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Rainy Day Umbrella Craft

by Angela Thayer 9 Comments

April showers bring May flowers! It’s been a rainy week around here, which inspired me to create this umbrella craft with my little ones.

umbrella craft for kids

I love using shaving cream in kid activities, so we decided to use it to make this umbrella swirled with colors! Using shaving cream for crafts is fun because you can also use it for a sensory activity after you are done with the craft.

Here’s what you need:

  • shaving cream
  • food coloring
  • baking sheet
  • knife
  • card stock paper
  • scissors
  • glue
  • black paper
  • umbrella template

It’s super simple to create this swirled look. To start, spray shaving cream onto a baking sheet. Then drop food coloring around the sheet. Swirl around using a butter knife (or something similar).

shaving cream

Next, place a piece of card stock paper on top of the shaving cream and press down until the whole paper is coated. Then pull it off the shaving cream and let it sit for a few minutes.

s cream

Next, wipe off the shaving cream with a paper towel and let the paper dry.

I created a couple sheets for umbrellas and one for the rain drops.

art

After about 30 minutes, the paper will be dry and ready to make into an umbrella!

I printed the umbrella template, cut it out, and traced it onto the shaving cream paper.

umbrella craft template

After tracing, I cut out the umbrella and glued it onto a black piece of paper. I also cut out raindrops from the blue shaving cream paper.

umbrella craft made with shaving cream

This was a fun and easy craft to make. I think it would be fun to create at home with your children or in a classroom! These would also make a great classroom decorations for spring!

umbrella craft

Happy Spring!

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  1. Katrina Bostick-Langenfeld says

    April 19, 2019 at 5:42 am

    Love it! Do you have a printable version?

    Reply
    • Angela Thayer says

      April 19, 2019 at 2:31 pm

      I’m sorry, but unfortunately I don’t.

      Reply
  2. Erin says

    March 27, 2019 at 5:52 am

    Did you make the yarn and clip display or buy it ready made? Where did you find it?

    Reply
    • Angela Thayer says

      June 17, 2019 at 6:05 am

      I bought it from IKEA. It’s actually a curtain wire used for shower curtains 🙂

      Reply
  3. Susan Morrow says

    June 6, 2016 at 11:56 am

    I used this craft with my kindergarten students but incorporated math into it but just using 2 strings, one on each side of umbrella handle and then giving each student a different number of raindrops. They had to glue raindrops on each string and then write the addition sentence on the umbrella 🙂 it was a big hit!

    Reply
    • Angela Thayer says

      June 6, 2016 at 7:23 pm

      This is a wonderful idea! I’m so happy to hear that it was a success!!

      Reply

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