Sensory12 mo–2 yrsAt home

Bath cups

Bath time you don't have to rush.

Prep

2 min

Mess

High

How to play

Fill, pour, tip over his own hands, pour from high and from low. Show him once and then let him take it wherever he wants.

  1. three cups standing in the bath water
    1

    Two or three plastic cups in the bath.

  2. a cup pouring water from high above the bath
    2

    Pour from up high and listen.

  3. a cup pouring from just above the water
    3

    Then from right down low. Different sound.

What you need

Two or three plastic cups in the bath.

What it secretly builds

Sensory

Water teaches physics with instant feedback — tip too far and it's gone. He's calibrating how much force to use, over and over.

Safety first
Never out of arm's reach in the bath. Not for a second.
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