Shaving Cream Sensory Play Ideas - The Inspired Treehouse (2024)

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What are the learning outcomes of shaving foam? ›

Shaving cream is a relatively mess-free way to play with textures! It can also help kids develop fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination by picking up, moving, and drawing with their fingers in the shaving cream. You can draw shapes, simple figures, or letters to engage your child in more learning activities.

This sensory foam is so easy to make and is a great taste safe alternative to shaving cream so perfect for little ones.

Both shaving foam and shaving cream are great to use for all sorts of fun kids activities and messy play ideas for toddlers and preschoolers.

Squirt shaving cream on a tray. Using premade or teacher-made cards, place letter cards near the tray. In small groups, model how to write a letter. Then, using your hand, rub the shaving cream to erase the letter.

Writing and Drawing with Shaving Cream

Squeeze a large amount of shaving cream on the surface and encourage your children to draw shapes, letters, or just smoosh the cream between their fingers. This activity can be done with shaving cream in a large plastic bag if you would like to avoid the mess!

Keep the can out of reach of children. When exploring shaving cream on a table or in the sensory tub the adult is the dispenser of the cream, make sure you provide enough for exploration and when the children are finished exploring, the can gets put back in the cupboard. If this is the compromise, take it.

Texture Exploration: Foam can have various textures, from soft and fluffy to dense and squishy. Children can explore these textures using their hands, fingers, or even their whole bodies, enhancing their tactile sensory experiences.

The purpose of a shaving cream, foam or gel is to create a protective barrier of lather over hair to make them soft before running a metal razor through them. They minimise friction on the face, so the blades glide smoothly without causing any nicks, cuts and bumps.

It means to follow the material safety data sheets (MSDS) for shaving cream. Don't let your toddlers eat it like fluffy magic snow, and be careful they don't touch their eyes — I put goggles on my kids when we played with it. (I think I should've worn them changing my son's diaper.

Why is shaving cream good for sensory? ›

Sensory Exploration:

Shaving cream is a unique texture that can provide children with a sensory experience that is both tactile and visual. This type of sensory play can be particularly beneficial for children who have sensory processing difficulties such as tactile defensiveness and/or sensory aversions.

Shaving Cream Sensory Activity Tray

Just spray the shaving cream in tray, smoothen it out and put few drops of food coloring. Then I asked my daughter to mix and explore using a popsicle stick but after sometime she wanted to put her hands in…. Absolute messy funtime!!

Cover the fabric you want to clean in a layer of shaving foam - any brand will do as long as it's white. Leave it to sit on the sofa for at least 20 minutes or up to an hour for tougher marks. Use a damp cloth to wipe away the foam, scrubbing any stubborn stains as you go.

Clear the work tables or student desks, and have children don a paint shirt. Shake up a can of shaving cream (they sell a variety at The Dollar Store) and squirt a few big dollops in front of each child's place. The whole key to not making a mess is to give them just enough to make a writing board.

It continues to say that with proper supervision (meaning an adult is within an arms reach of the child) you can use items that “are not recommended for children under the age of 3” unless it specifically says “toxic” on the label. Which again, shaving cream does not.