Puffy Ghost Craft Made With Shaving Cream Puffy Paint + Bonus Spider Web

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Henry and I found something to do with the shaving cream puffy paint papers that George made! We extended it into a puffy ghosts and spider webs craft to display for Halloween!

This puffy paint ghost craft is one of the 15 ghost crafts for kids to make for Halloween.

Puffy Paint Ghost Craft

Of course, after Henry heard that George got to play in shaving cream, he wanted to play as well.

So, again, we got messy. Very, very messy.

To Make Puffy Ghosts, You’ll Need:

Black construction paper
shaving cream
school glue
large mixing bowl
scrap my clothes (this puffy paint is not easy to wash out of fabric.)
scissors

Make and Paint with Puffy Paint

I started Henry with a bowl this time (instead of a baking sheet), and dumped a good amount of school glue in it first and then filled it up with shaving cream.

I really have no idea how much glue I put in there, I emptied three very partial bottles, so I’d say a good 4-6 ounces or so.

Next, I placed a couple sheets of black paper for the ghost craft out for the boys to spread the shaving cream puffy paint mixture on to.

Yep, George joined in again too!

Mixing shaving cream and glue together and spread it all over the black paper.

My kids went to town!

They spread it every where (the entire table was covered at one point).

They made designs in the shaving cream (ding ding, a chance to practice writing!), and most of all just absolutely had a great time with it!

This puffy paint ghost craft was a wonderful sensory play time too!

Puffy paint mixture of shaving cream and glue to make adorable Halloween ghost craft for toddlers and preschoolers. Go ahead and get messy!

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Turn Puffy Paint into a Ghost Craft

When they had finally had enough, I asked Henry what he’d like to make.

The answer was a ghost.

We’ve been big into ghosts here lately.

And George is somewhat scared of them, so I thought this puffy paint craft would be a good way to make a ghost good, and not scary.

To make them ready to be ghosts, they needed eyes.

So Henry marked on his paper two eyes (and a nose and a mouth, because that’s what’s on a face Mom).

I marked two eyes and the mouth on George’s paper.

The next day, after the puffy paint craft paper had dried, I drew a ghost on George’s paper to show Henry what a ghost looked like.

Hoping that he’d be up to the challenge of drawing his own ghost on his paper.

He wasn’t up for that.

So I drew a ghost on his paper, too.

The puffy paint simply comes off when you write on it (or rub it), so it didn’t actually write on the paper, but just removed the white part.

Henry thought that was kind of like magic.

Then we cut out the ghosts!

Henry needed a couple reminders to keep his thumb on top while cutting.

But he did excellent!

The puffy ghost crafts got glued onto the orange Halloween colored papers that George had made previously.

The perfect background!

How do you make a puffy ghost craft?

Here is the step by step guide of this craft for quick reference.

Mix white glue and shaving cream in a large bowl to make puffy paint mixture.
Spread puffy paint mixture to cover black construction paper (use hands or tools if your child is sensory sensitive.)
While off paint with your fingers to make eyes and a mouth and outline of ghost.
Let dry.
Cut out ghosts.
Glue to a background (or glue to cardboard to hang the ghosts.)