How to Dye Eggs with Shaving Cream

Learn How to Dye Eggs with Shaving Cream this Easter season!

I’ve been dyeing Easter eggs with my kids now for over 10 years! We love finding ways to mix it up and try new ways to dye eggs.

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Today, I’m sharing how to dye eggs with shaving cream! This method is similar to the whipped cream method of dyeing eggs listed above. The only thing different is one cream is edible and the other is not!

As always, I do recommend adult supervision when using ingredients like shaving cream. Pay close attention especially with the little ones when completing this activity!

You don’t need a lot of shaving cream in each muffin cup. In fact, I recommend using just a small squirt, since the shaving cream will rise.

Also, it’s important to note that I do not recommend using water at all for this method. I learned this the hard way once when I tried to wash the shaving cream off of the eggs. The dye came off completely!

Read my tips below on how you can create vibrant, beautiful eggs with shaving cream!

How to Dye Eggs with Shaving Cream

Supplies:

• boiled eggs
• food coloring
• muffin pan
• shaving cream (foam, not shaving gel)
• paper towel lined trays
• straws or toothpicks
• plastic spoon
• tissue (like Kleenex)
• plastic gloves (optional)

Directions:

Squirt a small amount of shaving cream in each muffin cup.

Use the spoon to spread the shaving cream out evenly in each cup.

Using desired colors, add a 1-3 drops of food coloring into each muffin cup.

Use the straws or toothpicks to mix the colors around in the shaving cream. Try not to mix the colors if you are wanting to create single colored eggs. (I’ll be sharing how to mix colors at the end of this post!)

Place an egg in each muffin cup. Put on gloves if you’d like (I do recommend this if you don’t want your hands to turn colors from the food coloring!)

Roll each egg around into the colored shaving cream until the egg has been colored. You can help color the egg by rubbing some of the coloring around onto the shell.

Once each egg is colored, place each egg onto a paper towel lined tray. Space the eggs apart so they do not touch. Set aside for about 30 minutes or longer.

If you have more boiled eggs to use you can squirt more shaving cream into each muffin cup. Now it’s time to try mixing colors!

Add a different color in each muffin cup.

Place an egg in each muffin cup and turn the egg around in the muffin cup until the egg is covered.

Complete the same steps above and now you have pretty multi-colored shaving cream eggs!

Take a tissue and place it around each egg. Gently dab the tissue up against the egg, trying to remove the shaving cream from the egg. You may need to use two tissues for this process until all shaving cream is removed. Try not to rub the egg or the coloring may smear, and as mentioned earlier, do not use water or the coloring could wash off!