Monday, November 2, 2015

Shaving Cream Christmas Ornaments

Title of Lesson: Shaving Cream Christmas Ornaments (For Winter Extravaganza)

Medium: Paint, Shaving Cream, Paper

Reason for Lesson: Creating art for the Winter Extravaganza, and learning about how different mediums work…the shaving cream carries the paint to the paper, but doesn’t soak into the paper so it can be scraped away, leaving only the paint behind!

Prep Time: Materials will be in the 2nd grade box. The docent will do step 1-3 in a few cardboard boxes and then the students will bring their cut-out ornament to dip in the shaving cream.

Preparation prior to lesson: gathering supplies, printing ornament on paper for students to cut out.

Class Time: 30 minutes

Materials: Shaving cream (it must be white), Acrylic paint in several colors, Toothpicks, Old loyalty card (or something else you can use as a scraper), White cardstock shaped ornaments, Brown cardboard box (to put the shaving cream in)

Step by Step Instructions:
1.       Start by squirting your shaving cream into your brown cardboard box. Raileigh had fun playing in it for a bit before we moved onto the next steps. 

1.       Now, take your acrylic paint and squirt lines of it on top of the shaving cream. We chose to go with a rainbow of colors.  However, you can do only warm or cool colors, or even colors to fit with a certain holiday. 

Take your toothpick and swirl the paint around a bit. It's going to begin to look slightly marbled. You can "marble" it as little or as much as you'd like

It is time for the fun to begin! Take a piece of your cardstock and gently press it into the shaving cream and paint. Make sure to press all of the sides down

 Carefully remove your cardstock from the shaving cream. It should have a mixture of shaving cream and paint stuck to it.

2.       Take your "scraper" and scrape away the shaving cream. The paint stays behind, leaving a lovely marbled painted look on your paper.

3.       Repeat several times. Your shaving cream and paint will eventually get kind of muddled. However, we were able to do this 10-12 times easily before that began to happen. 

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