O LOVES to play with shaving cream! We decided to mix yellow and red to make orange in honor of Autumn. We placed cardstock on top of the shaving cream and food coloring to make marblized art. However, O was not very interested in making artwork. She just loved playing with the shaving cream. She mixed it around with spoons, spatulas, and forks. She put it in her plastic ice cream cones and "sold" me an ice cream cone :) She also hid tiny plastic animals in the shaving cream. This kept her happily occupied while I cleaned the kitchen :)
Do you know of any easy cooking projects for 2-3 yr olds? Any websites that might be helpful? Thanks;)
ReplyDeleteI LOVE playing with shaving cream too. Unfortunately my kids aren't too in to it and want to get it off their hands right away. I'm going to keep trying it with them though!
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ReplyDeleteHow fun! I think I'll try this with my 2 yr old tomorrow :) He will love it!
ReplyDeleteYou can also mix the shaving cream with white glue and use it to create a textured painting, it will dry quite puffy and really neat. It is great for snow scenes (kind of obvious) and can also be coloured for other pictures. One year I added a touch of brown paint and we used it to cover milk cartons for nativity stables, it dried to look like adobe and covered all the print on the milk cartons. I just squirt the shaving cream in a plastic bowl, then pour in some glue and the children mix it in the bowl, glob it onto their paper and enjoy. We also use it to have them create a star shape and cover it with lots of gold glitter for gym decorations at Christmas concert (big black paper) - very effective.
ReplyDeletewe did this recently, too -- soo much CLEAN fun!
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My kids HATE playing with shaving cream. Funny how it seems to be a love/hate sort of texture.
ReplyDeleteA fun activity - sometime try putting a white piece of paper over the finished play project, it soaks up a beautiful piece of artwork!
ReplyDeleteVanilla pudding works great too-esp on a highchair tray.
ReplyDeleteWhen my kids were little we would do this in the highchair with vanilla pudding--great fun!
ReplyDeleteI really dig this idea! Especially the adding glue - I'd seen that done on another post but without the shaving cream. I'm planning a craft-a-day sort of thing with my nieces for the week they'll be visiting my parents (we'll be there too) to help keep them occupied. I just realized I need to stitch them some art smocks, though! :>) I linked to this on my weekly roundup, post is here. Thanks!!
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ReplyDeleteim going to try this with my son it looks like fun
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