Shona and her wee daughter Mila, aged 3, have been having lots of fun with shaving foam. They sent us a wee film to show just how much fun you can have with skooshy, slimy, silky shaving foam. Here’s Shona’s post:
Hi boys and girls I hope you’re all well. We are going to try some foam activities.
For the shaving foam & food colouring messy play activity this is so simple to set up, all you need is a tray (we used an oven roasting tray), shaving foam, food colouring ( I found the food colouring gels worked best) & a spoon to mix.
We squirted foaming shave gel onto the tray & Mila played with this for a bit we talked about the texture of the foam what it felt like, we then introduced food colouring. Mila squirted some of each into the tray then we got to mixing using the spoon. We talked about all the colours mixing into each other and colours that represent things such as blue like the sky. The shaving foam will eventually turn a grey colour but you can add more foam & food colouring. We had fun getting our hands messy.
We next made some foam paint, using shaving foam and food colouring again. You will need some paint brushes, paper and some paint pots (we used empty baked beans tubs- empty yogurt pots are good too) We added shaving foam into the five tubs, and then popped some food colouring in. We mixed in the colour and then painted some pictures. Mila decided she wanted to paint some flowers, and I painted a house, It was lots of fun, we spent ages painting lots of other pictures too. Maybe you could try some of these activities with shaving foam!
Elaine C’s post is another creative one – but this one involves numbers. It looks like a lot of fun too.
