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Shaving Cream Bathtub Paint DIY

With the cold weather really coming in (don’t laugh, we have icicles!), we spend a lot more time coming up with creative ways to play. One thing I personally love doing is taking a bath and reading a book.  While my kids have inherited the bath part, they have not inherited the book part, so I try to give them something fun to do while in there!

So on a whim the other day with the regular old corn starch and water paints that I had given Phoenyx to play with in the tub, my eyes fell on the shaving cream on the counter.  I decided to mix up some of my husbands shaving cream with the food coloring on the next fill up and the result was a puffy fun paint that dissolved in the bathwater! This shaving cream bathtub paint gave us an hours worth of painting bath time enjoyment and the beauty is we can make more at any time!

And bonus is that it smells like my spouse….

Shaving Cream DIY Bath Paint

You need

  • Shaving Cream
  • Food coloring
  • muffin tin

step1

Fill up a muffin tin with a few squirts of shaving cream. I used white and blue and they both worked equally well and made bright colors, so no need to worry about the actual color of the cream. Use what you have!

 

Bath Tub Shaving Cream Paint, learn more on www.momdot.com for this and other kids activities

 

step2Add your food coloring to each shaving cream puff and stir!  I use the type of food coloring that comes in little mini bowls rather than liquid, but I imagine it works well either way.

 

 

Bath Tub Shaving Cream Paint, learn more on www.momdot.com for this and other kids crafting activities

Bath Tub Shaving Cream Paint, learn more on www.momdot.com for this and other kids crafting activities

Bath Tub Shaving Cream Paint, learn more on www.momdot.com for this and other kids crafting activities

 

step3 That’s it! No step 3….step 3 is add some paintbrushes, deliver to your bathtub, and PLAY!!!!!!!!! The best part is that if there is any left in your tins, just rinse down the drain.

 

Bath Tub Shaving Cream Paint, learn more on www.momdot.com for this and other kids crafting activities

 

For me???

Bath Tub Shaving Cream Paint, learn more on www.momdot.com for this and other kids crafting activities

 

 

 

My Picasso…

Bath Tub Shaving Cream Paint, learn more on www.momdot.com for this and other kids crafting activities

 

 

~Trisha

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Comments

  8. My kids struggle with bathtime. I think making it fun with something like this would be helpful. Where do you buy your food coloring in jars? That would save me a lot of trouble in a lot of different things I do.

  10. What a fun idea. I would have never thought of using something like shaving cream and food coloring. When my girls were little, we bought stuff intended for the bathtub and it ended up staining! I didn’t use colored stuff much after that. You’re so creative!

  16. I love this idea, Trish! It’s SO perfect for kids! Especially mine who literally want to stay in the water until it freezes over! 🙂

  18. I’ve wanted to make this for a long time because my daughter loves bath time but I keep worrying about the foodcoloring, well, coloring her. It doesn’t, right?

  20. They are both so cute! I have done this with my kids before and it cleans up so much better than the store bought ‘bathtub paint’.

  21. I’ve seen this mentioned a time or two across the net, but it’s nice seeing your kids having fun using it. I know mine would have a field day doing it that’s for sure. Especially my two youngest kids who always have a pencil and paper in their hands it seems drawing something.

  25. Okay, gotta know, where do you buy actual shaving cream? I haven’t seen that stuff in forever. All I can find around here is the shave gel (which I hate).