STM+ Rec your toddler bath toys & how you clean them

Re: STM+ Rec your toddler bath toys & how you clean them

• pregarella member

  October 2014

  We started just doing stacking cups because everything else would get moldy. Then I found out that genius method of plugging the holes on the squeezy toys with a hot glue gun. No on anything foam, they go moldy too.

   

   
   

  

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• Ababy19 member

  October 2014

  We use a lot of non toy things, cups, funnel, wash cloths. A lot of things you'd typically use in a sand box. They do a ton of stuff with that stuff. We do still have some typical bath toys, ducks, cars, balls, but toss them once they start to get mold inside.

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

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• rm2013 member

  October 2014

  Awesome feedback ladies! Thanks so much. All these toy suggestions I'm going to try and love the tips on the hot glue gun and dishwasher!
  
  

  

  

  
  
  

  
  

  
  

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• cafecreme member

  October 2014

  We have some squeeky toys for bath time. 1x a week I just sit them in a bleach dilution so they don't have mold forming inside. 

  
  

  We have these too, and they seem to be a hit: 

  https://www.amazon.com/Munchkin-Baby-Bath-Toy-Turtles/dp/B008MYU8AI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1412354464&sr=8-2&keywords=turtle+bath+toys
  

  
  

   
  

  
  

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• cosmama member

  October 2014

  My daughter likes the stacking cups.  She plays tea party with them and flips them over to pretend she's having cupcakes with her tea.  We had been given a bunch of rubber duckies ...  never again unless they are solid with no holes.  Sliced them open after about a week or two and they were disgusting. I don't think you can really clean them properly without dismantling them. Ick. 

  The good thing about the hard plastic toys, like the stacking cups, is you can just throw them in the dishwasher occasionally.

  

  

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• LadySnowblood member

  October 2014

  DS likes those foam letters and numbers, bath crayons, and stacking cups. Also toys that aren't technically bath toys, but won't be ruined in water, like plastic dinosaurs and whatnot.

  

  For SuzyQ and all March 15 loss moms

   

  

   

  

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• MrsH288 member

  October 2014

  MandJS said:

  Fill the holes with a hot glue gun before you give them to your kiddos. Also, we have and the girls both love this tea set: https://www.amazon.com/Summer-Infant-Tub-Time-Party/dp/B001M2DBEW

  
  

  And we have a bunch of those "water sticker" things. E.g., stuff like this:https://www.amazon.com/ALEX®-Toys-Bathtime-Stickers-Playtime/dp/B000BN8YNG/ref=sr_1_4?s=baby-products&ie=UTF8&qid=1412346407&sr=1-4&keywords=bath+stickers

  
  

  OH! And also a bath stickers dress up doll thing like this: https://www.amazon.com/Meadow-Kids-Dress-Bath-Stickers/dp/B007O06JXG

  Second the "stickies" we got the pirate pack from Target and LO loves them. They have the net case so they haven't gotten moldy and we've had them a year without cleaning them other than soap in the bath.
  
  We tend to do more one time use toys that get thrown away, but definitely not every bath. Things like glowsticks or the capsules that turn into animals (really just a condensed sponge) LO gets a kick out of those.
  
  OH and bubbles. He loves when we blow bubbles in the bath probably more than any toy and it's a no clean-up job plus the bubbles/wand don't get wet so no chance of mold.
  

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• rm2013 member

  October 2014

  jessuhmarie said:

  Oh and the hot glue just popped right off of our squirt toys after a bath or two so I just gave up on those

  Hmmm.... I wonder if I squeeze the ducky while putting the glue on and then let go , maybe some glue will go inside and form a double sided plug.
  

  

  

  
  
  

  
  

  
  

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• rm2013 member

  October 2014

  Thanks again ladies! I'm going to have a very happy (and clean) little one!

  

  

  
  
  

  
  

  
  

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