🛀 Bath Pouring Lab
Three cups in the bath and one question: which holds the most?
🔍 Discover·20 min·Free·Ages 1–4·👶 Easy·🧑 Light
⚠️ Safety first
Stay within arm's reach the whole time. Never leave a child alone near water, even a few centimetres.
You know your child best — supervise the whole time and skip anything that isn't right for them. See our Terms.
Why this is good for your child
- ✓Pouring
- ✓Volume
🌱 Montessori-inspired · Sensorial
What you need
Cups of different sizes · A funnel
How to do it
- 1.Put three different-sized cups in the bath.
- 2.Ask which holds the most.
- 3.Fill and pour to find out.
How it actually goes
- ⏱ 30-second set-up —
- Thirty seconds: put cups of different sizes, a funnel on a tray or a clear bit of floor, and sit down next to it before you call them over.
- 🧑 What you do —
- Show it once, slowly, without talking over yourself. Then hand it over and stop helping unless they ask.
- 👶 What they do —
- Touch, shake, sort and compare until it makes sense to them.
- ✅ What success looks like —
- At 1–2 they'll tip it out and put nothing back. That's the work — emptying comes long before filling.
- 🧺 How to put it away —
- Everything back into one basket or tray, carried back to its spot by them. Naming the spot out loud is what makes it stick.
- 📈 When they outgrow it —
- Older? Add a blindfold or a guessing round — same thing, harder.