You will need:

• Shaving cream  
• Food coloring 
• A cupcake tin (or cups to hold each “paint” in) 
• Paint brushes (or you can finger paint!) 

Steps and examples of how to add language:

1. Fill each cupcake tin with shaving cream 
   • Simplify language by repeating “put in” each time you fill up a tin cup 
   • Label and talk about the way it looks and feels
     • Is it soft?  
     • Fluffy?  
     • How does it smell?  
     • Do you like it? 
2. Add the desired amount of food coloring drops 
   • Pick which color they want for each paint 
     • Label all of the colors  
   • Simplify language and label verbs when you “squeeze” each food coloring and the paint goes “drop drop drop” 
3. Mix up each paint  
   • Mix each color, what happens when the colors mix? Talk about it!  
   • Add more food coloring to some of them, what happens to the color?  
     • Is it darker?  
     • Brighter? 
   • Simplify language and label verbs as you “stir stir stir” or “mix mix mix” 
4. Repeat until all paints are mixed 
5. Take cupcake tin/ paint palate and brushes into the shower or bath and make your masterpiece! 
   • The possibilities here are endless. Paint pictures together, make a sun in the sky, draw a spider, make the ocean, etc.  
   • Label and describe all of the things you make 
   • Practice drawing letters or numbers 
     • Have them trace your letters or numbers in another color 
   • Practice drawing shapes and labeling them 
     • Have them trace your shapes in another color 
   • Ask questions!  
     • What is it?
     • What color is the spider? 
     • What color is the sun? 
     • Where is the sun? Is it in the ocean or in the sky?  
     • Who made the circle? Mommy or you? 
   • Take turns painting if you only have one brush 
     • label my turn and your turn  
6. Rinse shaving cream down the drain and clean off!