My kids love their baths and we try to make baths as fun and frugal as possible. Here is a list of thirteen tips and recipes to make bath time more fun in your house!

1. No need to buy expensive bathtub crayons- you can make your own. These can also double
as a great stocking stuffer for Christmas or another fun item in your
child’s Easter Basket.

Bathtub Crayons

1 Cup grated Ivory soap
¼ cup warm water
Food Coloring Plastic cookie cutters or hard candy molds

Directions:
Mix water, soap and food coloring together in bowl. Remove the mixture
from bowl and knead it until it’s the consistency of thick dough. Spoon
mixture into plastic cookie cutters or candy molds. Place the cookie
cutters or molds in the freezer for 10 minutes or longer. Pop the
crayons out of the cookie cutters and allow them to dry overnight.

2. Don’t buy expensive bath toys. My favorite bath toys, as a child, were
my mother’s Tupperware collection. The bath toys that she bought were
not as much fun as pretending to cook or collecting water to dump.

3. When you wash your shower curtain liner you can just toss the bath toys
in with the liner to be washed. This periodic washing will cut down on germs.

4. Use a child’s sand pail to put all of your bathing supplies in for your baby. When they get older, they can then use this as a toy. This will save you from running back and forth to get all of the items that you need for bath time.

5. Finger paints can be a fun addition to your child’s bath. Here is a recipe to make some of these for your kids:

Bubble Bath Finger Paints
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt,
Food coloring
Bubble bath (not the foamy type)
Water

Directions:
Mix water with the flour until you get a paste. Add food coloring and
bubble bath until you get the thickness you like. This works well in
the bath tub. They can paint themselves or the walls and it washes
right off. It may turn the water the color of the food coloring but it
won’t stain the child.

6. If you use the foamy hand soaps, save your pump and reuse it for your child’s bodywash. Simply refill the pump with a third of your child’s favorite bodywash and then top it off with water. Give it a little shake and you have fun foamy soap for a
fraction of the price!

7. Make your own hair detangler by combining one part conditioner with ten parts water. Mix well and pour into a spray bottle.