Shaving cream art helps build toddlers' sensory awareness. An awareness of their senses helps toddlers understand and process the world around them. Provide shaving cream for toddlers to play in, touch and smell. Invite children to squeeze the cream between their fingers or feel how it glides softly on their skin. Provide surfaces for children to touch that are rough or hard so that toddlers can compare sensations, recommends Scholastic's website.
Shaving cream art helps students develop fine motor skills in their hands and fingers. These skills are necessary for writing, as they allow children to hold writing utensils and form letters. To build fine motor skills, spread shaving cream on a piece of paper on a table. Encourage students to use their fingers to make lines, shapes and letters in the shaving cream.
Shaving cream art can introduce toddlers to new colors and build color recognition skills. Apply shaving cream to a piece of paper, then add food coloring. Let toddlers mix the paint and shaving cream to create colored shaving cream. Talk to the child about the color she has made. Mix yellow and blue together to make green, or red and blue to make purple. Ask toddlers to identify colors as they paint with them.
Painting with shaving cream can foster language development because it provides an opportunity for toddlers to communicate a new experience, notes the Earth's Kids website. As toddlers play in the shaving cream, encourage them to talk about what they are feeling. Enrich vocabulary by teaching your toddler new words such as "soft" and "smooth." Ask questions as children work on their art project, encouraging them to describe their hand movements.