How to Make Your Own Bathtub Toys – Thrifty Fun

If you are looking for entertaining bath toys for your kids, look no further than your own home. You can make inexpensive bathtub toys easily from everyday objects. Here are some ideas.

1. Sailboats

Here’s another way to make use of those plastic water and soda bottles that seem to be everywhere these days. To make a sailboat, here is what you will need:

• Empty plastic water bottle
• Rectangular sponge
• Rubber band
• Scissors
• Drinking straw
• Craft foam or cloth
• Glue

Using the rubber band, attach the sponge to the outside of the bottle. When the bottle is laid on its side in the water, the sponge will absorb enough water to stabilize the boat and keep it from rolling over and over. On the side of the bottle opposite the sponge, poke a hole with scissors. Insert the drinking straw. Then, cut the craft foam or cloth into a triangle. Fold one edge of it around the straw and glue.

2. Funnels

Funnels of all shapes and sizes make wonderful bath toys as they are. Raid your kitchen cabinets.

3. Colanders

Let your kids play with the kitchen colander in the bath. Little ones love to see the water run through the holes.

4. Medicine droppers

Kids love to play with these. They look like syringes without needles. Squirting water out of them is a lot of fun. The same is true for bulb-shaped nasal aspirators. Make sure it’s clean, and then let your child suck up and squirt water in and out of the bulb syringe.

5. Measuring cups and spoons

These are always popular with kids, especially babies and toddlers. Held together by a ring, measuring spoons can be played with in the tub. So can measuring cups.

6. Plastic dish soap bottles

Your dishwashing liquid bottle can make a great tub toy when it’s empty. It’s big and easy to squeeze – fill it with bath water and let your kids squirt away.

7. Empty bottles

Big two-liter bottles or smaller ones can be used as is. Kids love to watch the water chug and glug as they pour it out.

8. Ice cube trays

Pour “water fountains” up out of the small square compartments of ice cube trays. And the trays are just fun to play with in the tub.

9. Plastic containers

Margarine, whipped topping, yogurt, and other foods come in wonderfully reusable containers of various sizes. Save them and use them in the bath tub.

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