How to keep mold out of bath or water toys

Kids love bath and water toys so you are bound to buy some or even get some as gifts for little ones. My son loved the rubber duckies for bath when he was little. You would buy them and after several baths the water would store inside and cause mold. YUCK!!

Good thing I didn't invest too much in squeeze toys with him. But my daughter well she loves all those toys and we went to Disney several months ago and my mom bought Cate the princess collection of squeeze toys for the bath. I didn't want them messed up so I kept them from going in the bath.

Well now I don't have to worry about it. YEAH!! Thanks to the great mom's over at We Love Being Moms with their GREAT idea to hot glue the hole so you get no mold.

I did this great trick and it works!!

All you need is a glue gun, can buy one at the Dollar Tree. Heat it up, then fill the hole with the glue and let it dry. I applied 2 layers of glue to seal good and let it sit for couple minutes. Worked great!! See picture below.

 

 

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Dinosaur eggs erupting bath fun

Jake and Cate have really been into the dinosaur play, so I made them a fun erupting dinosaur bath for them to play in.

I put together some dinosaur eggs with dinosaurs in them for them to erupt in the bath along with some volcano play. You can also do this fun activity in a Dinosaur sensory bin as well. We did the bath cause Jake asked if they could do a volcano/dinosaur bath.

Materials:

Baking soda

Hair conditioner( you can also just use a small amount of water to get it damp as well)

Instant coffee (dry)
Vinegar

Small dinosaurs

How to make dinosaur eggs:

Mix 2 cups baking soda, 1/4 cup of hair conditioner or 2 teaspoons of water, and 1/2 cup of dry instant coffee. Once it is all blended together then mold around the dinosaur like a rock. Place on a plate or tray and let them sit for 24 hours if you want them hard like rocks. The longer you let them sit the harder they are.

The dinosaur feet are cut out of craft foam.

Use vinegar to make the eggs and volcano erupt.
Volcano and erupting dinosaur eggs.....o what fun!!!

You can see after they played the water looked like swamp water. 

We haven't done a lot of messy baths cause the kids have sensitive skin, but they had a lot of fun with this bath.

While they were playing I read a couple of our favorite dinosaur books as well.

Be sure to check out our Glowing rocks as well.

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Easter egg number learning puzzle

We are working on number recognition and counting in order. So I put together this fun Easter egg puzzle bath. Very simple to do. You can buy the foam eggs from a local craft store or you can make them using foam sheets like I did.

All you need to do is write your number and dots on the egg and then cut it in half so the kids can match the pieces together.

You can also do this with alphabets like we did in our alphabet bath.

Fun way to add learning to the bath, center time or even a great busy bag.

Cate is learning number recognition, so Jake helped her out some. She is also working on colors so she would match the colors up to see if the puzzle fit. This is a great fine motor skill for little ones along with learning numbers or letters.

You can also check out our bathtime link for other fun bath time learning games and activities.

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Easter egg hunt bubble bath

The kids love themed baths during the holidays, cause I go all out. We took out our eggs from last year and I filled them with small toys around the house . Then I filled the tub with bubbles and colored them green like grass. Decorated around the tub with the window clings from Dollar Tree(they stick great to the tub and bath wall when wet)

Then had the kids come in and gave them their baskets and they hunted for eggs under the bubbles.

No joke we have done this bath 3 times now since I set it up last week. Jake is into it more then Cate, but they both loves doing it. 

Super fun and great memories to make with your little ones.

We did this in the bath tub, but you can do it in a sensory bin like we did our firework bubbles.

If you like to do fun and creative things for you kids at  bath time be sure to check out our other baths and our Pinterest bath board

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Homemade scented bath paints

We love bath time it is one of our favorite times together. We are always doing something fun and creative. While playing the other night I mixed some kool-aid in with the kids Johnson and Johnson's bath soap and it worked well for paint and colored bubble bath.

We use to paint with our shaving cream bath paints, but Cate has sensitive skin and so we had to stop using it. The bath soap and kool-aid worked great  cause it is for sensitive skin and it's also great cause it is tear free for their eyes.

Note: You can use the Target brand as well it works just like the Johnson and Johnson's baby bath.

We used our bath paints to paint Easter eggs. We also did a Peter Cotton Tail Bunny that we decorated like our Frosty the snowman bath we did at Christmas.

To do this bath all you need is craft foam and cut the shapes you need. Craft foam acts like stickers in the tub when it is wet. They stick to the wall and the bath.

The nice thing about these paints is that you can paint on craft foam over and over again and  it washes right off. So you can use the foam eggs for multiple fun baths. Jake even painted on the plastic eggs as well.

Then we sang the song in the bath while putting Peter Rabbit together.

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Make your own Alphabet bath soap or crayons

We love bath time and adding fun learning in as well so I thought it would be fun to make our own alphabet bath soaps. 

I was at Micheal's the other day going up and down the aisle when I saw a make your own soap section. Have to say never thought about doing that since I am funny with smells for the bath and the kids with sensitive skin. But they had clear glycerin soap blocks and with my 50% coupon was only $4.99, so I thought it would be worth a try for the kid.

Then I saw an alphabet soap mold for $2.00. So I came home and tried it and well it worked great and the kids thought it was the coolest thing for the tub.

Very simple to make.

Directions:

Follow what is on the soap block and I added food coloring to different batches. Place in the molds and you have soap after about 15 minutes. This was super easy to do and didn't make a mess at all.

Be sure to check out some of our other fun homemade recipes. 

Fake snow

Bath paints

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Shamrock rainbow alphabet learning bath

I love to watch the kids learn through play and so I put together a fun Alphabet matching and spelling learning game for bath.

This is a fun and simple bath and can also be used outside the bath as well. 

All you need is foam shamrocks and letters from the Dollar Tree. If you didn't know when craft foam is wet it works like a sticker on the tub or wall. We also used a spin chart I got in the Target dollar section for a little extra fun...spin the wheel and find the letter.

This game can also be used outside the bath, all you need is a dry erase board. If you take a squirt bottle and damp the foam it will stick to the dry erase board or even a chalk board.

I would spell a word and "J" had to find the letters and put them in order.

With toddlers you can have them find the letters and tell them what it is and then have them repeat after you. That is what we did with "C".

They really enjoyed this bath and is a great way to tie in learning.

If you like to get learning time in during bath time be sure to check out some of our other learning baths we have done.

Shape and colors learning bath

Alphabet puzzle learning

Fall number learning tree

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A,B,C painting in the bath

C is really loving to paint, so I thought it would be fun to paint in the bath. I did it in the bath cause she is my mess child and loves to paint more than the paper.

 I filled the paint tray with WASHABLE tempera paints gave them brushed and they had fun.

Then I added the foam alphabet stamps to the mix and had them do letters. My son knows the alphabets so we worked on words.

Then they had some fun and did body painting.

 

 

 

 

Materials:

I placed poster board paper 2 sheets on wall with duct tape for them the paint on.

Paint brushes

Washable paint

Foam alphabet stamps

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