Marbled Paper Shaving Cream

Paper crafts are always fun but when i first heard about marbling with shaving cream and food colour i was skeptical.

Marbled paper shaving cream.

How to make marbled paper easter eggs. 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. Place a piece of paper on top of the shaving cream and press it down so all of it touches. With the edge of a credit card scrape the shaving cream off the paper.

Shaving cream is made of a mixture of soap and water with a gas that can turn liquid into foam when you spray it out of the bottle. To marble paper using the shaving cream method you will need. This marbled paper craft is one i learned was when i was taking my art education class back in college. Right away this craft gets messy.

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. Spray shaving cream onto a tray or box lid and have the kids spread it around. Paper i like paper with a little bit of texture such as cheap construction paper but any paper including copy paper will work great. Shaving cream the cheap kind from the dollar store works great.

Press a blank piece of paper into the shaving cream. Place the cardstock into the shaving cream pressing gently. Spray a layer of shaving cream on the bottom of a tray. Pull up the paper and scrape off the excess shaving cream with a ruler in one continuous movement to reveal the marbling.

Then take 3 4 colors of acrylic paint and put drops all over. Add drops of food coloring on top. Alcohol inks or food dye. This is one of our all time favorite art activities.

2 use the back of a squeegee or you can use a ruler to spread the shaving cream out to a nice even layer. Use a craft stick to gently swirl the food coloring into the shaving cream. The shaving cream marbling methods works very similarly to the other paper marbling techniques methods described in the explore more section. 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.

Start by spraying shaving cream all over a cookie sheet. Take a straw and make swirl designs making sure theres still white showing. The best easiest and cheapest diy marbled paper is done with shaving cream marbling.