any ideas? relatively cheap n cheerful for elijah, he loves the bath but just sitting with a ducky isn't doing it for him anymore, we take his stacking cups in which are pretty good too but was thinking of something either to pour with or to stick to the side for 8 months+

My boys have a postman pat post box and foam letters of the alphabet for posting in. They also stick to side of bath and bodies lol. The boys love it. Think it was from toys r us x

Morrisons is really good for this at the mo, their baby event as such is coming to an end and they have the munchkin bath toys really cheap. They have 10 squirter animals for £3, this star fish thing that squirts water up £2, this turtle thats sort of a car on floor and floats on water £2, the stacking catterpillar cups but they have holes in the bottom for water to fall through and make different patterns, there are a couple more good ones but that is all i can remember off the top of my head.

The best for Andrew and Sophie at that age were the foam letters that stick to skin and the bath and tiles etc

Kinda girlee, but Maky has a pull string butterflies bath toy that is pretty cute. You pull their strings and they swim/flutter in the tub, and you have to try to catch them with their net. She also has a tugboat that she loves that came with a some cool wind up little accessories. But what she loves most of all is when I put Mr. Bubbles in the tub! Can't do it too often as it dries out her skin..but she would sit in the water till its either cold..or the bubbles disappear. xxx

what about one of those bubble makers? Im sure they sell them in Tesco's. it blows out lots of bubbles x

foam letters are always a hit ,,,, i think it was elc we got like a water sprayer pump type toy d loves
anything that squirts water lol !

Chloe has these little foam people that you put on different outfits, they stick to the wall and she loves dressing them up, but I've no idea where they came from

Ive brought so many different bath toys and i found a set of 6boats that float in poundland and callum loves them x
Also loves his basketball hoop likes putting the balls in and taking them bk out x

Tesco do a good selection xx

Wil has way too many bath toys and they go in and out of favour with him.

He has:

• Thomas Tidmouth bath sheds - trains that pour water in different ways (fairly rubbish)
  
• water flutes - fill with water for different sounds (good but he is too little for them really)
  
• cups and saucers set (£3 from Tesco) - he loves making tea in the bath (only thing is the teapot is stupid because it doesn't pour through a spout)
  
• Megablocks boat - loves filling it with water until it sinks
  
• Winnie the Pooh treehouse - loves it, has a waterwheel that he can pour water onto, 3 characters that go in a swing or down a slide and a bubble machine that he can operate
  

• bath squirters - fill with water and squeeze, good but he needs help to fill them and after a while they go manky and squirt more algae than water.
  

Wil loves it when OH or I get in the bath with him and we sing action songs or splash him.

oh+we
have most+of the
elc stuff, but they are+a pain,
as they go all+nasty and
as gill said, they need cleaning from the
algae and go all moldy so always bleaching them

hrmmm mouldy is no good! i like the spongy letters idea, i wonder if he would eat them all up though? i saw a tug boat type thing too which looked great, i think that might be a winner and could probably last a wee while as eli gets older

I need to get new toys too.

I dont recommend the bath crayons from tesco. They dont really draw and the crayon bits fall out of the holders and are very tempting for Caitlin to eat!
Iv saw Tesco do the sponge letters in a big tub for about £3, think il get them next week.

Atm we have wind up frog/ducks that she likes, crayons (being binned), disney princess dolls (actually they have ended up as normal toys as they dont do anything bathy lol), a plastic measuring jug (her fave as she just pours water everywhere!), plastic rings, a book that she ignores....

We have damn all actually. Its def the simple things that are the best. As a child I remember having a bucket with lots of holes in the bottom that I loved, think in going to look for things like that!

yeah the stacking cups are great cos they are coloured/different sizes and pour water out god, maybe i should just stick with them, eli seems happy enough

We do "duck pouring" from the largest stacking cup - hilarious apparently. Also squeezing the ducks to squirt water out is popular. And they used to hide just the other side of the rim of the bath when he could first stand confidently.

We also have wind up frogs (ELC is better than tescos) - OH sings "wind the froggy up " to the tune of "wind the bobbin up".

We have a net and 3 fish but he hasn't got the idea of those.