It can be difficult to get toddlers to take a bath; this party makes bath-time fun! The kids must show up in bathing suits

Supplies:

• 3-4 kiddie pools

• Bath-time rubber toys, squirting toys and animals and alphabet shaped sponges

• Rainbow foaming hand soap (artsy party)

• Small fishing poles or novelty fishing poles for the ‘Fishing Well’

• A carnival booth or a large television cardboard box decorated to look like a wishing well (use large permanent markers and poster paint to draw a well on the front of the box and hot-glue artificial flowers on the front where the 2-D hole of the well is drawn.)

• Clothespins

• Bath-time toys and soaps, colorful novelty towels, small water guns or small floating sailboats for “Fishing Well” prizes

• Bubble machines/bubble blowers and individual bubbles for parents and toddlers to blow bubbles

• Silver or iridescent white or clear balloons (tied together in groups of 2 and 3 and strewn about to resemble bubbles)

• 1-2 Sprinkler systems

• 8-16 cheap hula-hoops

• 2-4 clear shower curtains cut into 4-6 inch wide strips, but still the length of a standard shower curtain

• Small colorful buckets

• Small chairs or waterproof pillows for the fishing well

Rub-A-Dub Water Park Toddler Party

It can be difficult to get toddlers to take a bath; this party makes bath-time fun! The kids must show up in bathing suits

Supplies:

• 3-4 kiddie pools

• Bath-time rubber toys, squirting toys and animals and alphabet shaped sponges

• Rainbow foaming hand soap (artsy party)

• Small fishing poles or novelty fishing poles for the ‘Fishing Well’

• A carnival booth or a large television cardboard box decorated to look like a wishing well (use large permanent markers and poster paint to draw a well on the front of the box and hot-glue artificial flowers on the front where the 2-D hole of the well is drawn.)

• Clothespins

• Bath-time toys and soaps, colorful novelty towels, small water guns or small floating sailboats for “Fishing Well” prizes

• Bubble machines/bubble blowers and individual bubbles for parents and toddlers to blow bubbles

• Silver or iridescent white or clear balloons (tied together in groups of 2 and 3 and strewn about to resemble bubbles)

• 1-2 Sprinkler systems

• 8-16 cheap hula-hoops

• 2-4 clear shower curtains cut into 4-6 inch wide strips, but still the length of a standard shower curtain

• Small colorful buckets

• Small chairs or waterproof pillows for the fishing well

Activities/Set-up

 Rub-A-Dub Water Park

Instructions:

Get the hula-hoops and saw or cut off the bottom fourth of each hula-hoop and use 3-5 for each maze for the toddlers to crawl through to get to one of the pools or “Rub-A-Dub” water park.

To Make The Maze:

After the bottom fourth of the hula-hoops have been sawed off, push the ends into the ground and space them about 2-3 feet apart. Depending on how many hula hoops you purchase, you can have between 2 and 4 maze structures. You can place them in a zigzag or curving pattern. Each tunnel will lead to a different pool. In the center should be the pools and the sprinklers, as well as most of the ‘bubbles’ or balloons and the bubble blower.

So it should look like a spider or an octopus, with each leg being the tunnels.

Once the hula-hoops are in the ground. Get the clear shower curtain strips and hot-glue them to the hula-hoops; one across the top, and one along each side to connect each hula hoop so it looks more like a tunnel, so you should need no more than 3 to give it a tunnel effect.

Arrange each pool at least 3 feet in front of the tunnel so the kids can have room to stand up and walk to the pool. Each pool can have a different theme: sailing, sea animals, bath soaps and foams, or they can each have an assortment.

The sprinkler should be positioned in the center of all the pools so all kids get splashed from time to time and to add to the water park allure.

The bubble blower will make it seem like more of a bath-time party.