Marbled Paper Shaving Cream

This is one of our all time favorite art activities.

Marbled paper shaving cream.

Use a craft stick to gently swirl the food coloring into the shaving cream. Take a straw and make swirl designs making sure theres still white showing. The shaving cream marbling methods works very similarly to the other paper marbling techniques methods described in the explore more section. Start by spraying shaving cream all over a cookie sheet.

How to make marbled paper easter eggs. 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. Right away this craft gets messy. Shaving cream card stock cut into egg shapes acrylic paint tray or box lid paintbrush toothpick or fork newspapers paper towels scraper tool.

Spray shaving cream onto a tray or box lid and have the kids spread it around. 2 use the back of a squeegee or you can use a ruler to spread the shaving cream out to a nice even layer. Add drops of food coloring on top. This marbled paper craft is one i learned was when i was taking my art education class back in college.

Alcohol inks or food dye. With the edge of a credit card scrape the shaving cream off the paper. Then take 3 4 colors of acrylic paint and put drops all over. Paper crafts are always fun but when i first heard about marbling with shaving cream and food colour i was skeptical.

To marble paper using the shaving cream method you will need. Place the cardstock into the shaving cream pressing gently. 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.

Place a piece of paper on top of the shaving cream and press it down so all of it touches. Shaving cream the cheap kind from the dollar store works great. Allow it to dry. Pull up the paper and scrape off the excess shaving cream with a ruler in one continuous movement to reveal the marbling.

Press a blank piece of paper into the shaving cream. Spray a layer of shaving cream on the bottom of a tray. 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.