Share your tips for a fun bathtime with TOMY

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From bubble bath beards to rubber ducks, bathtime for your children can be a source of laughter, excitement, and silliness even if you sometimes dread them. Persuading your child that it’s time for a bath can be infinitely easier when you have a trick up your sleeve that makes them playful and appealing. With this in mind, TOMY want to hear from you the ways your make bathtime fun for your children.

Here’s what TOMY have to say:
“Bath time is a key bonding moment for parent and child and bath toys are important during this time for exposing babies to new sensations and keeping them occupied and entertained. Knowing this, TOMY Toomies’ Mumsnet rated bath toys are designed to delight children and adults alike, featuring great water play elements, bright colours and characters, as well as classic developmental play features; championing that memories are made when laughter is shared.”

How do you make bathtime something to look forward to in your house? Do you have go-to bath toys that are a guaranteed hit with your children? Or perhaps bubble bath is enough to entertain them? Was there something that made bathtime fun when you were a child that you want to recreate for your own children? Which part (if at all) of bathtime do your children enjoy the most - the bubble bath, the toys, being in the water, or something else entirely?

Share the ways you make bathtimes for your child fun on the thread below to be entered into a prize draw where 3 x MNers will be entered into a prize draw to win a £100 voucher of their choice (from a list).

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My daughter doesn’t like bubble baths, she prefers them “plain”. She loves bath bombs, soap confetti and crystals. She also likes the glow in the dark tubes that you crack to activate, it makes bathtime quiet magical

Waterproof dinosaurs, ducks and balls all get thrown about and chewed. Pouring water from a jug is also popular (and drinking it). He didn't used to like baths until I realised he liked them only on the warmest end of the expected baby bath temperature.

Toys and bubbles and then more toys and bubbles, we both have fun at bath time!

old margarine tubs etc with different holes, and some child friendly music in the background

The most useful thing for us was teaching him to lie back like he's swimming when we wash his hair, and using the stacking cups that have water running out to make fun like a shower!
Also bath crayons!! All the crayons, our tiles regularly look like an art studio 😂😂

lots of bubble bath, bath toys and plastic cups and spoons so they can pretend the bubbles are ice cream!

Our Oscar likes to practise his swimming at bathtime! We also encourage splashing around - everything gets soaked, but it means he's less likely to be terrified of water, which has to be a good thing!

Lots of bubbles, fun toys and a towel close by for eyes.

Lots of bubbles and then more bubbles!

bath crayons, bubbles, frothy shampoo, lots of ducks.

Bubble bath for various fun hair styles and beards is a must, and toys that squirt water. The aim of bath time seems to be to get as much of the water out of the bath as possible!

My kids like any tiny bottles that we have left over from bubble baths and stuff and they just pour them in and out of bigger bottles!

Plenty of toys and no irritation wash, shampoo and conditioner

Mild shampoo that won't sting their eyes, lots of bubble bath and some fun toys.

My granddaughter loves playing with different toys in the bath. Sometimes ducks, sometimes crazy soap, sometimes bubbles, balls, buckets etc.

Dont wIt until they are too tired! Also, bubble beards are always a huge hit with my dd

My children like playing with empty bottles and putting their toys in the bath with them, not much encouragement needed to have a bath, thankfully - yet, anyway...

lots of toys and encouragement, get them laughing and make it as fun as possible.

It's all about the bubbles

We throw different toys in each time or even items from the kitchen. Sometimes its spoons and a sieve, other times its plastic animals. The one thing we can't put in is cups or pans as these get used to bale the water onto the floor. Lots of fun but not so much fun for us parents when water drips into the room downstairs.

Whatever we do bath times always end up getting a bit silly and no one ever wants to come out but they are good fun too.

I use colour changing bubble bath in my kids baths and bath crayons makes bath time fun

recently we have been playing music during bath time

My DC would love having bubbles and bath pens at his bath times! He would draw all over the bath for aaages!

Favourite bathtime activity for the last few weeks has been 'alphabet soup'. Using the foam letters and numbers, if DS4 can name them first time, they get chucked into the bath.

Also have great fun doing handprints and drawing pictures in the steam on the shower screen.

For extra fun/mild peril, we put 7 month old DD in there in her bath seat too.

We found that stacking cups with holes in the bottom, a watering can, and one of those rainmaker toys (one designed for water) and those plastic bath books were favourites. Empty bottles can be great too. Some bath toys are difficult to empty - the squeezy animals seem great, but invariably get mouldy inside, even when they're cleaned with bleach.
One of the great things about bathtime is if it's not rushed. Everything's ready, towels and pyjamas are warming nicely while the little one is in the bath.