Bath time
Singing
Bath time is the perfect singing time! Ideas for songs are:
- Down in the jungle (it's about animals washing their clothes)
- Five little ducks went swimming one day (Try using some rubber ducks as props if you have them)
- Five little speckled frogs
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 once I caught a fish alive
- Miss out some words and see if your child can put them in or try singing the wrong words sometimes
- To listen to nursery rhymes online, visit the Words for Life website
Learning doing words
- Bath time words such as splashing, pouring, washing, blowing, floating, sinking
- Say them as you demonstrate the action and repeat them over and over
- Comment on what your child is doing - 'you're splashing in the water, splash, splash, splash!'
Bath activities
- Learn body parts
- Use containers and bath toys, how do they fit together?
- Explore how you can pour water from them
- Create some anticipation by making toys fall into the bath - pause before you push them and accompany this with lots of sounds
- Older children can use bath toys to play imaginatively
- Play ready, steady, go games - pause before you say 'go' and wait for your child to look at you before you say it, or let them say it
- Play with the bubbles in the bath
- Pop the bubbles and repeat 'pop-pop-pop'
- Talk about if the bubbles are big or small and where they are
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