Marbled Shaving Cream Earth Art

If you’re looking for an adorable Earth art project, you’ll love marbled shaving cream Earth art! It’s the perfect project for an Earth Day activity, outer space theme, or any day of the week to celebrate our magnificent planet.

Two photos: (1) a paper plate is being lifted off of shaving cream with blue and green liquid watercolors mixed in, (2) three finished marbled shaving cream Earth art pieces sit on a green table next to two small jars of blue and green coloring.

You can’t go wrong with marbled shaving cream Earth art

Marbled shaving cream art is one of our favorite art techniques.

This technique can be used to make the most beautiful paper; we have even used it to make DIY tie-dye shoes!

No matter what you’re making marbled shaving cream art on, the final pieces are stunning, and you won’t believe how easy it is to make.

💡 Teacher Tip: Save your leftover shaving cream for fun potion play!

Materials

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Shaving cream – one bottle can make 20+ Earths
Coloring – ex: liquid watercolors or food coloring
Paper plates – or white paper cut into circles
Something to scrape off shaving cream – ex: gift card, credit card, squeegee, or ruler
Shallow tray
Thin stick – ex: bamboo skewer, toothpick, small branch

Three photos of the steps for marbled shaving cream Earth art: (1) shaving cream is squirt into a shallow tray, (2) blue and green coloring are added on top of the shaving cream, (3) a paper plate is lifted off of the colored shaving cream, transferring the colored shaving cream to the paper plate.

How to make marbled shaving cream Earth art

Step 1: Add a thin layer of shaving cream to a shallow tray (you can smooth it out with your hand if you want, too!)
Step 2: Drop blue and green coloring on your shaving cream.
Step 3: Use a thin stick to swirl around the coloring in the shaving cream.
Step 4: Lay your paper plate on top of the marbled shaving cream, pressing in all parts of your plate.
Step 5: Remove the paper plate and use a gift card to scrape the shaving cream off.

💡 Teacher Tip: You can make a second, third, and even fourth Earth from the same tray of shaving cream, adding more color if needed. We love how each tray of shaving cream makes more than one Earth (hooray!).

A gift card is used to scrape a white paper plate covered in blue and green shaving cream. Next to the paper plate are two more paper plate "Earths" and a red bottle of shaving cream.

Kick marbled shaving cream Earth art up a notch

The final pieces on their own are GORGEOUS.

We have some ideas if you are a “more is more” person and want some fun ideas to level up this activity.

Add clouds: A touch of glue + pulled apart cotton balls make for adorable, three-dimensional clouds

Outline the land: Provide kids with black Sharpies and invite them to outline the green spots on their Earths (it’s a bonus fine-motor activity, too)

Colored collage: Invite kids to glue small green and blue items to the matching sections of their Earth art for a little extra somethin’ somethin’.