More Shaving Cream and Paint – Art Playgroup Friday

Since we weren’t sick and alone this week we did shaving cream and paint again, this time with all our friends. We managed to use up the rest of the shaving cream I’d bought to make messes with at Rebecca’s messy art birthday, but then didn’t use because there were too many kids who were young enough to think eating it was a good idea.

In terms of preschool art, I don’t think there is anything messier than giving kids bottles of shaving cream to empty and bottles of paint to pour all over it. They mash it around, clap their hands together and spray it everywhere, smear it all over each other, and run around in circles screaming. Okay, they do that last part no matter what art media we’re working with, but they fling paint and shaving cream around the yard when we use that. Lots of fun, lots of squishy tactile experimentation. And then they get hosed off, and all three sets of clothes they went through get dumped immediately in the washer, along with what *you* were wearing!