Shaving cream Magic

So I am the art coordinator at my kid's elementary school which means that without volunteers we would have no art program in our local school due to budget cuts. Teaching art to kids is one of the most rewarding and fun thing I have ever done. This year I have 2 kindergarten classes, 1 second grade class, and 1 fourth grade class.

I just wanted to share the shaving cream art projects we made in the 2nd and 4th grade classes this week.

The decorated Christmas trees are the 2nd grader's work.

The silhouettes are the 4th grader's work.

The process is so simple fill the bottom of a pan with cheap shaving cream, add liquid water colour, each child chose 3 colours to add, swirl, lay the paper on the cream and press down, remove the paper and scrape the cream off. I also changed the cream completely one time with a class of 24 kids and added a bit more as needed throughout.

The colours are amazing and the kids love to see what it looks like as they scrape the cream off, it reminds me of the northern lights. They were hung in the hallway at the school and I know everyone passing by them will be wondering just how did they do that?

On the home front, today is the 1st day of winter break for the kids, which 1st meant cleaning out their rooms to give them space to play and 2nd listening to the Disney music CD I bought in Disneyland while taking a break from Hungry Hungry Hippos.

Hoping everyone has a great Winter Holiday.