Daily Routine Explorations with Your Young Child: Bath Time for Toddlers

Daily Routine Explorations with Your Young Child: Bath Time for Toddlers

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Description

Bath time is full of fun STEM learning opportunities for toddlers. Like making predictions and conducting experiments with everyday household objects (e.g., plastic cups).

Environment

To help position your child for bath time, place your child in a plastic basket or baby bathtub

Materials

  • Put household objects and/or toys into a basket/container within reach of your child
  • Offer high contrast household objects and/or toys for better visual discrimination

Instruction

  • Provide hand-over-hand support to help your child explore the water better
  • Narrate/sign your child’s actions as they experiment with the water and objects in the water

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