Soap Games for Kids
Getting kids excited about bath time can be a challenge. One of the best ways to add variety to tub time and get kids involved in their own hygiene is through games. There are games which can be played with soap to ease bath-time worries and to help your kids learn about being clean.
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Bath Buddies
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Letting kids make their own soap to use during bath time is one way to give them ownership over their hygiene habits. Using soap flakes, such as Ivory Snow, mix about 1-1/2 cups of flakes with 3/4 cup water. This will be the base of your soap bar. Add food coloring of your choice and mix until the soap reaches a color your happy with. When correctly mixed, the soap should resemble play dough. When it reaches this stage you can shape it. Allow the child to hand-shape the soap, make small bricks of the soap and to use cookie cutters to create shapes, or allow them to press the soap into candy molds with fun shapes such as cars, animals, snowmen etc. Use vegetable oil on your hands and pan spray on molds to keep the soap from sticking.
If you want your bath buddy on a rope, take a piece of yarn and tie it into a loop. Press the knot that joined the loop into the center of the soap with a skewer stick or toothpick, then press the soap tightly back around the string at the top. Let your bath buddy dry for about 24 hours before it goes to the tub to play. Animal-shaped soaps can be used together to create a bath time farm or circus. Car soaps can race across tub walls.
"Bubble" Bath
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Tell kids you're going to have a bubble bath. To make special bubble wands, take a few wire hangers and have kids help bend them into fun shapes such as stars, squares, hearts, circles, etc. If you have a more restricted space or want smaller bubble wands, try using pipe cleaners to create these shapes. Using baby bath wash, bubble bath or kid-safe shampoos, fill a small tray (ice cream bucket lids or butter tub lids work great) with a liquid soap and water blend. Dip the bubble wands you created into the tray and have fun.
You can also teach children to use their fingers as bubble wands. It is a good idea to partially shut the shower curtain and have them blow bubbles into the area that is completely closed off.
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Soap Crayons
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Mix soap flakes and water just like you would for bath buddies, two parts soap to one part water. Work soap into a play-dough consistency and separate into enough balls that you have one for each color of crayon you want to create. Add food coloring to each ball until it reaches the color you desire. Press the soap into a greased candy mold or ice tray (the pop bottle ice trays will work best because they will make round sticks of soap). Allow soap to dry for 24 to 48 hours before use. These can be used to make bathroom art or to practice writing letters and numbers. Try writing letters on the wall with the soap and having the child shoot at the letters with a water gun according to your clue, for example, "What letter does the word 'cowboy' start with?"
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