Shaving Cream Prints

Supplies   

Shaving Cream

Food Coloring 

Skewer or Toothpick

Ruler

Paper

This is one of my favorite printmaking methods.  The supplies can be found in most homes and the prints are simple and bright. 

Steps

1.  Spray out enough shaving cream to be at least ¼ inch thick and the size of the print you   

     are making

2.  Spread it smooth with your ruler or anything with a straight edge 

3.   Drop in your food coloring (Watch the little ones to make sure they don’t use the whole 

      bottle of food coloring, maybe give them a range like  “more than two drops but not more 

      than ten”)  (You may want to wear gloves for this part)

4.   Use a toothpick or skewer and swirl the food coloring into the shaving cream.  (Keep the 

      skewer at a 90 degree angle to keep if from mixing the shaving cream instead of swirling

      the color)

5.   Lay a piece of paper on top of the shaving cream, lightly pressing it down so the color is      

       absorbed into the paper 

6.   Take the paper of and scrape off the remaining shaving cream with a clean ruler.    

       (Scrape into the color so you don’t drag it across your white areas)

  

Now EXPERIMENT

• Use a stencil to print only the areas you choose
• Use the ruler to smooth the color
• Sculpt the extra shaving cream



1. Spray shaving cream

• *Students need only one sheet of shaving cream, 
• they can keep adding more color to it

2. Spread Shaving Cream smooth with ruler

3. Drop in food coloring

4. Swirl food coloring with toothpick or smooth it with ruler (this was smoothed with a ruler)

5. Lay stencil on shaving cream, and press paper on top, then remove paper

6. Scrape away the shaving cream