Take a bath
Sitting in the bathtub is a full-body experience: heat against the stomach, sound muffled at the ear below the surface, and time blurring. The visual support below helps the child sense where in the bath they are, and when a dry towel is coming.
♀Take a bath
A person in a bathtub with bubbles, holding a rubber duck in one hand and a pink sponge in the other.
About this visual support
A bath is not only hygiene, it is one of the few moments of the day when the entire body is wrapped in something other than clothes or air. Warm water presses softly against the chest, sounds from the kitchen become distant, and if the child dips their ears under the surface, half the world disappears. For some this is pure rest. For others it is overwhelming – because there is no clear edge between where the bath begins and where it ends.
That is why seeing the bath as a sequence, not as one long moment, helps. Undressing, helping with the water, getting in, playing a bit, washing the hair, rinsing, climbing out, wrapping in a towel. With the pictures on a shelf next to the tub, the child can follow the arc and see for themselves that an ending exists. Knowing the towel is coming makes it easier to agree to the shampoo part.
One concrete tip: pick a clear ending action that is not water has gone cold – for example, pulling the plug while still in the tub. It becomes a bodily signal that the bath is over. If you want to show the whole evening as a chain from bath to bed, you can put it together in Routined and let the child tick off each part.