Bath Toy Suggestions for Toddler

TUB PAINTS and CRAYONS!!! They are soap and paint in one make a huge mess that simply washed down the drain. Find them in any store. They can color on themselves, walls, tiles, tub and it washes off!!!

Color crayons, and the fizzy bath tablets. Also, you could periodically get one of those washcloths that is dried into a shape and then when you wet it, it expands into a washcloth with some sort of print on it. My kids always liked those.

What about a straw?

Ooohh.. one of my son's absolute FAVORITES when he was a toddler was the little medicine dispenser syringes! Cleaned it out, and he'd suck up the water in it and shoot it out. Over and over and over and over.
Anyone who says boys don't make guns out of stuff unless they've seen it or played with them...... LOL... uhh.. no.
He'd suck up the water, and say something like "get waaaaateeeeer..." (then he'd pick it up and 'aim') and say "nooow SHOOT!" and he'd squirt it. And just laugh and laugh and laugh. So cute.
I can still hear his little boy voice yelling "noooooow SHOOT".
He's 13. :/

squirty dinosaurs
paddling duck (Potter Barn has them but I got them from friends)
bath "shaving cream" w/fake shaver (kid's toys)
paddle boats
bubbles
little squirter toys (I tell him just keep in tub area: shoot wall of shower)
bath/washable drawing pens
paddle boat
magnetic stick boats (they stick to each other)
bath fizzy tablets
floating water plane

we play quick games, sing, float toys, we talk, have fun

Sometimes I will give him a shower to mix it up.
Or....a quick stand & we don't use the shower head but I soap him up & rinse him off w/cups of warm water. I think he just gets bored & likes change.

I put a few drops of food coloring to change the color and glow sticks and dim the lights. We also have tons of random plastic toys and foam soap.

I agree shower time might be best. Leave baths for on the weekend and shower the rest of the week.

Sounds like it's time for the shower!
A good spray with a bit of soap is really all they need.
I mean, as long as they get hosed down once a day, right? lol!

My grandchildren like the crayons and other things that make colors. Also, at my house there are not any real, from-the-store bathtub toys, so we go to the kitchen cupboard where the plastic (safe) containers are kept, and the bathing beauty can pick out what he or she pleases to play in the tub with. For some reason, getting to pick things out makes ordinary food storage containers highly attractive.

My DD loves drawing in the bathtub with dry-erase crayons. (Much cheaper than bathtub paints...)

I have a tugboat my daughter loves to death, a bubble wand that makes more than just regular bubbles, some soap crayons, multicolored sponge letters and numbers, and some colored funnels that she likes to fill bottles with.

what about those soap crayons? He can color on the tub while you get him washed. Or the foaming soaps.

Hi. i offer my son to bring in any plastic toy he wants each time. also...tupperware, measuring spoons, funnels from nursing pumps :), old bottles....watering can bought for the beach....

hope this helps. jilly

Hmm. You don't mention how old your son is....
If he's now hating the bath have him take a shower.
Now you have a tool.
"Do you want a shower or a bath?" He will probably opt for bath and make your life easier :) However shower can make things go faster.
Do they still make silly soap? It was in a can like silly string. My kids loved that stuff.

"force fields" (freeze little toy into homemade popsicle makers) - guarantee he'll stay in for as long as it takes for the ice to melt in his warm bath (if the guys are too big to fit into the molds, just freeze their feet or hands into them - he'll love it)

"rainbow bath" use the popsicle molds to with water and drops of food coloring - even do this with him one morning, to teach how colors mixed together make other colors; as the colors melt in the warm bath, more colors, swirls etc are discovered (no, it doesn't leave streaks on the tub or the kid - as long you use just a few drops of color per mold)

nontraditional bath toys are a huge hit at our house - their favorite "guys" from Lego, PlayMobile or Imaginext; the detailed plastic animal figurines you can find at most toy stores; plastic dinosaurs

playing with him - make the duck do Olympic dives off the side of the tub, into the bubbles, and see if the plastic hippo can jump higher or make a bigger splash etc...or just line up some characters of some sort and one by one "oops!" push them/they "slipped" into the bath...for some reason both my kids thought this was hysterical at that age (especially when saying the Humpty Dumpty song)

a magnetic fish rod set with a few magnetic fish

we have a gravity/water/spinning set that suctions to the wall of the tub and you pour water into the top one and it makes its way down to through various water wheels etc before emptying back into the bath - it was a hit for a while, but the novelty wore off and it has become a toy a bring out every once in a while, rather than a regular

I hope these help - happy bubble time!