Make It Monday: Shaving Cream Leaves

I've wanted to do shaving cream painting with the kids for a while now. The beautiful colors of autumn leaves gave us the perfect opportunity to grab some supplies and make a mess.

Who cares that it's 70 degrees out and the kids asked if it's still summer.

Bring on the fall!

 Squirt shaving cream into a shallow dish.

 Spread it around to make it as smooth as possible.

Squirt paint in various fall colors onto the shaving cream and gently swirl it around.

Note to self: Buy orange paint!

Press a cardstock leaf lightly on the mixture.

 Remove the leaf and set aside for a few minutes.

Repeat.

Repeat.

Repeat until you run out of leaves.

 Scrape off the shaving cream leaving the paint behind.

This step is slightly messy.

Ok, this step is extremely messy. But totally worth it.

I realized that the more I scraped the popsicle stick across the leaf, the more the paint colors spread and blended. It would have been easier to set the leaf down and use a large piece of cardboard to scrap off the shaving cream in one swoop.

And the finished product!

I probably should have put the leaves up and taken a picture before it got dark, but you know, life happens.

Jake thinks we need to make more for the window. There are still a few empty spaces.

I'm sure we'll be shaving cream painting again. What I'm not sure of is whether they had more fun painting or more fun taking a shaving cream bath afterwards.