Are you looking for a fun, simple way to keep your toddler engaged for the afternoon? Shaving cream activities for toddlers are a fun way to do it! Let’s explore 43 shaving cream activities for toddlers that you can’t miss.
Get ready for hours of endless fun!
Favorite Shaving Cream Activities For Toddlers
If you are familiar with sensory bins, then you probably already know why shaving foam is one of the best items to use for play and learning. It’s inexpensive and many of us already have it at hand.
Overall, shaving cream activities offer a sensory experience that helps enhance our toddlers’ little hands’ fine motor skills. Plus, you can combine it with other materials for different textures. Some great ideas are food coloring, water beads, a piece of paper, bathtub paint, and more.
Let’s get started!
1. Summer Fun With Shaving Cream
This is one of our favorite shaving cream activities for some summer outdoor fun. All you need is a tarp, balloons, shaving cream, and goggles – now just watch your little one have their best day ever!
This summer outdoor activity with shaving cream is perfect for toddlers and older kids too.
2. Painting with Shaving Cream: Frugal Crafting
Toddlers and preschoolers that love painting, they will love using shaving cream paint to decorate a piece of paper, cardboard, or anything they can think of. When colors are mixed with shaving cream, they will look more neon and bright.
3. Homemade Shaving Cream
Did you know you can make your own homemade shaving cream with all-natural ingredients? Here is a recipe you can try today.
This cream leaves your skin smooth and moisturized.
4. Painting Play in the Bathtub
Art is at its best when it’s big, messy, and colorful! This bathtub shaving cream paint activity is perfect toddlers and older kids too.
Art and shaving cream go well together!
5. Shaving Cream and Water Bead Cupcakes
This activity doubles as a sensory material too! Combining shaving cream and yummy scents make the best pretend cupcakes. From Mess For Less.
This activity provides a great sensory experience for kids
6. Fluffy Slime Recipe
What kid doesn’t love slime? It’s so fun to squish and stretch! Today we are learning how to make fluffy slime with saline solution – in just 5 minutes. From Little Bins for Little Hands.
Your little one will love playing with this fluffy slime!
7. 3 Ingredient DIY Foam Paint
Making foam paint with shaving cream is as easy as it gets – you just need to get some school glue and food coloring. Let’s make some art! From Dabbles & Babbles.
This DIY foam paint is so much fun!
8. Shaving Cream and Water Beads Sensory Bin
Another activity with shaving cream and water beads from Parenting Chaos to create a fun sensory bin experiment.
This activity is guaranteed to be a big hit with the toddlers.
9. The Best Fluffy Slime Recipe
With just 4 ingredients, you can make the best fluffy slime recipe! You’ve got to try it. From The Soccer Mom Blog.
This quick fluffy slime recipe is very easy and fun to make.
10. Shaving Cream Rain Clouds
A fun experiments from One Little Project kids can do themselves that is also very beautiful. It’s also a fun way to explain how storms and clouds work.
Isn’t this experiment so beautiful?
11. Shaving Cream Cupcakes
These pretend cupcakes from Smart School House are incredibly cute and little kids will love playing with it. This activity is best for preschool aged kiddos.
They may look tasty but remember not to eat them!
12. How to Dye Easter Eggs with Shaving Cream
This dye Easter eggs with shaving cream experiment is fun, easy, and educational. It will allow your toddler or preschooler to learn about science while being creative. From Sixth Bloom.
A fun and creative science activity!
13. Shaving Cream Marbled Hearts for Valentine’s Day
This shaving cream marble hearts from Busy Toddler is a super cool art project that will wow your little ones.
Coolest and prettiest craft ever!
14. Simple Shaving Cream Sensory Bin
This sensory play activity for toddlers from My Bored Toddler is a very simple shaving cream sensory bin that only takes minutes to set up, and it is heaps of fun.
Little ones LOVE messy fun!
15. Homemade Puffy Paint Recipe with Shaving Cream
Want to learn how to make a DIY shaving cream puffy paint? Parenting Chaos has a simple recipe you can try in less than 5 minutes and will keep your toddler or kindergartener entertained for hours.
Messy finger painting art has never been so much fun before.
16. Shaving Cream Dyed Easter Eggs
An alternative way to dye this year’s Easter eggs which is more fun than just painting over them. From Crafty Morning.
Each egg will have a different unique pattern.
17. Water Bead and Shaving Cream Sensory Activity
Although a bit messy, this water bead and shaving cream sensory bin is totally worth it and so much fun. There are so many different ways to play with it! From Little Learning Club.
Water beads and shaving cream go so well together!
18. Easy Shaving Cream Sensory Bin
A cheap and shaving cream play bin that also doubles as sensory play! Toddlers will love this activity as it also looks very cool. From Twin Talk Blog.
Perfect messy fun for toddlers!
19. Shaving Cream Butterfly Craft
This shaving cream craft from 123 Homeschool 4 Me is super simple to make, and the result is a beautiful butterfly craft!
Aren’t these butterflies so beautiful?
20. Water Beads and Shaving Cream on the Light Table
This water beads and shaving cream light table from Parenting Chaos play provides a great fine motor challenge and even has a bit of scientific exploration into it.
We love visual activities like this one!
