We all know that the time after the holidays can be a bit difficult when it comes to waiting for supplies in the first deliveries. We had planned to do a whole week of creative activities in red – but no one had noticed that we had run out of red paint. We tried mixing something that looks sort of red from other paints but it just wasn’t convincing, so my colleague had a great idea. She suggested mixing shaving foam with red food colouring. The effect was amazing.
We used watercolour paper which is rather thick, so that the paper wouldn’t break. The children loved using their hands and brushes as well as different textured rollers with a huge bowl of shaving foam. We painted for almost 45 minutes and everyone joined in, just because it was different.
The beauty of the activity was that we could repaint on top of previously painted shaving foam to draw different patterns. The finished paintings had a great 3D effect and the patterns painted dried up clearly visible. The clean up was much easier because the shaving foam did not stain their hands like paint would have.
We will definitely repeat the activity next week.
