Make Your Own Foamy Paint!

During February vacation, I was looking for some easy to do craft ideas for Aidan and I to have some fun with.  We planned on tackling making our own dish soap and laundry detergent as part of our experiments, but I figured something easy and artistic for Aidan would be fun too!  We have a book called The Ultimate Book of Kid Concoctions .  It is a really cool book with a ton of fun paints, doughs, slime and other fun kid approved concoctions to make and enjoy!  We decided to make Foamy Paint on page 36. 

The Great thing about the Kid Concoctions book, is that the recipes are created with things you would usually find at home, so no last minute running around for ingredients (most of the time).  Aidan loves any chance he can to mix or create so he was super-excited to make some new paints! 

All you need to make foamy paint is three things

1. a muffin tin or ice cube tray (we used the ice cube tray but I think a muffin tin would be great!)






2. one can white shaving cream. ( here you get a lot of bang for   your buck so you can borrow some of dad's if that's what he uses, you only use a little.)

3. food coloring

How to Concoct:

Place a small dab of shaving cream into each ice cube tray or muffin tin.

Add 1-2 drops of food coloring to each section and stir with a spoon. 

Aidan and I played around with the amount of food coloring and mixed colors and tried to guess what we would get.  He had a lot of fun with this part.  The book suggests using foamy paint to make 3d sculptures.  A snowman is shown in the book.  We used q-tips, one in each ice cube holder to paint onto our card-stock.  It was a lot of fun!

Our Foamy Paint!

 Aidan enjoyed testing out the different colors and ways to combine them on his pictures!

 Instead of two thumbs up he gave me a peace sign and a big smile.  We will probably make this again, it's a great rainy day activity and clean up was simple.  We have some really cool pictures Aidan made hanging around the house now.

 My boy making a house and grass!  It came out really good when it was done!

Mama's fun painting using foamy paint!  It was fun to use, and the colors vibrant.  It took about 5 minutes to make, and entertained Aidan for an hour or so!  We are going to try it again when my niece is visiting.  She is almost three!

The author suggests using the paint to paint pictures safely on bodies.  I wish I did that with Aidan with the leftovers, before bath time!  Let me know if you try it and how your little ones like it!  I hope you enjoy it as much as we do!