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Children can experiment with different colors and have fun watching them melt in the bathtub with colored ice cubes. This is really an easy and fun idea for a bath for kids. What is nice about this too is that the mess is contained and just goes right down the drain!
For this activity you will need
-Ice cube tray
-Food coloring
This activity
-Helps explore children’s natural curiosity (What will happen to this ice when it is put into warm water?)
-Helps explore color and color mixing (What color will the water turn when I put a red and yellow ice cube in?)
-Teaches various states of matter such as solids and liquids.
-Teaches concepts such as hot and cold
Fill up the ice cube tray with water, add whatever colors you would like to each opening and allow to freeze completely
Then fill bath as normal
Let your child experiment and explore!
Use the opportunity to help build their vocabulary by explaining what is happening and what colors are being produced.
This was a fun bath and what is so nice is that the mess just goes right down the drain! I used this bath for fun and not in place of her normal bath time.
TIP- I used dark colored towels to dry my daughter off afterwards, if you have light colored towels you may want to rinse your child off first just to be safe.
-The water did not stain my tub at all and just rinsed down the drain.
WARNING: This is supposed to be a supervised activity. Never leave your child alone with water or ice cubes.
Great idea – but did the colours get on the towels after they had melted and gone down the drain? More work for Mum in that case!!
So, what’s new about that?
The colors went right down the drain and did not stain the bath tub at all. There was a a few colored splashes on the side of the tub, so I just ran the shower and they were gone! As for the towels, I have dark towels but that is a good point. If you have white towels then I would just suggest rinsing off your child before using the towel.I would not want people ruining their towels!
I will add this as a tip to the post.
Love your blog! Just followed you in a bunch of places. You are doing so many wonderful activities with Isabella. I couldn’t resist sharing this one on the Mess For Less facebook page. Vicky from http://www.messforless.net
Thank you! I appreciate it!! I just followed you back
We need to try this. My son would love it! Thanks for sharing at the Sunday Showcase!
Thank you!
Can’t wait to try this with my baby. Looks like great fun.
I hope you guys have fun!
Making bath time should be fun for toddlers..here is the list of 10 bath time things for toddlers http://bitly.com/bundles/atzerocost/4
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