Shaving Cream Pictures

Our room smelled really clean the days that the children did our shaving cream "pictures". The children were a bit dumbfounded initially when presented with the shaving cream. "We really get to play with it?", they wondered. It seemed like such an obviously fun idea - how could that be "art"? They wondered.

Well the first challenge when presented with shaving cream was that they had to learn to "spread" the shaving cream, make it "flat" like a paper. They used trowels to do so after finding out that their hands did not do the job properly. Using their hands became a "sticky situation" which meant that all the shaving cream stuck to their fingers. Once they were given the option to use the trowels to spread their shaving cream, the students found that there was quite a difference in how they could manipulate the shaving cream.

Once the shaving cream was spread, little fingers got to work, printing letters, numbers and names, thinking of pictures to make, objects to create in the shaving cream.

"How could we take a picture of something that would soon dissapte?" the children wondered. "Why Mrs. Stefani could take a picture of it!" they said. So of course, I clicked away when asked to document some of their creations for an eternity. Enjoy the creations!