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My son Jackson started having showers instead of baths at a crazy early age. He discovered he liked the shower at the swimming pool, so I turned into the only mother with a 2 year old calling out that it was time for his shower.
My daughter Olivia is a regular bath loving little kid. She loves to have a variety of fun toys… of course the Disney toys are top pick… and she’ll play happily until her fingers and toes turn to raisins.
Susan’s two girls were different from each other in how they spent their bath times. Julia would often have to be enticed by toys to get into the bath and then would usually stay in only as long as Susan was actively playing games with her.
But from an early age Sophia loved her bath time and often asked to get in the bath and then would play with her toys by herself singing along and making up stories for herself. She would be in ultimate bliss and as a mother and aunt watching her happily play by herself we were in equal bliss.
Whether your child likes to shower like Jackson or lounge in the bath like Sophia, they all love fun bath/shower toys and soaps/shampoos with their favorite characters. It just makes getting clean so much more fun.
Week 6: Have a Blast in the Bath
After a long day of classes, recess and after-school play, kids need to clean up – and wind down.
The key to getting your little ones to love the tub is to make it a treat, not a task. Shampoo, body wash and bath sponges with their favorite Disney characters promise that when it comes to fun, bath time is never a wash!
Tips to help make bath time fun:
- Transition play time to bath time by allowing your kids to pick out which bath toys they want to play with
- Let your kids pick a shampoo or body wash with their favorite Disney character and create a story to make bath time more fun
Head over to the DCP’s official Facebook page, Disney Living, to find out more about this week’s challenge and tips from the “Go-To Mom,” Kimberley Clayton Blaine, who has partnered with Disney to bring weekly video parenting tips.
Giveaway!
If you’d like to win a prize pack of the fun bath products shown above, leave a comment telling us “What bath time games make the biggest splash with your kids?”
This giveaway will end on Friday October 28, 2011 at midnight ET and a winner will be chosen at random and announced Sunday in the weekly Around The Blogosphere. Please see our site’s terms and conditions for more information.
Please note that we are compensated Disney Brand Ambassadors, but as I said, our love of Disney and all of our opinions are completely our own!
Written by Janice Croze, co-founder of 5 Minutes for Mom.
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Allison King says
My son loves to take matchbox cars in the tub and play “car wash” …and he loves anything from Disney.
nicole says
My 3 year old daughter thinks she is a grown woman. She likes talking showers every chance she can. So I started getting bath toys and different things for her to play with in the bath tub. Now she thinks its a swimming pool. She would play in the tub all day if I let her. She would love this bath stuff as would my son!!!
Jamie Brigham says
Using the bath crayons to write on the wall and draw funny pictures is what my children love, we also use silly soap, it’s like silly string and spray everyone LOL
mia says
My son LOVES to play with his fingerpaint & crayon soap!
Nicole says
A shower for sure is what my daughter likes. If she had these Disney products, they would be so happy
Barb says
My son prefers a shower, but if he had these products from Disney he may prefer a tub bath
Leigh says
My children would love anything from Disney. They love to play in the tub!
Ann says
Anything with Disney on it would be a hit at my house. They love bath time if they have toys to play with.
Jen Shirley says
We blow bubbles in the tub and the kids like to make beards and silly hair with bubbles
Niecey Docherty says
My kids love playing a game with bubbles in the bath, where they put bubbles in their hands and then clap their hands and make the bubbles go flying
Stacey says
Bath time would much more fun if they had all these goodies to bathe with!
Amy says
My son would love his favorite characters in the tub with him. It would be so much fun for him. Great giveaway Ladies.
Alison says
My girls like to take a shower but if they had toys, like these, they would want to shower three times a day!
Debby says
For some reason my granddaughters think my bath tub is wonderful. It is larger than theirs and they like to fill it as high as they can. At home they take showers, but at my house bathtime is playtime. This would be right up their alley. They may never get out if they had all of the gifts on this prize giveaway!
Tami M says
Out of the 37 toys floating in his bathwater, my 13 month old has always grabbed his little water squirting, hot pink starfish first. Every time. 🙂
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NAN says
we have a thomas train bath set that we love to play with and have the trains swim through water
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rubya_aftab says
my 15 mnth baby hadi ,he is my first baby mashALLAH, he’s soo naughty MASHALLAH lol he wants to sit in bucket and play with the bottleslike my shampoo his shampoo and all other stuff and i after his bath it luks tht i was in bucket too lol he splash wateer all over mee i haD to change then <3
Erica Best says
my nephew loves his rubber duck and making shapes in the tub at bath time.
Terra Heck says
It’s all about painting on the walls with bath colors or using figurine toys as a scuba team.
Missy says
Anything with bubbles!
tennille says
we love finger paints and bubbles for our tub time
Idaho Jill says
any type of bucket is always a hit, and fingerpaints, of course!
Brandy says
My kids love playing with their toys. They have little sharks, fishes and ducks, that they swim around the tub.
Wehaf says
Squirty toys are a big hit!
Christine Jensen says
My kids are pretty well entertained by the bath itself, and maybe a few cups for dumping 🙂
JUNE says
Such cute little products, sure to make bath time allot of fun for any little one.
Mozi Esmes Mom says
My daughter’s favorite is when I put on a doggie washcloth puppet and pretend to eat the bubbles and water she feeds the doggie.
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Drew Stevenson says
They love to play with the bubbles.
Kathy Stevenson says
My girls love to play with their City blocks that stick on the side of the tub!
Staci A says
My son has a bathtime basketball hoop that he loves to play with. He also loves games where he gets to squirt water out of his toys. It usually winds up a huge wet mess, but he’s always happy.
Suzanne says
Last night I sprayed shaving cream on the wall in the bathroom and let the kids play in it, rub it into the wall and write letters in it.
Happymomc says
A simple game of splashing water and singing – she loves that the best!
Nadia says
My kids love to play “shark” in the tub!
JoannaTopazT says
My daughter likes to spell crazy words she’s invented out of her foam letters — she tries to use all of them to make really long words stuck to the sides of the tub — and then make me pronounce these “words” while she giggles hysterically.
Cheryl W. says
I try to play educational games with my daughter during bath time. I fill the tub with foam numbers, plastic toys, spoon and other various water proof items and then to add the bubbles. My daughter steps in, sits down and feels for items. She gets three guess before she can bring it up out of the cloud of bubbles. This helps with her memory and using her minds eye to recall things. I have used coins such as pennys, nickles and quarters (after they were cleaned) to memorize her money values, also her numbers 1-9. She also make up a story using the bubbles are her props. She is going to be an author some day!
Leanne M says
My kids love anything and everything that pours water out. They could stay in the tub with cups only for hours.
Erin says
My daughter loves a doll she can take in the tub and also give a bath to. However, even the enticement of toys doesn’t make her eager to take one most days!
Jamie says
My son was a big fan of reading in the bathtub…this was one of the few times I could get him to sit still!! Haha! Now we keep a big basket of toys in the tub – he loves things he can stick to the walls of tub like dinosaurs and letters!!
Elisabeth says
Playing with Barbies in the bath tops the list! 🙂
Tiffany M in MS says
Splashing is always the most fun…especially when mom’s says not too….also playing mermaid!!
safiyyah says
My children love bath time with toys.
marina says
With my 5 year old it’s always storytime in the tub with all the toys .For my 16 month old is a “dunk” party!! lol