Make Your Own Marbled Note Cards…

This is one of the Science Mommy's favorite, messy projects!
Ages: Big and Little Kid Scientists will both enjoy this project
Materials: Shaving cream, food color, toothpicks, paper plate, paper towels, popsicle stick or plastic knife, paper or note cards (heavy weight paper works better)

Procedure:

• Fill the paper plate with shaving cream, and smooth the top
• Add several drops of food color to the top of the shaving cream

• Drag a toothpick through the food color to create a marbled pattern

• Set the note card onto the shaving cream / food color.  Press gently to make sure all the color connects with the paper
• Remove the note card and scrape the excess shaving cream off  with a popsicle stick or plastic knife

• The design you created in shaving cream is now on your note card!

 

•   You can continue to smooth out the shaving cream and add more color for several prints.

   Since this is such a mess, it’s fun to make several cards at once…or book marks, or frames or…the sky’s the limit.  My Kid Scientists and I had lots of fun with this project.