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Painting with shaving cream is an amazing sensory play idea for indoors or out! Use it in the bath or take it outside to paint on the patio door like we did!
We love playing with shaving cream! I always have a couple of cheap cans of Barbasol shaving foam set aside for play activities.We frequently use it to create art and for sensory play.
You can see some of our shaving cream activities here:
Shaving Cream Writing Tray for Preschoolers
DIY Marbled Paper with Shaving Cream and Liquid Watercolours (or food colours)
Shaving Cream Art on a Mirror: Painting Clouds
Teaching Spreading Skills with Blocks and Shaving Cream
If you only have one or two little ones, this shaving cream paint is a fabulous bath-time activity.
I play with a sightly larger crowd though so we use our sliding glass doors as a large “canvas” for everyone to gather around.
Making your shaving cream paint:
Squirt some shaving cream into a muffin tin and add a few drops of food colouring.
Let your little ones stir up their colours.
Painting with shaving cream:
Grab your paintbrushes and go nuts. 🙂
They LOVED this activity! Even my twelve year old, who was home this morning because he was heading out to a hockey tournament, got in on the action.
Honestly, they had a blast. They were at it for about an hour, and when 3 of them finally finished up and moved on, one of the youngest ones stayed at it for a good 15 or 20 minutes more.
Who knew something this simple would keep them entertained for this long? It was a wonderful way to spend the morning creating art in the great, wide open.
And when they were done, I filled up a bucket with warm water and handed out sponges, and we had a whole new activity on our hands (not to mention squeaky-clean sliding glass doors). 😉
The amazing Anna fromThe Imagination Treemadeshaving cream bath paintlast winter and I love how she served hers up.
More Shaving Cream Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers:
Shaving Cream Car Wash
Shaving Cream Magna Doodle Activity
Messy Play with Shaving Cream and Food Colouring
Teaching Spreading Skills with Blocks and Shaving Cream
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Spirit ( From Tantrums To Treasure Hunts )
I love the colors that were made, cant beat shaving cream fun. The smell, texture all of it wakes the senses and gets the creative juices flowing. I love that your son joined also 🙂 Missed your posts, So glad you are back. you are a wonderful blogger!
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happyhooligans
Thanks, Spirit! It’s great to be back!
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I have heard that shaving cream works wonders on windows and I love the idea of the kids helping out and having fun at the same time. just pinned!
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Bette V
I use it on my tables at school when they get really dirty. Takes a while to get it all off, but I have clean tables and the kiddos love it. WE use it for namewriting practice while we are at it.
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happyhooligans
That is just a brilliant way to get the tables clean and have some fun all at the same time! You’ve just given me a great idea for a new activity, Bette! 🙂
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Melissa @ The Chocolate Muffin Tree
What fun! We’ve done this in the bath tub and on the window sounds fabulous! We will definitely do this!
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Leroy
I is over 60 when I was a kid in club scout we did lot of thing messy paint,mud making lot thing, some to learn our pin happy to know kid still have fun.
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happyhooligans
I’m so glad this brought back good memories for you, Leroy. I’m all about providing kids with the kind of good, old-fashioned play experiences we had “back in the day”. 🙂
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Love this whole activity – from making to playing – all the way to cleaning:-) 😉
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Janese Canada
When my kids were little we did this, but we would have one child stand on the inside (or clean side) and pose against the window. The kids on the paint side would then paint the model. We would dress them as funny clowns or pirates along with any other character ideas they could come up with. It was always entertaining and every child loved getting involved. I’m so glad to see that kids are still doing this activity. It was always one of my favorites
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happyhooligans
I LOVE the idea of having one stand on the inside of the glass, Janese! That’s brilliant!
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Pat
Does the shaving cream not burn their eyes if they rub them?
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happyhooligans
Yes, I imagine it would. You’d want to do this with age-appropriate children, and let them know not to touch their eyes while playing.
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Chris
Won’t using food colors stain? Whenever I use food coloring for frosting, egg coloring, etc, I found that it stained.
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Jackie Currie
Hi Chris! Your question is a good one. At full strength, right out of the bottle, food colouring will temporarily stain your fingers. The great thing is that shaving cream is an easy way to get the stain off, so when we mix food colouring with shaving cream for play, there really isn’t any staining. If there’s any slight discolouration, a scrub with some fresh shaving cream, when you’re finished playing, should remove it. 🙂
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