10 Best Toys to Make Bathtime Fun for Your Toddler

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If your little one gets excited over anything that spins or makes a little noise they will love these floating bubbles. These bath bubbles all come with a unique character inside, spin, and are perfect for your toddlers to grab with their little hands.

Educational Value

These floating bubbles are perfect to help teach your child how to grasp, reach and shake giving them that boost of learning that hand-eye coordination skill.

Entertainment Value

These bath toys are perfect for teaching your child hand-eye coordination. Not only will they make bath time a little bit more fun for your busy toddler, but they’ll get excited over each bubble spinning and rattling along while they splash throughout their bath time. These bubbles also move and float on their own which will also help your baby’s movement when trying to reach for whatever bubble creature their heart desires.

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These munchkin float toys float in any type of water. This is a great way for your child to learn sensory play as well. Having a different style of play enhances your child's ability to feel and learn about textures. These munchkin float toys can even be pushed or used outside of the water as learning to crawl toys also.

Safety

Composed of a BPA free plastic, these boats are highly durable and are built to survive countless bath time adventures. With the boats being BPA free you can take comfort knowing that your child will be safe if these toys end up in their mouth.

Educational Value

Each boat is designed with a number. Increase your child’s counting and number recognition by developing games around the number. For instance, have your link the odd numbers together or have them link the boats together in order. Each boat is made of soft rounded edges, thus eliminating the risk of your child being hurt by sharp objects.

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Children eighteen months and up can enjoy the 3 Bees & Me Magnet Boat Set. This set includes four different colored boats. Each boat has the ability to float and is designed with a magnet that allows it to connect to the others. Whether your child links the boats together or plays with them individually, their imagination will be busy at work.

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Great for teaching your child about things that sink and things that float. These boats come in a set of four and are great if you're taking your child to the park where there is a pond, river, beach, pool or for bathtub. They are easy to store and travel with as well.

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Included with the rescue boat is a helicopter, so they’ll have the best of both worlds -- Both in the water and in the air. Your toddler will love performing specialized rescue missions while his or her boat dodges huge bubble walls and awaits the helicopter to swoop in and aid with the rescue.

Educational Value

This toy encourages imaginative play by taking a toy that could be played with outside the bath and making it waterproof. The addition of a fairly detailed, realistic-looking helicopter and two shipmates make this toy a home run for toddlers who don’t like taking baths.

Entertainment Value

Every toddler is fascinated by toys that are able to float in the bath; it’s what makes bath time fun! This cute little rescue boat comes with two passengers that also float along with their ship and will give your child a great base for imaginative play. A big allure of taking baths for toddlers is the fact that they get to play with their water-based toys and this one does double-duty in that department.

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Another boat for our top ten list this toy comes with accessories and a helicopter. Your child will be able to play with this boat in or out of the tub. It’s also dishwasher safe so that if needed parents can clean this toy easily.

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The submarine is attached to suction on the floor of the bathtub and draws water to the hand spray. Your toddler can use this to fill the water circulation system and see a wonderful chain reaction of nothing less than magical effects.

Educational Value

This vibrantly colored bath toy has been specially designed for small hands to hold and grip. The Submarine Spray Station Bath Toy by Yookidoo provides kids with many different ways to play and learn all at once. Kids will enjoy using the spray gun as they work on hand-eye coordination and develop fine motor skills. Furthermore, this Spray Station bath toy helps in visual and tactile sensory stimulation with its bold colors and moving parts. Kids can learn about simple physics when playing with this toy as teaches kids about action and reaction.

Entertainment Value

Composed of 3 main components – the yellow submarine, a hand shower, and a bathtub-attached water circulation pumping system – the Submarine Spray Station Bath Toy from Yookidoo is one fantastic way to stimulate your toddler’s understanding of cause-and-effect systems and help develop his or her fine motor and hand-eye coordination skills.

Compatibility

This spray submarine set will help keep your child occupied during bath time. Not only is it compatible with the tub but it can be used as a shower as well. This is a great tool for parents to use for older children who might be ready from that transition period of bathtubs to showering.

Safety

This toy is easy to use for toddlers and safe to be in the back and your child is going to love watching him swim back and forth between bubbles. It doesn’t have any small pieces or requires any effort at all which makes it well worth the price -- Which is well under ten bucks!

Educational Value

As silly as it may sound, this little swimming penguin serves as good motivation for your little one. His arms move in a realistic way to push him to swim through the water and it’s a great way to show your kids the basics of swimming without exposing them to anything scary.

Entertainment Value

This penguin is probably the cutest thing we’ve ever seen as far as toys go. It’s so simple in concept but such a fun idea to make the time spent in the bath fly by. This tiny little blue penguin actually has the capability to swim and by simply winding him up, your child will be set for unlimited entertainment while taking a soak.

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This cute little penguin is the perfect water companion. Your little one will be able to splash around and take this little guy out on all of their water adventures. Great for swimming underwater and enhancing your child's creativity and imagination skills through pretend play.

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All of the squirt toys are designed with bright colors to stimulate your child’s sensory skills and get them excited to play. No matter which set you choose, your child will have a blast making their favorite Disney characters squirt water.

