Shaving Cream Rain Clouds

An easy and colourful science experiment that demonstrates to children how rain is produced. 

What you need:

• Clear glasses
• Food colouring
• Shaving cream
• Water
• An eye dropper, syringe or 1/4 teaspoon measuring spoon.

What to do:

• Fill glass with 3/4 water.

• Top up with shaving cream

• Using an eye dropper, take a few drops of food colouring and squirt it on top of the shaving cream.

• Watch the food colouring fall through the shaving cream into the water.

• Continuing using different colours of food colouring to squirt onto the shaving cream as it falls into the water.

• Add more shaving cream, with more colours. 

Hints and Tips:

• Almond Oil is a hidden ingredient found in shaving cream. So please be careful with those children who may have allergies. 
• The water is like the air, and the shaving cream is like the clouds. And as the clouds get saturated with water, they produce rain.
• Add less water and less shaving cream to see what happens.
• Each child can do their own.
• Use paper/paper towel to make a print of the colours on top of the shaving cream.
• Time how long it takes for colours to fall through into the water.