Crayola Bath Colors

Just Red

• If your dude or dudette is obsessed with red cartoon cars that talk, his or her favorite color is evident. Red Crayola Bath Dropz can be dumped into the water solo, and by the time they finish fizzing, the bath water will look like a cherry Kool-Aid festival. Mix the red with blue and your little alchemist can soak in purple, or throw in a third color and he can splash around in something resembling your morning coffee.

True Blue

• It's ideal for a bathtub, your sensibilities and an armada of plastic boats: a single tub of blue Crayola Bath Dropz may be all you need to get your junior sailor to meet you at the tub nightly -- before it's bath time. One container of blue tablets offers a month-long soak on the high seas since product package estimates 30 tubs per package. Pair blue with yellow Dropz, and tell your child about the green-blue waters of the Caribbean where gorgeous fish (including Nemo) hang out among coral reefs.

Purple, Orange and Green

• A mom writing to Crayola about her children's experience with the company's three-pack Bath Dropz expressed surprise when she found purple, orange and green tablets inside the Crayola package. She was expecting primary colors. Of course, her kids could have cared less about the hues; they mixed what may otherwise be judged as a pretty awful shade of brownish gray and delighted in it. So much for feeling badly about a red/blue/yellow combination.

Primary Pack of Dropz

• Of course, Crayola Color Bath Dropz do come in blue, red and yellow, and the company does make a blue, red and yellow combination pack so your kids can create orangeade with the red and yellow, a fun shade of green mixing yellow and blue and the usual selection of really strange colors they'll take great pride in. Everything washes off nicely, so there's no red ring around the tub when you finally get the children out and wrapped in towels. You can even mix Color Dropz with your bubble bath if you'd prefer to disguise the brown water under something more attractive like bubbles.

Don't Forget the Color Crayons

• There will be an awful lot of skin pruning at your house once you turn your children loose in a tinted bath with a package of Crayola Bath Crayons to continue the theme those Dropz began. Your kids can use your tile backsplash as their canvas, filling the space with red, orange, green, blue, purple, brown, gold, teal and cranberry shapes and pictures. Talk about fun. Pair Crayola Bath Dropz with crayons, and you'll lay claim to the cleanest kids in the neighborhood.