Easter Awesome-ness!

Inside: Directions for shaving cream Easter eggs and bunny art.

Today we made shaving cream Easter Eggs!

These were easy, messy and FUN!

SHAVING CREAM EGGS:

1. Start with these supplies (shaving cream was $1.25 from the dollar store and I didn’t even use a full tin).

2. Squirt lots of shaving cream into the pan:

3. Then drip some food colouring into it:

4. Swirl it around (I used a paint brush):

5. Then lay your egg-shaped paper on top of the glorious swirls of colour:

6. Peel it off gently and check to make sure the entire surface is covered in shaving cream. If not, then press some more:

7.  At this point I had the kids put their eggs on the counter beside my sink. I gave them the ruler and had them scrape off the shaving cream.

The excess went into the sink. Some of them found it a bit hard to do, but it was easy enough for me to bop back and forth between the sink and the shaving cream action and help them out.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t get all the cream off the paper ~ the extra bits disappear as it dries. And they dry very quickly!

Here’s what they look like:

Easter art for grade 1. Painting bunnies and shaving cream eggs.Easter art for grade 1. Painting bunnies and shaving cream eggs.Easter art for grade 1. Painting bunnies and shaving cream eggs.

Aren’t they gorgeous?  This took us about 30 minutes with just me and 16 kids. I only used the one pan of shaving cream, although I did top it up after every 4 or 5 prints and we added more colour after every print and gave it another stir.

The kids did the pressing and peeling themselves and most (but not all) of the shaving cream scraping.

If you’re doing this with fewer kids then it would be easy enough to have them mix the cream and add their own colours. We just happened to be in a bit of a hurry, so I did that part for them.

EASTER BUNNY PAINTINGS:

1. Draw the bunny in pencil on a large piece of white paper (I modeled this on the board). The most important part here is drawing them BIG!

2. Outline the pencil drawing in black crayon.

3. Paint the bunnies with water colour pan paints (my students just use the cheap sets from Staples or Michaels).

4. I also asked them to paint in the background, completely! Totally! No white showing! Ha ha. Some of the kids just hate that part … not sure why 🙂

5. Staple the dry paintings to some blue paper for a frame and add some cute fluffy tails with makeup remover cotton puffs.

Easter art for grade 1. Painting bunnies and shaving cream eggs.

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