Learning Skills

While running water through the lab, your child sees the chain reaction, reinforcing sequential thought, and demonstrating the basic principle of cause and effect. Because the reaction unfolds in various ways, they understand it is a more complex idea too.

Knowledge Acquisition

As your child puts various flows into motion, demonstrate basic STEM principles through the power of water to create movement and speed, concepts like empty and full, kinetic energy, hydropower, and even measurement using the marks on the test tube.

Curiosity

The lab creates different and surprising water effects. Allow the fun of discovery and variation to encourage more curiosity and further your child’s desire to explore and learn, and to strengthen the connection between play and learning time.

Fine Motor Skills

Holding, filling, aiming, and pouring the test tube water is a great opportunity for your child to develop their fine motor skills, strengthening manual dexterity. Encourage them to use both hands to fill up the lab, first one hand, then the other.

Gross Motor Skills

As your child sits in the tub and plays with the water lab they are unwittingly maintaining a controlled sitting position while they maneuver, promoting sitting stability and encouraging a wider range of sitting activities.

Coordination

Once your child has filled the test tube, pouring it pointedly into the water lab requires movement coordination and improves your child’s hand-eye coordination. The anticipation of the chain reaction provides plenty of encouragement.

Self-Expression

Your child’s sense of humor begins to develop at a very young age. Introduce silliness and fun to bath time with the water lab’s googly-eyed funnel, the mischievous humor of the crazy, unexpected spraying action, and the crazy water gauge.

Cooperation

Playing together, you and your child can enjoy fascinating water games while modeling cooperation. Get wet, laugh, and let loose as you work together in the lab, share the experience, and teach your little one the joy of playing together.

Confidence

For children, every little win is a huge boost of confidence. The water lab offers many simple accomplishments, developed for their precise abilities and encouraging independent play.