I had a blast! You can too!
Here is the link to my marbled endpapers post on 6/23/19 on HHHistory.com. In that post, I touched on this marbling technique, but it's mostly about the history and art marbled endpapers in books.
This would make a great outdoor summer activity for kids.
Here is what you need.
Supplies:
~Paper
~Food coloring
~Shaving cream (not the gel kind)
~A stick (or something to pull through the colors to make designs)
~Squeegee (or something else with a flat side to scrape off the shaving cream)
~Container to hold shaving cream big enough to fit your paper (You can put the shaving cream directly on the table or counter but the food coloring may stain. You can put down a plastic table cloth and put the shaving cream directly on it.)
STEP 1: Set out supplies
STEP 2: Shake shaving cream and put about a half of an inch in the bottom of your container and smooth it out with squeegee.
STEP 3: Put several drops of food coloring on the shaving cream, use one color or several different colors.
STEP 4: Swirl the stick back and forth and/or around and around in the shaving cream to streak the food coloring.
STEP 5: When you are happy with the pattern, place a piece of paper over the surface and press it gently into the shaving cream.
STEP 6: Lift out the paper and lay it shaving-cream-side up on plastic and scrape off excess shaving cream with squeegee to reveal the marbling.
STEP 7: Swirl the shaving cream again and make another print. You can add additional colors and swirl and print over and over.
Since the shaving cream didn’t really stick to my paper, I had very little to scrape off, but still created beautiful marbling.
I had so much fun that I kept printing and printing and could have kept going.
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Here is what you need.
Supplies:
~Paper
~Food coloring
~Shaving cream (not the gel kind)
~A stick (or something to pull through the colors to make designs)
~Squeegee (or something else with a flat side to scrape off the shaving cream)
~Container to hold shaving cream big enough to fit your paper (You can put the shaving cream directly on the table or counter but the food coloring may stain. You can put down a plastic table cloth and put the shaving cream directly on it.)
STEP 1: Set out supplies
STEP 2: Shake shaving cream and put about a half of an inch in the bottom of your container and smooth it out with squeegee.
STEP 3: Put several drops of food coloring on the shaving cream, use one color or several different colors.
STEP 4: Swirl the stick back and forth and/or around and around in the shaving cream to streak the food coloring.
STEP 5: When you are happy with the pattern, place a piece of paper over the surface and press it gently into the shaving cream.
STEP 6: Lift out the paper and lay it shaving-cream-side up on plastic and scrape off excess shaving cream with squeegee to reveal the marbling.
STEP 7: Swirl the shaving cream again and make another print. You can add additional colors and swirl and print over and over.
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| Then I added blue and swirled and printed. |
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| Then I added green and swirled and printed. Added yellow and swirled and printed. And swirled and printed and printed. |
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| The shaving cream stuck more to the index cards, than to the regular paper, so the reveal is more dramatic. |
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| It started getting a bit muggy, so I added more shaving cream, swirled, and printed. Then I added red again, swirled, and printed. |
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| Another dramatic reveal. |
I had so much fun that I kept printing and printing and could have kept going.
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| These were some of the last prints I did. |
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Here are all the prints I made, and I still had shaving cream.
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| Here's what my tray of colored shaving cream looked like when I finally called it quits. |
There was still a lot of use I could have gotten out of it by adding more colors and shaving cream and swirling it around.
So much fun! More fun than playing in the mud as a kid.
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