Blog Post I Feb. 1st 2019
In this class session, we taught the students how to make shaving cream prints.
This is a fun process where you can drop food coloring into a flat, thick layer of shaving cream and create patterns with the color by swirling it around with a pencil or another similarly shaped object. After the pattern is created, you can set a piece of white printer paper on top of the shaving cream, pat it down a bit, then lift up the paper to see your new print!
With this project, these students can learn how to mix colors and transfer them from shaving cream to the paper. And they can work on fine motor skills such as smoothing out the shaving cream with a ruler and making patterns with a thin tool.
The main takeaway of this class was to see how colors can mix and blend to create new colors and to learn how they can be transferred from one material to another.
Through this process, the students also learn that materials have more uses than what the material is initially intended for. The shaving cream’s original purpose was not to make color prints. But it works, so we use it. It’s a quirky demonstration of how there are many ways to do something and many ways to use something.
The objective of the class was for the students to understand how color can be added, strengthened, weakened, and mixed – and then transferred. The shaving cream was a tool but was also like adding white to a color. The food coloring used needed to be added to strengthen a color. And multiple colors added to the shaving cream were eventually mixed.
The key skills acquired through this was adding and mixing colors to create an image or pattern and being physically able to do so.
This is a fun process where you can drop food coloring into a flat, thick layer of shaving cream and create patterns with the color by swirling it around with a pencil or another similarly shaped object. After the pattern is created, you can set a piece of white printer paper on top of the shaving cream, pat it down a bit, then lift up the paper to see your new print!
With this project, these students can learn how to mix colors and transfer them from shaving cream to the paper. And they can work on fine motor skills such as smoothing out the shaving cream with a ruler and making patterns with a thin tool.
The main takeaway of this class was to see how colors can mix and blend to create new colors and to learn how they can be transferred from one material to another.
Through this process, the students also learn that materials have more uses than what the material is initially intended for. The shaving cream’s original purpose was not to make color prints. But it works, so we use it. It’s a quirky demonstration of how there are many ways to do something and many ways to use something.
The objective of the class was for the students to understand how color can be added, strengthened, weakened, and mixed – and then transferred. The shaving cream was a tool but was also like adding white to a color. The food coloring used needed to be added to strengthen a color. And multiple colors added to the shaving cream were eventually mixed.
The key skills acquired through this was adding and mixing colors to create an image or pattern and being physically able to do so.