21. Shaving Cream Twister
Twister is a family game we all know, but this version has some extra fun – shaving cream! It’s super easy to set up and perfect for parties or family events. From Lou Lou Girls.
You’re gonna have an awesome time!
22. Shapes and Shaving Cream
Kids of all ages will have a blast when they combine shapes and shaving cream, while encouraging creativity. From Days with Grey.
This shaving cream activity gets toddlers and preschoolers thinking.
23. Easy Shaving Cream Bath Paint
This easy shaving cream bath paint from The Craft at Home Family is a great way to make bath time more fun for your little ones, with just two ingredients.
Enjoy this simple but fun activity.
24. Colored Shaving Cream Bath Play for Toddlers
Another bath activity for toddlers using colored shaving cream. This is one of the easiest ways to learn about colors while making bath time exciting. From My Bored Toddler.
Just gather a few supplies and head to the bathroom!
25. Shaving Cream Sea Foam Sensory Bin
This shaving cream sea foam sensory bin from Happy Toddler Play Time is a fun activity for kids of all ages. The texture is amazing, it’s cheap to get, and is very easy to clean up.
It’s time to get some toys out for this activity!
26. Homemade Bath Paint with Shaving Cream
Did you know you can make homemade non-toxic shaving cream bath paint for your toddler? With only 2 ingredients! From One Beautiful Home Blog.
Doesn’t this look so much fun?
27. Shaving Cream Thunderstorms
Capturing Parenthood created a fun way to learn about storms with just some ingredients that you probably already own. Kids of all ages will be amazed by this project!
Children will be so impressed!
28. DIY Tinkerbell-Inspired Shaving Cream Art
Let’s create fairy dust sprinkles with shaving cream! Your kiddo will feel like they’re on a Disney movie. From Momtastic.
Such a beautiful shaving cream art!
29. Sticky Shaving Cream Sensory Play
Fantastic Fun & Learning came up with a fun play combining shaving cream and contact paper – preschoolers and kindergarteners can also make some art with it while toddlers might have fun just playing with it.
There are endless ways to play with this sensory activity.
30. Shaving Cream Painted Fall Leaves
Who knew you could paint leaves with shaving cream?! The instructions are easy enough for toddlers and kindergarteners to follow, so give it a try! From Toddler At Play.
It’s time to collect some fall leaves!
31. How To Make Shaving Cream Rain
Mom Wife Busy Life shared a fun way to use shaving cream to make a science experiment with just 4 ingredients. We recommend using tons of different colors!
You can use just blue, but more colors will make it more fun.
32. Frozen Shaving Cream Ocean Sensory Play
This frozen shaving cream ocean sensory play is great for toddlers, preschoolers, and older kids to have fun while learning about different textures. From Hello Wonderful.
Such a fun way to to play with shaving cream.
33. Rainbow Marbled Butterfly Pasta Art
You can make these rainbow butterfly craft with shaving cream from Hello Wonderful as a fun spring craft or just as room decoration.
Look at these gorgeous rainbow marbled butterflies!
34. Shaving Cream Marbled Earth Day Craft
Shaving cream marbled Earth day is a simple and easy art project that will excite kids of all ages, but especially little ones. Plus, it celebrates Earth Day! From Crafty Morning.
Isn’t this craft just absolutely beautiful?
35. 3 Ingredient DIY Puffy Paint
Puffy paint is one of the best and easiest DIY projects to do with your kids, and we love that this one uses common ingredients everyone has at home, and it’s easy enough for kids to mix up by themselves. From Eze Breezy.
There are so many cute figures you can do with this puffy paint!
36. Rainbow Foam Dough
This soft, silky, and modable shaving cream play dough recipe from Natural Beach Living will have toddlers having fun for hours on end.
Let’s get our hands a bit dirty to make this homemade play dough.
37. Easy Sensory Play – Shaving Cream and Bubble Wrap.
Using senses through play, like this easy sensory activity from Picklebums is a great way to help your child to use their imagination and it also promotes creative thinking.
A very easy and quick sensory play that children will love.
38. Toddler Rainbow Sensory Play
Got a toddler that loves rainbows? We love them too! Let’s make our own rainbow sensory play – with fluffy clouds and all. From Fun At Home With Kids.
The clouds will for sure be a success with little ones!
39. How to Make DIY Marbled Paper the Easy Way
This marbling technique is one of the easiest and cheapest DIY we know about. It’s perfect for art activities with little ones! From The Artful Parent.
Children who are into art will enjoy this activity more.
40. Marbleized Peacock
This shaving cream marbleized peacock is a great activity for the little artist at home, although younger ones might need some adult help. From Smart Class.
Another beautiful art activity for kids.
41. Shaving Cream Fireworks
These shaving cream fireworks from I can Teach my Child! are both fun to make and to display, and it’s perfect for toddlers and preschoolers.
Each page will be different and unique!
42. Shaving Cream Marbled Rainbows
Shaving cream and rainbows go so well together! That’s why we know this activity from The Chocolate Muffin Tree will be a success with your kiddo.
We love activities that promote creativity, just like this marble rainbow play.
43. Bath Paints Using Only 2 Ingredients
This bath paints activity from Laughing Kids Learn encourages creativity, stimulate the senses, and helps children learn about colors, all through play.
Let’s make some easy art together!
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Which shaving cream activity for toddlers was your favorite?!
