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Drawing Clouds in Shaving Cream with ‘Little Cloud’

Drawing Clouds in Shaving Cream with ‘Little Cloud’

February 13, 2017 By Katie Chiavarone 3 Comments

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Drawing in shaving cream is such a fun and classic preschool activity. What a great way to combine sensory play with learning. It is great for developing fine motor and pre-handwriting skills in kids. This week, with the Weekly Virtual Book Club, we read Little Cloud by Eric Carle {affiliate link}. My kids just adored this book, and really enjoyed drawing clouds in shaving cream along with the book.

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Drawing Clouds in Shaving Cream

This is a great sensory play activity for kids, and the perfect extension activity to the book, ‘Little Cloud’  by Eric Carle. While it looks like a messy activity, the shaving cream can be easily wiped off of a table surface, and even gives the table a bit of a cleaning.

What you Need:

-white foamy shaving cream (like Barbasol)

–The Little Cloud by Eric Carle (affiliate)

What to Do:

Read the book with your kids, discussing the pictures and the shapes that make up the illustrations.

 

My kids just adored this book, and really enjoyed drawing clouds in shaving cream along with the book.

 

Spread some shaving cream out on a flat surface such as a table or a tray.

 

My kids just adored this book, and really enjoyed drawing clouds in shaving cream along with the book.

 

Look at the illustrations in the book, and ask your children if they can try to draw the same shapes as the clouds in the book.

My kids just adored this book, and really enjoyed drawing clouds in shaving cream along with the book.

 

This is a great opportunity to work on fine motor skills and pre-handwriting. Copying the pictures in the book requires attention to detail and can help with early drawing skills.

 

My kids just adored this book, and really enjoyed drawing clouds in shaving cream along with the book.

 

My 1, 3 and 5 year olds all enjoyed this activity and had very different interpretations of the illustrations and abilities in copying the pictures, which I love seeing!

RELATED: 25 Shaving Cream Simple Setups for Play-Based Learning

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Rain Comes Down Song with Hand Movements from My Storytime Corner

Inkblot Cloud Shapes- Teach Beside Me

 

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