What is crackling soap?
Crackling soap provides a lot of stimuli in one! Smell, sight, tactile and auditory! Spray crackling soap on your hand and feel the tingling on the skin. The soap immediately begins to crackle as soon as it comes into contact with the skin and is slowly rubbed out (the slower, the better).
The fresh scent gives an extra sensory stimulus. It is hand soap in foam form that starts crackling the moment you rub it in the hands. A bus lasts about 50 to 60 times. It does not require water and it has been dermatologically tested. A sensory feast!
Hygiene and crackling soap
Various studies show that hands are generally washed far too little and in the wrong way and too short. This unnecessarily increases the risk of diseases. And especially now at the time of Corona, good hand washing is a must!
Crackling soap is certainly an ideal means to apply as a parent or professional to get children to wash their hands.
Washing hands during Corona
Now during corona it is not easy for sensitive children or children with stimulus processing problems! Everywhere you go you have to disinfect your hands with, for example, transparent smelly gel that also feels cold and sometimes sticks! You’d be less crazy about this as a sensitive child!
1 tip? Take 1 bottle of crackling soap with you when you go shopping or go to places where you have to disinfect your hands and say to your child, first the gel and as a reward you get crackling soap! Especially with small children, the lookout is blown. They often put their fingers in their mouths and like to eat with their hands. For example, you can also regularly clean a chew chain under the tap, just rinse off, you can make this a good habit together with your child (under supervision!)
How do you encourage children to wash their hands more with crackling soap?
What we know is that many parents also use this amazing sensory soap as a reward tool to teach children much more. Whatever you teach the children; Learned young is done old. So you can create a reward system or step-by-step plan. You explain when and how to wash your hands and you do it for… When children are rebellious, try crackling soap, which comes in different scents and colors and encourages children to wash their hands more and long enough.
Crackling soap, easy to carry
Some sensitive children can’t stand certain smells of soap, or have trouble using lavender soap at home, for example, and suddenly they have to use a different floral scent soap in another place, very confusing and not really sensory friendly all those smells mixed together… Compare it to a perfumery shop all the scents mixed together… Even I as an adult am waiting outside the store, because I come home overstimulated and with a headache!
Teaching good hand washing through exemplary behaviour
If necessary, use pictos of hand washing or make a video that you slow down, so that your child can see at his or her pace which ”actions’ and how long ” you should wash your hands. Do not scare your child when you tell about dirty bacteria or bugs on the hands, for example, this can cause fear in sensitive children, because they do not see those bacteria!
Reward system and step-by-step plan hand washing
Also useful for preschoolers is the step-by-step plan of handy Hans see this link: https://www.zorg-en-gezondheid.be/campagne-handjes-wassen-met-handige-hans. Make hand washing as fun as possible for your child! And remind your child in the beginning when and where or why they should wash their hands, turn it into games with reward system attached, often this helps and the children are very proud of themselves and encourage other children in school, for example, to wash their hands together.
Preschoolers will not easily wash their hands on their own. If you reward them for it, they feel extra stimulated. That is why Handy Hans came up with this reward system. Every time a toddler has washed their hands properly, they can color a hand behind their name. If all hands are colored, a diploma awaits. This diploma can possibly be given to the parents via the back-and-forth notebook.
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Tactile stimulus processing and crackling soap
You can also play with the crackling soap sensory game! For example, a container and hiding things in it and filling it with crackling soap. Fun and above all a lot of tactile sensation guaranteed ! For example, children learn to get used to crackling or with some crackling soap with smell while ”playing”. ideal to pamper the senses in all areas!
Tips for washing hands
- Give compliments
Children like to do good. They always want to show the best behavior, that’s in their nature. By giving them a compliment at the right time (when they have finally washed those hands).
2. Lead by example
By washing hands regularly at fixed times and involving your child, you teach your child that this is a good habit.
3. Keep encouraging and repeat yourself
The core of motherhood is encouraging and repeating yourself. Good habits must be figuratively instilled in a child’s ears, and that cannot be done without having said it many times. Don’t give up. Once upon a time it was there that you washed your hands with soap after going to the toilet. Then pat yourself extensively on the chest. Until then, it’s time to get started.
4. Hand wash savings card
Turn hand washing into a game and reward your child with stickers. Make a savings card that your little one can put a sticker on every time he washes his hands. You can possibly agree that your little one will receive an extra reward with a full savings card, for example an extra sticker.
5. Sing songs
Make hand washing a party and sing songs. Not only cozy, but also handy. The songs below last exactly 20 seconds: the time it takes to wash your hands properly. This way your child knows exactly when he is ready.
• Long will she live
• Father Jacob
• I saw two bears
• Always short Jakje is sick
• It’s raining, it’s raining, the pans are getting wet.
6. Provide information
There are booklets and stories about hand washing and dirty and clean
There are many books and stories about washing hands, or about dirty and clean. These can help your child in a fun way to understand what is dirty and clean, and why it is important to wash your hands.
On YouTube you can find various videos and songs about washing hands with your little one’s favorite heroes. Feel free to sing along to these songs while washing your hands!
7. Make your own soap with your child
What do you need to make confetti soap?
- Translucent soap dispenser (available at Hema)
- Translucent hand soap
- String pearls or glitters in different colors
This is how you work!
- Fill the soap dispenser with translucent hand soap
- Choose ironing pearls in beautiful colors that match each other and add them to the soap.
- Close the soap dispenser and shake well so that the ironing beads are nicely distributed. With some types of soap, the ironing pearls come back up.
- Shake once before use and the confetti is again nicely distributed over the soap.
Hand washing children? Jaaaaaaaaaaa!
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