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How to Make Shaving Cream Rain

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February 28, 2018 by Mom. Wife. Busy Life. 8 Comments

How to Make Shaving Cream Rain

How to Make Shaving Cream Rain – a science experiment

With the spring and summer approaching, you can be sure I’ve stocked up on a few basic household craft items to keep my kids entertained during the breaks! I love to find fun activities for the girls to do that don’t require too many ingredients or steps. I like for activities to be as easy as possible. The more complicated something gets, the more turned off of an experiment I get.

With that being said, I found an amazing spring/summertime activity for your children to do on those days when they get bored! The best part? You only need four things! Read on to find how to make Shaving Cream Rain!

How to Make Shaving Cream Rain

Supplies:

  • regular shaving cream (not gel)
  • food coloring
  • glass (jar, cylinder, vase, drinking glass, pitcher, glass bowl)
  • water

Directions: 

Fill your glass about 75% full with water.

Shake the shaving cream well.

Spray a layer of shaving cream on top of the water until covered.

Drop two drops of each color of food coloring on top of the shaving cream.

Watch the food coloring make it’s way slowly down into the water.

Add more food coloring as desired to create more rain!



The shaving cream serves as the cloud while the food coloring is the rain! You can just use blue for this experiment if you’d like, but I think it’s more fun to watch the different colors come together!

Here are a few YouTube videos that I found that show this experiment in action:

**Warning! Do not drink! While this may look like a tasty beverage, it’s not, so please make sure your children know that this is not for drinking!**

While you are here, check out how we made our own colorful sand and color changing milk!

We also tried this using a large pitcher and it worked out very well! We used a “neon” set of food coloring for this experiment and the primary colors of food coloring for the experiment above.

I love this picture below! You can see the food coloring coming down through the shaving cream!

My girls loved this experiment and I did, too! We will definitely be making Shaving Cream Rain again!

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  1. Elaine NZ says

    September 5, 2014 at 3:20 am

    What a brilliant idea. I am working with some pre-schoolers looking at transformation and will include this in my activities! Thanks for sharing!!

    Reply
  2. Jennifer says

    September 17, 2015 at 9:27 pm

    How long does it last? I’m just thinking it could be a very interesting centerpiece for a table

    Reply
    • Mom. Wife. Busy Life. says

      September 21, 2015 at 3:28 pm

      It doesn’t last too long! The centerpiece would be a great idea! I think it would work best as a fun activity for someone to do as they first sit down and see what happens while they are there! Maybe a teacher conference? Teacher’s could see how it works and then complete this as an experiment in the classroom!

      Reply
  3. Tisha says

    July 29, 2016 at 11:15 pm

    Could you do this with cool whip and it be drinkable?

    Reply

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