• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Art projects
    • Painting
    • Pastels
    • Watercolors
  • Craft Projects
    • Paper Crafts
    • General Crafts
    • DIY Jewellery
  • Holidays/Seasonal
    • Christmas/Winter
    • Father’s Day
    • Halloween/Fall
    • Mothers Day
    • Spring/Easter
    • Summer
    • Valentine’s Day
  • Shop
Projects with Kids
menu icon
go to homepage
search icon
Homepage link
  • Art projects
    • Painting
    • Pastels
    • Watercolors
  • Craft Projects
    • Paper Crafts
    • General Crafts
    • DIY Jewellery
  • Holidays/Seasonal
    • Christmas/Winter
    • Father’s Day
    • Halloween/Fall
    • Mothers Day
    • Spring/Easter
    • Summer
    • Valentine’s Day
  • Shop
×

Easy Marbled Seashell Art for Kids

By ProjectswithKids

18.1K shares
  • Facebook

This seashell art is so addicting and mesmerizing! The colors turned out beautifully and the patterns were so cool. We used up all of the shells I put out and went looking for more. I even started a second tray of shaving cream so I could do my own seashell art.

We did lots of experimenting with different color combinations and dipping the shells into one color at a time and layering and trying to make different patterns with the food coloring. We love exploring different painting techniques. Take a look at my collection of painting ideas for kids for more fun and creative art projects to try! 

This seashell art is so fun and easy, kids will love creating gorgeous marbled seashells with their beach treasures. The patterns are so colorful and gorgeous! This summer craft will have kids engaged, using their creativity and having fun.

We found that we had the best results with the shells we had collected ourselves from the beach. I have quite a few bins of beach treasures that I have collected over the years and this was the perfect project for us to dig through those bins and pick out some shells to use.

The shells that were mostly white in color that didn’t have a shine or coating on it seemed to work the best. We also used some broken shells and shell fragments that turned out just beautifully!

Create your own marbled seashell art for kids

This seashell art is so fun and easy, kids will love creating gorgeous marbled seashells with their beach treasures. The patterns are so colorful and gorgeous! This summer craft will have kids engaged, using their creativity and having fun.

This post contains affiliate links, which come at no cost to you. If you would like more information please review my privacy & disclosure policy.

Supplies

  • Shells, white clam shells that we had collected ourselves from the beach seemed to work the best
  • Food coloring, we used a neon food coloring pack
  • Shaving cream
  • Craft trays
  • Bamboo skewers
  • Paper towels, you will need a lot!


Instructions

This seashell art is so fun and easy, kids will love creating gorgeous marbled seashells with their beach treasures. The patterns are so colorful and gorgeous! This summer craft will have kids engaged, using their creativity and having fun.

1. Get your shells ready. Make sure that they are clean and dry. As I mentioned above we had the best results with the shells that we had collected from the beach. White clam shells that don’t have any coating or shine to them produced the best results.

2. Fill your tray with shaving cream and squeeze your food coloring onto the shaving cream. We used a neon pack of food coloring although, I didn’t find the colors looked very neon like. But they still turned out very bright and colorful. Whatever colors you use will turn out great!

This seashell art is so fun and easy, kids will love creating gorgeous marbled seashells with their beach treasures. The patterns are so colorful and gorgeous! This summer craft will have kids engaged, using their creativity and having fun.

You may also like: Easy Painted Fairy Houses for the Garden

3. Using the bamboo skewers make a marbled pattern in the shaving cream. We initially started with multiple colors and then experimented with using one color at a time.

4. Dip a shell into the marbled shaving cream, we dipped the shells and then scooped up the shaving cream a bit. Taking a paper towel, wipe off the shaving cream to reveal the amazing patterns underneath! Place the shell on some more paper towels to dry.

This seashell art is so fun and easy, kids will love creating gorgeous marbled seashells with their beach treasures. The patterns are so colorful and gorgeous! This summer craft will have kids engaged, using their creativity and having fun.

Experiment with creating different patterns and color combinations. I also tried dipping one side of a shell in one color and then dipping another side in another color, letting the colors overlap slightly and I love how this process turned out!

5. Continue creating your beautiful seashell art!

This seashell art is so fun and easy, kids will love creating gorgeous marbled seashells with their beach treasures. The patterns are so colorful and gorgeous! This summer craft will have kids engaged, using their creativity and having fun.

My kids had a great time with this seashell art and didn’t want to stop! We had so much fun creating cool and interesting marbled designs in our seashells, I ended up making more trays of shaving cream and getting out more shells so we could continue. It’s definitely a summer craft we will do again!

More summer crafts you will love  

Colorful Dragonfly Craft Using Q-tips

This q-tip painted dragonfly craft is a fun and easy summer activity for kids of all ages. Kids will have fun designing their dragonfly wings, each one will be unique and beautiful. This is a wonderful and relaxing painting project that is also great for working on fine motor skills. Free printable dragonfly template included!

Mini Upcycled Plant Pots with Washi Tape

These mini plant pots are too cute for words! Colorful washi tape is all it takes to transform these recycled containters into little works of art. Perfect for giving as gifts!

Follow me on Pinterest for more amazing project ideas!

Pin this project for later

This seashell art is so fun and easy, kids will love creating gorgeous marbled seashells with their beach treasures. The patterns are so colorful and gorgeous! This summer craft will have kids engaged, using their creativity and having fun. #projectswithkids #kidscraft #shellcraft #beachcraft #summercraft

This seashell art is so fun and easy, kids will love creating gorgeous marbled seashells with their beach treasures. The patterns are so colorful and gorgeous! This summer craft will have kids engaged, using their creativity and having fun. #projectswithkids #kidscraft #shellcraft #beachcraft #summercraft
This seashell art is so fun and easy, kids will love creating gorgeous marbled seashells with their beach treasures. The patterns are so colorful and gorgeous! This summer craft will have kids engaged, using their creativity and having fun. #projectswithkids #kidscraft #shellcraft #beachcraft #summercraft
18.1K shares
  • Facebook

More projects you will love

Mini painted flowers with a watering can template art project idea for kids
spring art for kids to make
Fireworks painting for kids
Painted wood slice ornament Christmas craft for kids to make

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Ria Cheripuram

    July 30, 2018 at 7:52 am

    This is such a clever idea! Love the colours and patterns on the shells.
    Now, I know what to do with the left-over seashells I have 🙂 My daughter is gonna love this activity!

    • ProjectswithKids

      August 02, 2018 at 5:29 am

      Thank you Ria! It really is a fun craft, I hope you and your daughter have fun creating your marbled seashells!

Primary Sidebar

Hi! I'm Angela, welcome to Projects with Kids. I love creating and having fun with art and am excited to be able to share my project ideas with you!

More about me →

Lets Connect!

  • Mail
  • Pinterest
  • Facebook
  • Instagram

Footer

↑ back to top

Copyright

Sharing is awesome! Please understand that all images and text are property of Projects with Kids. You may use one or two images provided that a link back to my original post is included and credit is given to this blog. Please do not remove any watermarks, crop, or edit any of my images. You may not republish an entire post or post photos of my family. All free printables offered are for personal use only. Pinning is always welcome and appreciated! Thank you!

Copyright © 2022 Projects with Kids | Privacy Policy