My good friend and I were talking the other day and she said
her niece and nephew along with her sister were going to be in town for a
couple weeks. We were talking about
different activities to do with kids and I told her about shaving cream eggs. She said she needed pictures. I posted this last year, they are so
great. This Wednesday, Feb 22 is Ash
Wednesday so Easter is on Sunday, April 8th this year. You have plenty of time to make some shaving
cream eggs!
Step #1
Supplies:
-I have a trash bag covering the area I am working on
-Shaving Cream (bought mine for a buck at the dollar store)
-Food Coloring-liquid kind that squeezes out in droplets
-paper plates
-popsicle sticks
-plastic glove
-paper
-markers
-scissors
I have done this in a classroom setting and at home. At home I recommend doing it on the kitchen
floor or outside. In the classroom and
at home, each child needs their own paper plate. At home you can use the paper plates or you
can make a bigger one and use a cookie sheet if you would like.
Step #2
Put shaving cream on the plate and drop a color of each
(red, yellow, blue, green) on top of the shaving cream. Before you put the color on, the kids need to
take a popsicle stick and smooth out the shaving cream, like decorating a
cake. (I forgot this step so mine looks
more like a mountain, but it is SO MUCH BETTER and easier if you spread it out
and make it even BEFORE you put the color on.)
I forgot to mention, draw the outline on an egg. Just eyeball it, not a big deal.
Step #3
DO NOT MIX OR STIR the color. If you do, you will get a grey soupy
color. You take the popsicle stick and
SLICE. You make tic-tac-toe signs, this
way and that way. Then some diagonally
until you like what you see. Slicing in
tic-tac-toe signs pulls the color and gives it a marble type look.
Basically you are making a stamp pad for your egg.
Step #4
Take your egg and put it in the colorful shaving cream. Your egg will pull the color up.
Step #5
Take the popsicle stick and scrap off the excess shaving
cream.
This is what your egg will look like. Notice I have paper towels in the
background. Ya, those are good to have
around, I had shaving cream all over my hands.
Just stamping an egg once will pull your color and design up
smearing your color and making it soupy, that is why each kid needs their
own. (my paper was larger than the plate so I had to push it down a few times, if you use something larger like a cookie sheet you should only have to do it once) I am sure you hate
to waste stuff too so I wanted to show you how you can re-use the cream. After my first egg, I mixed all of my cream
together making it soupy. In the pic it
looks grey but it was more like a pistachio color. Then I added more dots---this time only blue
and red---you can do so many combinations, the possibilities are endless with
this!
Then apply the same technique, SLICE!
This time after I stamped my paper I cut out letters instead of eggs.
I did not wear the plastic gloves and now I have fun multicolored hands. Happy shaving cream food
coloring tie-dyeing!