and even remembering some nice scene from a movie of the forties. Children can do a great job of helping us remember this. Choose an evening when you need to relax. Reward each other with a bubble bath. You can do it together or send your baby to bed and 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 would be no pleasure in it at all.” This advice, by the way, is useful for both very busy and tired dads and moms who are always in a hurry somewhere.

anatomy lesson

Not everyone can conduct it, because knowledge of anatomy is required for this. But if your understanding of body structure goes a little further than understanding the difference between an elbow and a knee, you can safely use bathing to teach your child a fun anatomy lesson. One evening you can tell him where the solar plexus is located, barely. next time you 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 bath games:

1. When you wash your child's hair with shampoo, you can make horns or a hedgehog, or a mohawk out of soapy hair. Let your child look at themselves in the mirror. Maybe after that he will begin to come up with other forms that you have not seen before.
2. And you can make a charming hat out of foam for a child. Let love. Then he will come up with models himself and thereby develop his imagination. It's great, right?
3.Foam can be drawn on the wall of cards