Shaving Cream Art Activity

The girls and I are always on the lookout for new activities.  We decided to try to fit this one in before school - crazy and chaotic mistake, but great fun nonetheless ;) 

(** Excuse the phone photography**)

Shaving Cream Art

So, first gather all the supplies.  You will need 

• Shaving Cream (the foam kind, not the gel) (also, mens shaving cream tends to be cheaper, but it will leave the house smelling like a strange man stepped out of your shower. And you also may smell rather...masculine.)
• Food coloring and/or Liquid Watercolors
• Cardstock
• Plastic tuporware lid
• Toothpicks, coffee stirrers, or other methods of swirling the cream
• A cookie pan
• Lots of paper towels 
• Little hands excited to get messy and squeeze color everywhere

First lay paper towels or other form of protection beneath the cookie sheet, then let the little experimenter spray the shaving cream all over the pan.

And smooth it out.  She was so excited that I was going to let her touch it.

Squeeze the color onto the shaving cream, and have fun swirling and mixing!

Using hands for mixing the colors is not recommended.  Apparently food coloring stains...  *cough*

Once the colors are on the shaving cream how you want them, grab your piece of cardstock, lay it on the cream, and press.  Regular paper works fine, but gets limp and difficult.  Cardstock is far easier to manage.

Lift the paper up, scrape off excess cream, and lay to dry.  You will have a rainbow, marble, beautiful mess that will have everyone mesmerized.

Don't use your hands to scoop out the extra shaving cream.  Unless, of course, you like your skin purple and pink.  In that case, go for it.  It will stay for quite some time, so enjoy ;)