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Shaving Cream Marbling Autumn Leaves

October 9, 2012 by Anna Ranson

Create some beautiful Autumnal leaves using a simple marbling technique with shaving cream, paint and glitter! Beautiful for creating Fall displays at home or in the classroom!It’s been a long time since we first had a go at shaving cream marbling! It’s such a wonderful combination of sensory, art and colour exploration and is the perfect introduction to the marbling technique for young children. The results are always beautiful and can be turned into anything you like, from wrapping paper, to gift cards or seasonal garlands.

First, spray a can of economy shaving cream into a shallow tray and spread it out. Squeeze yellow and red paint over the top and mix it in using a paintbrush. Pop did this herself, then sprinkled plenty of gold glitter over the top!

We then laid pieces of paper onto the top of the foam and carefully lifted them off again. We used a piece of scrap card to scrape off the excess shaving cream and set them to dry. The scraping step is important or else the paper becomes logged with moisture and won’t dry properly. Even with scraping, the marbled effect seems to stay on the paper really well!

It feels absolutely wonderful and is well worth a squidge while waiting for the finished papers to dry out! Playing with shaving cream is a fantastic sensory experience by itself, as well as being a marvellous medium for practising mark-making and letter formation too!
 Pop loved drawing in the leftover shaving cream after we had lifted the prints and you could probably lift off successful prints from marks and drawings that are made too, in much the same way as we made these Van Gogh style finger paint prints recently.
When the papers were dry I cut out lots of leaf shapes and we stuck them on the wall to look like they were falling down from a tree. Then we read one of our favourite Lois Ehert books, Red Lead, Yellow Leaf and used it as a discussion starter about the Autumn season, why leaves change colours and what animals do when the weather gets colder.
Shaving cream marbling autumn leaves

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This activity is packed with learning opportunities! Including:
colour mixing, creativity, print-making, sensory investigation, mark-making, playful literacy, understanding changes in the seasons, weather and nature.
Cakie: 4.1
Pop: 2. 6
Bean: 7 months
 
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Filed Under: Age, Art, Art, Art and Craft, Colour Mixing, Craft, Create, Creativity, Fall, Glitter, Learn, Leaves, Marbling, Messy Play, Nature, Paint, Preschooler, Printing, School Age, Science, Sensory, Shaving Cream, Toddler Tagged With: Autumn, Fall, Sensory Play

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Comments

  1. Megan @ Coffee Cups and Crayons says

    October 9, 2012 at 6:53 pm

    The leaves are gorgeous! We love shaving cream painting too!

    • Anna Ranson says

      October 9, 2012 at 10:10 pm

      thank you Megan!

  2. Julie @ Creekside Learning says

    October 9, 2012 at 10:40 pm

    Anna, I love this! I’m going to do this with my preschool book club next week. We are reading a book about autumn leaves and this is the perfect project to go along with it. Thank you!

    • Anna Ranson says

      October 9, 2012 at 10:52 pm

      Perfect! So glad to give you an idea, you creative lady you! 🙂

  3. Emma @mummymummymum says

    October 10, 2012 at 12:45 pm

    I LOVE this Anna 🙂

  4. School Sparks Renee says

    October 11, 2012 at 5:32 am

    Using shaving cream as a vehicle for the marbling is a fantastic idea. I’ll try this soon. I bet your room smelled great! 🙂 Renee

  5. RedTedArt says

    October 11, 2012 at 7:50 pm

    Beautiful. I have never really wanted to give shaving foam a go until now!!

    Thanks for sharing on Kids Get Crafty!

    Maggy

  6. Anonymous says

    October 16, 2012 at 9:02 pm

    I love this Blog! Your ideas are amazing and so easy to do. Im also an early years teacher and mum of a two year old. Since having my daughther I have fallen in love with the early years and play all over again mainly due to your wonderful website and inspiring ideas. Thank you

  7. Cynthia at Flotsam of the Mind says

    October 23, 2012 at 3:53 pm

    Thank you for this great tutorial. My kids (ages 5 and 8) and I did this and had a ball. Our results are here: http://www.flotsamofthemind.com/2012/10/shaving-cream-marbled-art.html.

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