I find myself trying to find new and daring ways to entertain B these days. I know our precious “one on one” time is going to be limited very soon. I found this great little blog with a fun shaving activity while cruising on Pinterest and of course my inner child wanted in on the action!
Now, I sort of changed things to fit our situation. I found some super cheap shaving cream at the dollar store (for sensitive skin, just in case) and I thought maybe keeping it simple would be best for our first time.
I started out by laying down an old table cloth and a plastic storage bin. I usually spread out this table cloth when we do finger painting so B was excited to see it. I put a little shaving cream in a dish with dividers, added some food coloring and B was very intrigued. I set it on the floor and gave him a spoon to see what he’d do. He pushed the colored cream around a little bit and then looked on as I put a whole lot of shaving cream in the plastic bin. He squealed with delight and lifted his leg to get in the bin! I told him to hold off a minute as I wanted him to have the chance to squeeze it in his little hands or mix up the colors.
He took the spoon and painted with the colored cream in the bin and it was so pretty!
I then let him get in the bin and he couldn’t stop playing, laughing, and squealing with delight. He had almost an hour of fun before he tried to stand up and slip a bit.
The pictures and pure fun we both had was well worth the bit of mess and a bath.
have you checked out Play At Home Mom? http://playathomemom3.blogspot.com/
there’s TONS of cool activity ideas for kids like this one
I love this idea for kids who don’t still put things in their mouths (read: my kid). Hope to do this eventually. I also love the blanket that is clearly your project blanket underneath! Yay for no messes!
I wonder if they make tubs big enough for me, this looks like a blast! I wouldn’t mind doing it with buttercream frosting!
Awesome idea !! thanks
Oh how cute! I use to work delivering lunches for the Head Start Program and they would take shaving cream and place it on the table and the kids could rub it until it disappeared. They all loved it, playing in it, etc. I tried it with my grandson but he just doesn’t like his hands dirty so he really didn’t enjoy it at all but I’ll bet if it was in a tub like this, he’d love it.
Adorable! I should try this with my grandbaby ;)