Marbled Paper Shaving Cream

This is one of our all time favorite art activities.

Marbled paper shaving cream.

2 use the back of a squeegee or you can use a ruler to spread the shaving cream out to a nice even layer. Right away this craft gets messy. Remove to a work surface. Apply a small amount of shaving cream to the pan or use wax paper so that you can make a layer that is a little wider than your cardstock sheet and about 1 4 1 25 cm thick.

Pull up the paper and scrape off the excess shaving cream with a ruler in one continuous movement to reveal the marbling. The idea that you could transfer a swirly pattern of colours onto a piece of paper just by pressing the paper into a pan of shaving cream kind of perplexed me. Add drops of food coloring on top. Take a straw and make swirl designs making sure theres still white showing.

Place a piece of paper on top of the shaving cream and press it down so all of it touches. This marbled paper craft is one i learned was when i was taking my art education class back in college. Allow it to dry. With the edge of a credit card scrape the shaving cream off the paper.

Place the cardstock into the shaving cream pressing gently. Spray shaving cream onto a tray or box lid and have the kids spread it around. Shaving cream card stock cut into egg shapes acrylic paint tray or box lid paintbrush toothpick or fork newspapers paper towels scraper tool. Shaving cream the cheap kind from the dollar store works great.

Then take 3 4 colors of acrylic paint and put drops all over. I have a binder full of ideas and this is one i pulled out a while ago when we were making our marbled valentine hearts with shaving cream the kids had a blast the first time we did it and i wanted to make the cover for our kids art and activities binder for this school year. The best easiest and cheapest diy marbled paper is done with shaving cream marbling. Paper crafts are always fun but when i first heard about marbling with shaving cream and food colour i was skeptical.

Paper i like paper with a little bit of texture such as cheap construction paper but any paper including copy paper will work great. Press a blank piece of paper into the shaving cream. Use a craft stick to gently swirl the food coloring into the shaving cream. How to make marbled paper easter eggs.

Shaving cream is made of a mixture of soap and water with a gas that can turn liquid into foam when you spray it out of the bottle. Spray a layer of shaving cream on the bottom of a tray. Start by spraying shaving cream all over a cookie sheet.