Shaving Cream Eggs for Easter Tree

A messy messy activity

ending with a beautiful craft for Easter

Start by adding shaving cream to a pan.

[Henry had troubles pushing it hard enough to make it come out.]

Add food coloring.

Swirl the colors around.

Swirl some more

[and end up with a not so pretty color]

Build towers.

Add utensils.

[Henry used a fork and knife for creating.]

Once Henry was about to lose interest.

We added more food coloring.

This time, I added the instruction of

only using one finger to swirl the color.

Once the cream was swirled nicely with color,

we began making our prints!

I have lots of scrap pieces of scrapbook paper.

I picked papers with a variety of colors and textures.

1. Press paper into the shaving cream mixture.
2. Scrape the shaving cream off the paper using a squeegee.
   [Henry couldn't press the scraper hard enough to get a clean swipe, so I had to do another pass. It should be free of shaving cream. You could probably just scrape it off with your hand or towel if you don't have a squeegee.]
3. Add glitter if you'd like. [Henry's likes!]

Here's our pretty swirly papers waiting to dry.

Be sure to check out the mess that's been made.

After a quick clothes change,

the clean up was just as fun!

[I really thought the shaving cream would stick around in the water longer than it did.]

Once the papers dried, I cut out egg shapes.

I cut strips of yarn.

[Henry tried to do the cutting, but his scissors didn't make it easy to do it.]

On the back of each egg,

Henry used a sticker to attach the yarn ends.

Then Henry decorated our tree!

[check out our Valentine Countdown Tree to see how we made the tree.]

[The glitter stuck better on the textured papers.]

I love the differences in each egg.

We made way too many eggs, 

The rest Henry put in his basket.

He also is baking them in his oven.

[Something he says Dad does, too.]

Updated to add:

Shortly after I posted this fun activity/craft - so did Little Wonders' Days! We both had the same idea for a fun Easter craft - she turned her eggs into Easter Cards! Go take a look HERE.

- Henry is 3 years -