I often continue the kids’ current play interests into the bath. We love spooky, glow-in-the dark baths and do them often, so our space bath was a fairly simple set up. I put some Glo Pals light-up cubes and glow sticks\/ bracelets in the bath and sprinkled some glow-in-the-dark rocks on the bath tray with some cups with strainer holes in the bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *As an Amazon Affiliate I earn from qualifying purchases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Space Orbit Ball Run<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I thought it would be fun to make a spiralling ball run and use the Grapat Dear Universe planets as the balls, so they looked liked orbiting planets. However, this play activity taught me that ball runs are much more difficult to build than they look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I had some pretty ambitious ideas for this ball run, that my skills couldn\u2019t match. After an hour and a half, I was happy to have something that at least worked. However, it wasn\u2019t that stable. I don\u2019t recommend this design. I am happy with it for a first try, but there is lots of room to improve. I need to work on my skills. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite the shaky build, the kids really enjoyed playing with this and surprisingly didn’t get too discouraged that they needed to rebuild it after every 2-3 runs. I think it would definitely be worth trying this again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Materials<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"glow](\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_4914-1024x768.jpeg\")
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