Easy Earth Day Shaving Cream Craft for Kids
Get ready to roll up your sleeves and add creativity to your Earth Day celebrations – your kids will love this Easy Earth Day painting project!
This DIY kid’s craft project is perfect for anyone looking to infuse their day with a playful twist while learning about Earth Day. You’ll love this marbled masterpiece’s simplicity and stunning results.
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Planet Earth Craft for Kids
Earth Day-themed crafts are a great way to make the conversation about conservation both educational and entertaining. This Earth Day craft uses shaving cream that sparks creativity and is easy to set up with materials already have at home.
This Earth Day shaving cream craft allows children to make their representation of the Earth using a playful mixture of shaving cream and food coloring.
The tactile experience of mixing colors and the sensory play in handling shaving cream make this an enjoyable educational activity for kids of various ages. Children emulate the Earth’s oceans and landmasses by manipulating the blue and green food dyes into swirls and patterns, crafting their personalized version of the planet on paper plates or sheets.
Supplies Needed to Make this Earth Day Shaving Cream Craft
- Small dining plate or standard white paper plate – These will serve as the canvas for the craft. The round shape is perfect for creating an Earth representation.
- Heart shape cookie cutter – or heart can be drawn freehand.
- Food Coloring – Green, Light Blue, and Dark Blue – Blue and green food coloring to represent the Earth’s land and water.
- Shaving cream – foam, NOT GEL – Standard foam-type shaving cream is the base for the paint marbling effect.
- Wood skewer or craft stick – The craft stick is used to mix the shaving cream and food coloring and remove excess shaving cream from the plates.
- Scissors
- Pencil
- Glue Stick
- Black or colored marker
- Small cooking sheet
- Piece of cardboard
- Wax parchment paper—Line a baking sheet or table for easy cleanup and spread the colored shaving cream.
The Earth Day Shaving Cream Craft is a fun way for kids to learn about our planet and celebrate Earth Day through art. Using these materials, they can create a beautiful marbled effect on the paper plates that looks like the Earth as seen from space.
Step-by-Step Instructions to Make this Earth Day Shaving Cream Craft:
Take a piece of card stock and a small dining plate or similar type of circle that can be traced. Trace the object to create the earth, then cut out the circle.
Trace a heart cookie cutter or free-hand draw a heart on the red construction paper.
Cut out the small heart.
Fill the cooking sheet with the foam shaving cream.
Speckle it with the blue and green food coloring.
Use a wooden skewer to swirl the food coloring around.
Place the circle of white card stock onto the prepared shaving cream and press down gently.
Carefully lift and place on wax paper to dry (don’t scrape the shaving cream off yet).
Continue until all the desired earths have been colored.
Let sit for 30 minutes, then take a piece of cardboard and scrape the excess shaving cream.
Carefully place the earth back onto the wax paper and let dry overnight.
Use the glue stick to stick the heart onto the middle of the earth.
Glue the Earth onto a colored paper and write “Happy Earth Day.”
Display and Enjoy! Children often learn best through hands-on activities. This craft allows them to visualize the planet and consider its vastness and beauty. It’s an excellent opportunity for educators and parents to debrief with children about what Earth Day represents and how the activity relates to our responsibility towards the planet.
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