How to Make Shaving Cream Paint

So I came across this great little article about painting with kids! You know what it's like, you break out that new Medal Paints Roof paint and suddenly the kids are interested in helping.  To keep them busy while you beautify your Roof - try Shaving cream paint.

 

Supplies:

• Shaving cream (it must be white)
• Acrylic paint in several colors
• Toothpick
• Old loyalty card (or something else you can use as a scraper)
• White cardstock (I cut mine into shapes using my Cricut. You can cut your paper into shapes as well or simply use the entire piece of paper.)
• Brown cardboard box that water or soda is sold in

Directions:

1. Start by squirting your shaving cream into your brown cardboard box. Kids have fun playing in it for a bit before we moved onto the next steps.

2. Now, take your acrylic paint and squirt lines of it on top of the shaving cream. We chose to go with a rainbow of colors.  However, you can do only warm or cool colors, or even colors to fit with a certain holiday.

3. Take your toothpick and swirl the paint around a bit. It's going to begin to look slightly marbled. You can "marble" it as little or as much as you'd like.

4. It is time for the fun to begin! Take a piece of your cardstock and gently press it into the shaving cream and paint. Make sure to press all of the sides down.
5. Carefully remove your cardstock from the shaving cream. It should have a mixture of shaving cream and paint stuck to it.
6. Take your "scraper" and scrape away the shaving cream. The paint stays behind, leaving a lovely marbled painted look on your paper.
7. Repeat several times. Your shaving cream and paint will eventually get kind of muddled. However, we were able to do this 10-12 times easily before that began to happen.

I wanted to share a few things that you can do with your shaving cream art.

• Cut your cardstock into ornament shapes and decorate the tree.
• Use your painted shapes to create garland.
• Using an entire piece of painted cardstock, fold it in half to make a card.
• Hang it up as-is and enjoy!

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