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Easy Apple Art Activity with 2 Ingredient Puffy Paint

September 30, 2018 by Sheryl Cooper

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 Inside: If you are looking for an easy apple art activity, check this out. It only requires 2 ingredients and even comes with a free apple printable!

I love easy activities. They are usually the ones that our toddlers and preschoolers love most, too!

So when I put together this easy apple art activity, I just knew it would be another hit.

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And it was!

The real fun is mixing the shaving cream and the paint together.

Then, take the free apple printable (provided below) and press it into the fluffy mixture, creating a print!

If you are looking for an easy apple art activity, check this out. It only requires 2 ingredients and even comes with a free apple printable!

Easy Apple Art Activity with 2 Ingredient Puffy Paint

Watch how we did this easy apple art activity in our classroom:

What we used:

  • Shaving cream
  • Washable red tempera paint
  • Large craft sticks for mixing
  • Trays
  • Apple printable (scroll down towards end of post to find link)

Setting up this easy apple art activity:

Squirt some shaving cream into a tray.

Add some red tempera paint and sticks for stirring.

Have enough copies made of the apple printable so that each child can make at least one.

Easy Apple Art Activity with 2 Ingredient Puffy Paint

Inviting toddlers to mix the shaving cream and paint:

I set up this activity after snack, so that the toddlers came over in small groups as they finished eating.

I invited them to mix the shaving cream and the paint using the sticks.

This is a wonderful way to work fine motor skills and build hand-eye coordination!

Easy Apple Art Activity with 2 Ingredient Puffy Paint

Eventually some of the children ditched the sticks and used their hands to mix the 2 ingredients.

Such a wonderful sensory experience!

Easy Apple Art Activity with 2 Ingredient Puffy Paint

These pictures show that it’s the process that was most important. They just kept mixing and mixing, asking for more paint and shaving cream.

Easy Apple Art Activity with 2 Ingredient Puffy Paint

I love using our Simplay3 activity table because it allows a small group of children to work together. Since there are no chairs (a deliberate choice, by the way), our toddlers could move around the table while mixing the ingredients.

This particular group loves to get their hands involved in anything we do.

In the past, however, I’ve always had at least 1 child who had an aversion to getting anything on the hands. In this case, keep those sticks handy for mixing, and keep a towel or damp cloth nearby.

Easy Apple Art Activity with 2 Ingredient Puffy Paint

Finally, I handed our toddlers the apple printable to press face down into the paint and shaving cream mixture.

They loved the feeling as they pat, pat, patted their hands on top of the paper.

The shaving cream and paint underneath the paper felt almost like a pillow.

Easy Apple Art Activity with 2 Ingredient Puffy Paint

We then pulled the paper off the paint and shaving cream.

Easy Apple Art Activity with 2 Ingredient Puffy Paint

Finishing this toddler apple art activity:

Let the apple prints dry completely.

You can send home as is, or cut around the apples.

Easy Apple Art Activity with 2 Ingredient Puffy Paint

For this activity, I decided to glue the cut out apples onto a green sheet of paper, as I wanted to hang them in our classroom.

Reminds me of the apple prints we did last fall!

Easy Apple Art Activity with 2 Ingredient Puffy Paint

Get your free apple printable here:

free apple printable

Books to go with this activity:


 

Easy Apple Art Activity with 2 Ingredient Puffy Paint

 

favorite preschool art supplies

More toddler art activities:

Toddler Circle Art with Paper Tubes

Toddler Painting with Brushes

Toddler Rainbow Suncatchers

Muddy Pigs Sensory Art for Toddlers

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About Sheryl Cooper

Sheryl Cooper is the founder of Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds, a website full of activities for toddlers and preschoolers. She has been teaching this age group for over 18 years and loves to share her passion with teachers, parents, grandparents, and anyone with young children in their lives.

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Comments

  1. Worksheet School says

    October 2, 2018 at 11:56 am

    Thanks for sharing.

  2. Christine says

    October 10, 2018 at 6:00 pm

    Going to do this with my 2 year olds tomorrow! Thank you!!!!

    • Sheryl Cooper says

      October 11, 2018 at 10:50 pm

      I hope they enjoyed it as much as our kiddos did!

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