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Sometimes, kids love hopping into the tub. Other times, they'd rather do anything else.
And when you need to get two toddlers excited about bath time at the same time, it can be tricky.
When you run into those tricky times, there's a quick and easy way to get your twins on board with bath time.
Ask them what color they want the water to be, and watch them jump up and head toward the tub while they scream out different colors.
Ever since we tried out Crayola's Bath Dropz, our kids can't get into the tub fast enough because it turns bath time into art time and gives a whole new meaning to drawing a bath.
Bath Dropz are fragrance-free, water-coloring tablets made with sodium bicarbonate (baking soda). When they're dropped into water, they fizz up and change the color of the water as they dissolve.
3 reasons our twins love Bath Dropz tablets
- They get to pick what color they want the water to be.
- They each get to throw one in.
- They get to watch it fizz in the water as it dissolves and changes the bathwater.
Combine bath time and art time
As parents, we want to help our kids learn all there is to know, so we're always looking for opportunities to teach them something new.
Using these color-changing drops gives you a chance to teach your toddlers about colors. Not only can they practice color recognition when they pick and choose which colors to use to tint the water, they can learn about mixing and matching individual colors to create other ones that aren't seen in tablet form.
They can mix a red drop with a yellow one to create orange; red and blue to make purple; yellow and blue to get blue, etc.
Safe for sensitive skin
The tinting tablets are gentle on our twins' skin, which is prone to irritation and eczema from being born prematurely.
These tablets make bathtime fun without bothering their delicate skin (but beware, there's always the slight chance they could cause an allergic reaction in some children, so just keep an eye if you're introducing these to your kids for the first time).
If you want to be extra careful to avoid any potential irritation, you can give your kids a quick rinse with fresh bathwater before drying them off after tubtime, but we haven't run into any issues on our end.
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Color Bath Dropz by Crayola, 60 Tablets
Get Them Excited About the Bath
These are Crayola's Color Bath Dropz. This container has 60 water-coloring tablets that tint the water color as they dissolve. The fragrance-free drops are made with sodium bicarbonate.
Always use with supervision
Make sure to store these tablets out of your children's reach and don't leave them unattended with the container, even if you just run to grab a towel—because, as you probably already know, twins can act incredibly quickly when they see their moment and work together to seize the day.
If given the opportunity while unsupervised, they might try to use a tablet on their own, and if their hands are wet, they could transfer the color to their hands or their clothes. Plus, the color is concentrated before it dissolves and could potentially stain porous surfaces (like unsealed grout). The Dropz are meant to be diluted in lots of water, so they don't stain whatever they're coming into contact with.
More importantly, you always want to watch your toddlers when the tablets are around because they might decide to pop one in their mouth, since they sort of look like candy. They are generally safe if ingested by accident, but they can be dangerous in large quantities because of their sodium content. If swallowed, they can cause stomach pain, drowsiness, nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea.
To make sure our twins are never alone with the tablets, we just made coloring the water a part of our bath time routine. We all grab their towels, ditch their clothes, get the water running, and then pick what color they each get to throw into the tub.
Encourage creativity
Tinted water in the tub also gives your toddlers a chance to let their imagination run wild while they're in the bath.
Our twins have pretended that red water is a lava pool they need to navigate.
Green water is the forest and they're going on a bear hunt.
Purple water usually turns the tub into a bakery where they make birthday cake and practice singing Happy Birthday, offer me a cake they've baked in the bathtub, and then grab it away and pretend to speedily scarf it down before I can take my piece.
They think it's hilarious.
But the really funny part is that they think it's their idea to spend so much time in the tub having good, clean fun.
I'll let them continue to think that as long as possible.
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