I use shaving cream a LOT with my kids. It’s an extremely popular sensory activity and there are a million and one things you can do with it. This particular example is beyond easy: I squirted some shaving cream on a plate - definitely let the kids shake up the cans - it’s part of the fun!

Next I hid some buttons of various shapes in the shaving cream. They dug around in their piles of shaving cream to find all the buttons, and then I added another step. I drew on waxed paper and asked them to match the button shapes to the shapes I had drawn. Super easy - check geometry AND sensory play off your list for the week! As always, my kids also enjoyed washing the buttons afterward.

There’s almost always some element of cleaning up that engages them…especially when it involves water. Are they always actually helpful? NOPE. Is it worth it anyway to engage them in clean-up? ABSOLUTELY. Gotta build those habits early. My mother is somewhere out there laughing about me being in charge of anyone’s clean-up habits, most of all my own.