Shaving Cream Ice Cream

Pulled this idea from "Growing a Jeweled Rose" here.  I didn't step it up as top notch as she does but it was still great nonetheless.  This is a great summer activity that would be super fun outside but we decided to stay indoors with our activity today and just put it all on a wipe off mat.  

Just spray some shaving cream (I always keep a supply of mens shaving cream handy in our craft closet) into a tub and add any color food coloring you like then place it in the freezer for a few hours.  You can add extracts of your choice too if you would like it to have a yummy smell.  When it freezes it has a perfect texture almost like real ice cream!  It even looks tasty so if you have really little ones, make sure they are aware that it is indeed pretend! 

 We added some of our "jewel treasures" we had lying around for decorating excitement.  

My Big K loves to get super messy so we ended up having to lose the dress up dress to get all into it.  

What's ice cream without sprinkles?!

Let your kids get all into it and make a mess!  Talk about the different ways it feels...cold, squishy.  Your kids will have a blast and you will too!

Shaving Cream Eggs

Anytime shaving cream is involved, we are having fun!  

All you need is some shaving cream, food colors, something to stir with, a container to put it all in, and paper cut out of whatever shape you please.  We chose to do eggs for Easter.

Squirt some shaving cream all over a container

Drop in some food coloring of different colors

Give it a little stir (I turned away for a minute and Big K got it a little more "stirred" than it was supposed to be)  You don't want to stir it too much or like you see in ours, the green (or whatever other color you've used that is most powerful) will take over.  You just want the colors a teeny bit swirled.

Press the paper down into the shaving cream.  Then lay them out to dry.  Once they have dried, scrape the excess cream off and you have a beautiful piece of art.

We of course ended up playing in all the shaving cream and getting incredibly messy when we were done.

The eggs hanging in the window.  Sorry you can't actually see them.