Teaching Imitation During Bathtime

· Model working shampoo into your hair.

· Model washing a body part, or you and your child could wash two body parts simultaneously. (e.g., You wash one of their legs while they wash the other.)

· Model bath toy play, including scooping and pouring water, blowing bubbles, washing toys with a cloth, sponge, or watering can, pretending to have boats, toy fish, or dolls swim under or on the water, etc.

· Draw lines or shapes on the tub wall using bath crayons or paints.

· Make small and large splashes in the water.

· Model scooping up a pile of bath bubbles and placing them on your head or on your chin.

· Add songs & nursery rhymes to your play, modeling actions when needed. Some examples:

--Five Green & Speckled Frogs

--Five Little Ducks

--I Had a Little Turtle

--Row, Row, Row Your Boat

--Itsy-Bitsy Spider

--Rub-a-Dub-Dub, Three Men in a Tub

--Rain, Rain, Go Away