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Sensory bath – kitchen fun in the tub!
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Found this new blog the other day, Growing A Jeweled Rose, a mom of 2 adorable little girls showing us a bunch of different fun activities. One activity stuck to my mind: Sensory bath! Nico has been against baths for about the last year or so, only wanting to take showers, but lately he’s been wanting to take baths, so I thought this would be great for him! I was trying to think what kinda theme we could do for him and I turned only to see his play kitchen and bingo! A cooking in the tub sensory bath! So the next day I asked him if he wanted to take a special bath, of course he said yes, so I had him wait outside of the bathroom while I prepared it all. I had grabbed a few of his kitchen things, spatula, 2 measuring cups, plastic burger making ingredients, pea stack, muffin silicone cups, a corn on the cob, an empty dish soap bottle (filled with yellow water), a little whisk, strainer, funnel, little pink container with lid, a little plastic bowl…
When he saw the water and the kitchen stuff in there he oooh(ed)! He kept saying “l’eau bleu” (blue water in french) with a big smile.
I put the water blue, I figured with the yellow in the dish soap bottle it would get green. I guess we didn’t have enough cause the water stayed blue with a hue of green.
Making the burger was difficult, the plastic was all slippery.
He also managed to flip the burger bun once but he couldn’t do it again even though he tried his hardest.
He wanted us to add bubbles. He washed a few things with his “soap” bottle and washcloth.
He made water cupcakes.
Funnel fun.
He tasted the water and liked it, mmmm bon! (good in french)
He didn’t want to get out, he whisked the little bit of water that was left, lol. He had lots of fun!
The next morning he asked for a bath with blue water again, we told him no, we can do one tonight. He asked about 20 times during the day until it was evening and he finally got his blue bath again. He loves his colored cooking bath and wants one everyday, at this rate I’ll need to get food coloring in bulk! LOL
Disclaimer: I know some people don’t agree with me putting those photos up and say he’ll be embarrassed later. I ask you embarrassed of what? Doesn’t every kid take baths? Isn’t it great that he had fun in it? I don’t think he should be ashamed of it,I think he should feel lucky his parents cared enough to make it fun for him and maybe others thanks to this post 
If you do this, we’d LOVE to see a photo of it. Email it to us or post it on our Facebook page. We’d love to do a Facebook album, a Pinterest board and a page of your creations
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Written by Valérie
Valerie is the creative mind behind "Glittering Muffins", stay-at-home mom of Nico, a little dynamo that is bursting with energy. He also is the inspiration behind the blog (and the name) with his keen interest in cooking, baking and, well, glitter. Valerie constantly is thinking about twists to the traditional arts, crafts and recipes to make them her own and is inspiring others while doing so. Outside of the blogging world, her main activity is Nico, with the occasional TV show (non-toddler related) and casual game here and there.
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What a cutie drinking that colorful water! Thanks for the post and photos.
Thanks MaryAnn, glad you like it. He loves colors, yoyange (orange) and bleu (blue in french) are his favorite
Aw, I love it! I love the spin you put on the bath idea to make it your own, and Nico looks like he had SO much fun!!!! ( just a tip for color changing fun next time, you need to make the “potion” very color rich… I mean use the whole bottle of food coloring next time
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Thanks Crystal! Not sure what spin you mean but glad you liked it. He did have LOTS of fun, it pushed bed time by an hour that night, now we do them earlier lol. Thanks for the “potion” tip
Aaah so much fun! Isn’t the bath the best place to explore?!
Thank you for sharing on Kids Get Crafty!
Maggy
Hi Maggy,
YAY! Your comment didn’t go into the spam folder! Yes he loves it and water makes everything slippery so even more fun for us too look at, lol. Thanks for letting us share once again
Thanks for linking up your fun sensory bath at Share at the Zoo. Such a fun idea to do during bath time.
Thanks for letting us share
He does love it and there is no more battle to take a bath.
I’ll have to give this a try tonight. I found you through the blog hop. I’m following via facebook. Stop by http://www.thenymelrosefamily.blogspot.com for a bloglovin blog hop tomorrow. The instructions on how to add bloglovin’ are posted today. Thanks for posting!
We’d love to see your results, you can share on our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/glitteringmuffins
Sensory baths are such fun, we put all sorts of things in ours. I love the idea of a kitchen bath. Fantastic idea
Thanks, he loves cooking so it seemed like a good fit
This is so simple, and I know my kids would love it. Thanks for the idea. Jodi @ http://www.meaningfulmama.com
You’re welcome, would love to see your results, you can post photos on our facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/glitteringmuffins)
Thanks Jodi , hope your kids have fun and feel free to share on our facebook page
Oh, so much fun!! Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday! I hope you will share with us again this week!
What a fun idea. Love this!
Thanks so much for stopping by Blissful and Domestics Blog Hop. I am of course following your cute blog now and am so excited to meet new Bloggy friends. I hope you will come back this week and link up again:>
http://www.blissfulanddomesti8c.blogspot.com
Just wanted to let you know I featured you today. We tried this a bit this week and loved it so I posted on it at http://craftymomsshare.blogspot.com/2012/03/bath-time-tea-party-and-easter-egg-fun.html. Thank you again for sharing at Sharing Saturday!!
Great post- Alex and Valerie- We haven’t done any sensory baths yet- But, we’ll have to fix that.
Thanks, he really loved it, it’s been bath everyday (He’d want to do it twice a day but we said no) since then!
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