Shaving Cream Bath Paint

This was so much fun!  We tried it once and it's become a nightly staple.  Just mix some shaving cream with a few drops of food coloring and you have "bath paint".  NOTE:  The paint doesn't stain at all!  We've used it many times and there is no residual color at all.  (Just be careful not to get it in your eyes). 




Materials:

*Shaving Cream (non-menthol:  we love to use the creams marketed towards women because they make the paints smell yummy too!)

*Food Coloring

*Paint brushes (or fingers, or toes!)




Extension Ideas  (because we've done this MANY times by now!):


*Use the paint to practice writing/identifying letters.


*Practice the terms light and dark in reference to color.  "Tonight we're going to make light green and dark green."


*Allow the kiddos to explore combining colors to create new ones.


*Make two colors.  Let the adult write a word and the kiddo can trace the letters.  


*It's time for BBQs and that makes for inexpensive sauce brushes in the outdoor section of the market.  These have large, long handles that make it easy for little hands hang on to them.  We love to use these as paint brushes in the bath and with our other art projects!

This quickly became a "body art" project!