"Tea Time"
* Plastic toy tea pot set with cups, cut up lemons, sugar, spoons, and tea bags (no liquid for no mess)
"Dessert"
* Sand, plastic bugs or reptiles, rakes, shovels, sticks, and rocks
"Ocean"
* Water with blue food coloring, plastic sea animals, toy boats
"Ahoy Matey"
*Sand, coins, rolled up small pieces of paper, jewels (or shiny beads) for going on a treasure hunt! Shovels and diggers and brown bag for collections!
"Dino Dig"
* Sand, small plastic dinosaurs, and white materials (Styrofoam peanuts, white covered pretzels, cut up straws, small white rocks) to imitate dino bones! Don't forget the diggers, shovels, and buckets!
"Birthday Party"
* Cupcake trays, cupcake paper liners, large sprinkles, measuring cups and spoons, plastic mixing bowls, stir spoon, one color of play-dough, and un-lit candles! Just put it all in the tub and let the child pretend and create!
"Squeeze and Squirt"
* Water, sponges, water toy squirters, empty liquid dish-soap bottles filled with water to let your child squirt out, & washrags to twist
"Picture Album"
* Cut up pictures of people, things, actions, or places from a magazine before hand. Make sure you have a lot! Place in tub with an empty photo album. See what your child does with it all!