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Good, Clean Fun

// September 16th, 2011 // Children and Babies

Bear loves bath time.  I mean really, really loves bath time.  In fact, he may enjoy a good bath even more than I do, which is really saying something.  Of course, he dumps every single bath toy in the tub, so there’s hardly any room for him, but if we try to leave something out, he is . . . displeased.

I say all that to let you know that this project was completely unnecessary in our world.  Bear does not need any bath time bribery.  However, if your kids don’t share Bear’s affinity for a bath, you may just want to give it a try:

Shaving Cream Bath Tub Paint.

Bear has Crayola Bathtub Markers and Crayola Color Bath Dropz, but he’s never really shown huge interest in the markers.  I mean, he likes them, and he draws a little, but then he’s on to his eleventy thousand other toys.  (The Dropz, on the other hand, we use almost every time, which explains the orangish-tan color of the tub water in the pictures to follow.)   When I saw the idea for Shaving Cream Bath Tub Paint, I wasn’t sure it would be a huge hit.  Still, it was an easy enough project that I thought we’d give it a try.

To make Shaving Cream Bath Tub Paint,  simply squirt some shaving cream in a bowl, add a few drops of food coloring, and stir it up.  Give the kid a paint brush (or even better, different kinds of paint brushes) and let him or her go to work.  I think this would work well for finger painting, too, if your little ones are so inclined.  Bear, however, does not like his hands to be messy, and finger painting is a colossal fail at our house.

If I remember right, I used 2-3 drops of food coloring per shaving cream blob.  (A blob, as you know, is a precise mathematical measurement.)  The blue and green rinsed off the tub easily, but the pink took a little scrubbing, so be aware of that when you choose your colors.

Here’s Shaving Cream Bath Tub Paint in action:

All in all, this was a fun, easy addition to bath time.  I wouldn’t make my colors too vibrant, because even that pink was a little reluctant to come off.  When he painted his belly, though, everything rinsed right off.  I didn’t have to take a Smurf out in public.

Have you tried Shaving Cream Bath Tub Paint?  How did it work for you?