Educational Value

All of the toys are designed to fit perfectly into tiny hands. They’re lightweight so your little one will have no problem grasping them. Their fine motor skills will increase as they grasp the toys and make them squirt out water. This set of bath toys encourages your toddler to use their imagination as they engage in pretend play with the Disney characters.

Entertainment Value

With the Disney Squirt toys, your little one may never want to leave the bath. When purchasing you can choose between three different Disney themed squirt toy sets. Each set includes three squirt toys. The Finding Nemo themed set includes a Dori, Nemo, and Squirt character. With the Mickey set you will receive a Pluto, Mickey, and beach ball squirt toy. The little mermaid set includes Sebastian, Flounder, and Ariel.

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These Finding Nemo critters are perfect little squirt guns for your child to enjoy with during some water play. They are great to travel with on the go, take to the park or enjoy outside time as well. If you have an infant, they are also a perfect teething toy for them as well.

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The fish themselves are airtight spheres so that no wonder can get inside, potentially causing mildew or mold further down the line. All of the components of this set are easy to clean and safe for kids, and especially fun for toddlers and will improve various skills.

Educational Value

This bath time toy is helpful to improve hand-eye coordination amongst toddlers because as they search for cute bobbing “fish”, they’ll also be making the connection between mental and physical ability in order to catch them. This will also improve their visual learning skill as they scan the bath for the easiest catch.

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How cool is this kid-proof fishing toy? It’s absolutely perfect for the bath because kids will already be in the water when they use it! The Munchkin Fishin’ Bath Toy works solely on the basis of magnets and makes “going fishing” super easy with a strongly magnetized hood and baby fish. The tiny fish characters bob slightly underneath the water so as to not make it too difficult for children to catch, all while looking adorable and enticing.

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A great way to teach your child how to fish is with this pretend play fishing pole. This will not only keep your child occupied during bath time but it’s also a great outside activity for your little one to enjoy as well. All parents will need is a pool to through these little critters in and your child will be practicing how to fish in no time.

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Toddlers will have a great time as they learn all about cause and effect, as well as color recognition with these non-toxic BPA free water tubes. Clean up is almost effortless with these colorful bath pipes as they are hollow inside.

Educational Value

Who would have ever thought that playing with water pipes can be so much fun? The 5-piece Water Pipes Bath Toy from Boon Pipes can help stimulate your toddler’s curiosity and problem-solving skills. He or she can stack one pipe over the other to see its effects on water flow. Or, your toddler can opt to use them individually and see how each pipe will create a different water flow. Each pipe comes with a mechanical element to help create a water effect.

Entertainment Value

This five-piece set comes in five different colors, clear, blue, pink, yellow and orange. Each of the pipes are translucent so that your toddler can enjoy watching the bath water flow through them. The Building Bath Pipes Toy Set by Boon each come with suction to easily adhere to your bathtub or tiled wall

Compatibility

Playing with pipes is a great way to show your child how water flows. This set comes with five different ways so that your child will be able to learn about cause and effect. It is great for all ages but recommended for children ages 12months and up.

Safety

The letters and numbers are made of eco-friendly and non-toxic materials. The 36-piece set is sold together with a toy organizer.

Educational Value

This 36-piece bath toys from Freddie and Sebbie is a great way to learn the alphabet and numbers while enjoying bathtime. Your toddler can brush up on his or her vocabulary by spelling words that your toddlers are familiar with. Your toddler can also create letter combinations to form words as well as help master the recognition of a different number.

Entertainment Value

This set is great for teaching your toddler the alphabet, numbers, and colors making it one of the most perfect toys to get them ready for preschool or kindergarten. These letters and numbers are incredibly strong as they are handmade with very durable quality. In addition to that, this 36 Piece Bath Letters and Numbers with Toy Organizer by Freddie and Sebbie are eco-friendly as they are made from non-toxic materials. Measuring 2.1” x 2.9”, these letters and numbers are easy for small hands to hold and grasp.

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These letters and numbers will stick on to any tub. This is also a great way for your children to learn how to spell and count. These letters come with a carrying case so if you happen to be traveling this will be easy to take on the go with.

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Kids will love watching the water drain out through the various slots in the cups while figuring out which ones to stack and what fits where. Each cup has a corresponding color and will teach kids about various shapes, sizes, and the basic geometry of fitting like-things together.

Educational Value

These stacking cups are eye-catching as well as educational which makes them the perfect critical-thinking gift for your child to play with inside the bath. Each cup is created to look like some kind of cute monster and they can all be interlocked together, teaching your child about shapes and colors in the process.

Entertainment Value

Stacking cups are almost every child’s first bath time toy, whether they were actual cups or simply just containers that fit into one another. These stacking cups are such a modern-day version and will keep your little one entertained for quite some time. Toddlers love to be interactive and play with things that can keep them busy, and stacking cups is one of those toys.

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Perfect for teaching little ones how to stack cups these stacking cups will keep your little one occupied in or out of the tub. They are bright and colorful and perfect for tiny hands. Your child will be entertained for hours with these stacking cups. Great for all ages and any occasion.