Squishy Baff

A couple of weeks ago, my friend Shelly told me about a sensory activity that Bobby might like.  She had bought it for Sonny, he wasn't having it, but Joey loved it.  The very next day on Live with Kelly they were showing the top new toys from the annual New York toy fair and they showed Squishy Baff, the same thing that Shelly was telling be about the day before.  Last week I was at Wal-Mart looking at play-doh toys and there was Squishy Baff sitting on the shelf right beside the play-doh, so I had to buy a box.

The box contains 2 baths worth of squishyness.  You fill your bathtub with 2 1/2 inches of luke warm water and add the first packet into the water and stir it around for the squishy part.  When you are finished with the bath, you add the 2nd packet to turn it back to water.

After you add the first packet, you have to wait 5-10 minutes for the squishyness to be ready.

This is a super thick, squishy bathtub full of kid fun.  So thick that it holds this cup upright...

When I came back in and felt the "water," I had serious doubts that Bobby would get in.  He sat on the side of the bathtub for a long time and just looked at the water, trying to figure out what to do...

He then did a spiderman over the bathtub, hovering over the tub with his hands and feet planted on the tub rim...

He finally did it, he put his feet in the water.  He never did sit down, but played in the squish for about 5 minutes.

He would put his hands in, scoop up and handful, drop it into the water then shake his hands like a wet dog to get the rest off.  When he was done, I got the 2nd packet to turn it back into water and it said that it takes 5-10 minutes to transform back.  Well, Bobby isn't going to wait 5-10 minutes for anything, so I had to get him out, dry him off, take him into the other bathroom, and rinse him off in the other bathtub.  I also had to keep adding water to the mixture when it was draining because it never really turned all the way back to water.  I finally had to wipe out the rest from my bathtub. 

The next time that we do this activity, we are going to do it outside in a baby pool (which they also talk about in the directions), where he can play in the squish all day, in and out as he pleases and I can just hose the goop off of him.  Seems to be a common theme with our sensory activities, much more fun if they were done outside.

Bobby dressed himself again, this time in my polar fleece top, upside down and inside out.

Playing in rice, beans, or the little water balls has become a routine part of Bobby's evenings.