Good Clean Fun

I have to admit, I feel kind of stupid for not having thought of this earlier.

Our kids LOVE washing dishes!  To the point where it's kind of a hazard sometimes because they'll move a chair to the sink and start throwing dishes in, glasses and knives included and run water to almost overflowing. 

Look at cute little Baby Micah washing dishes!!!!  I can't believe this kiddo is going to be 5 on Monday!

 Occasionally, we'd give the kids a separate bowl of soapy water to scrub stuff, but it never occurred to me to fill our water table with suds, until yesterday!

Oh man did they have fun! 

Liliana could have played in it for hours!  I cut her off eventually because we needed to eat but she asked right away when we could play in the "soaps" again.

 I used Johnson's Baby Wash to make the bubbles for two reasons.  1-  It's tearfree.  2-  I had done a couponing deal on it when I was pregnant with Micah...27 cents a bottle at Target!  What a deal, right!?!?!  Plus I'll be having more kids, so I probably need like 30 bottles or something, right?!?!  Wrong!  We went through maybe 3 or 4 bottles and the rest are being used to make homemade bubble solution or being donated to crisis nursery centers. 

 

If you don't have a water table, you can easily do this same activity by filling any old Rubbermaid tub or kiddie pool with soapy water.  We used an attachment on the hose to shoot the water really fast into the tub to get the foamy effect.