Exploring, touching, and asking questions: Children are little explorers who grasp the world with all their senses. These are particularly important for child development and are developed incidentally while happily splashing around in a bubble bath. Bübchen explains why it's important for little ones to engage intensively with materials and textures and shows how the bathtub can become a place for foam adventures and sensory experiences.
Small children perceive the world with all their senses. They use their eyes, ears, nose, and especially their hands to perceive and understand as much as possible. Exploring different objects and materials is a sensory journey of discovery for little ones. Even though smelling leaves, tearing them apart, and examining their bright colors and different shapes is a lot of fun, it is more than just play. Every touch, every smell and taste, every sound helps to gain experience and learn from it. When a child experiences a sensory impression, new connections are formed in their brain. The various forms of intelligence develop on this basis.
TARGETED PROMOTION OF THE SENSE OF TOUCH
In nature, children can gather many sensory impressions while playing in the mud, searching for stones and sticks, or building sandcastles. The sense of touch plays a particularly important role, because by touching different things, children learn to understand their surroundings and complex relationships. This sense can also be encouraged in everyday life: For example, the bathtub at home can become the setting for sensory-stimulating bathing adventures. In bubble baths, little ones can feel the foam with their fingers. The skin receptors absorb the temperature and moisture of the foam. This promotes both fine and gross motor skills and also inspires the imagination when forming the small bubbles. It is particularly fun for little ones, for example, to make foam hats and beards: simply spread a large mountain of foam on the heads of their siblings, parents, or their own, or stick it on their chin as a beard.
DISCOVER THE SENSE OF HEARING THROUGH PLAY
A well-developed sense of hearing is very important for a child's development. By taking in different sounds and noises, they can relate what they hear to previous experiences and learn to differentiate between sounds and classify them. Good hearing is also essential for learning and improving language. Spatial hearing only develops over time through different hearing experiences. Parents can take advantage of the fact that children find sounds that they make themselves or that come from their environment particularly fascinating. They can easily and playfully encourage their children's hearing in everyday life. When bathing, for example, a bath additive with a crackling effect (e.g. Bübchen Wildfang-Bad) creates an exciting auditory adventure. To do this, simply sprinkle the additive in while the child is already sitting in the warm water, be completely silent and listen. Whoever hears the very last crackling sound wins and gets to choose the next game.
TRAINING VISION, MADE EASY
The eye is the most important sensory organ in humans. Especially in childhood, it is responsible for ensuring that information about the environment can be absorbed, processed, and classified. However, vision is not fully developed from birth. The interaction between the two eyes continues to develop well into adolescence. For example, toddlers can see just as well as their parents, but they are not yet able to estimate speed as well, for example. If you want to specifically encourage your little ones' visual perception, you can easily incorporate simple exercises and games into your everyday life. Whether it is playing "I spy something you don't see" in the pediatrician's waiting room or a memory game in the afternoon - eyes can also be trained while splashing around in the tub. Colored bubble baths that give the water different colors are ideal for this ( e.g. the Bübchen bath laboratory ). Little ones will be amazed when, as if by magic, the water suddenly turns purple after you pour in the blue and red bath additives. Now you add the granules to the tub, and as if by magic, the water turns a completely different color. Through such games, children learn to better perceive their surroundings, even small details.
