Bath Toy Colours

from 12 months · 5-10 min · Sensory

What you need

Float two or three bath toys in different colours. Anything that fits through a toilet roll tube is too small.
Name each one as it bobs past: 'yellow duck', 'blue boat'.
Ask for one by colour and cheer whichever one they pass you.
Cover one with your hand and ask 'where's the yellow one?'

Bath time is already slow and close, which leaves room for a few colour words without adding anything new.

Colour words: Each toy gets a colour and a name, said together, again and again.
Following a request: Handing over 'the blue one' is listening and acting on what they heard.
Grasping in water: Catching a floating toy is trickier than it looks and good hand work.

Notice them looking at the right toy when you say a colour, even before they reach for it.

Stay within arm's reach the whole time and keep the water shallow.

Easier: just name the colours as they play, with no asking

Harder: line the toys up on the edge of the bath and ask for one colour at a time