How To Carve A Soap Turtle
Add the details to the soap sculpture and a turtle starts to appear.
How to carve a soap turtle. Cut out 12-inch squares on your turtles shell with the tip of the knife. It doesnt have grain and can be carved with just about anything. Keep the in-progress sculptures in plastic bags to preserve the moisture of the soap and keep it from drying out and becoming brittle.
Soap is soft enough that you can use a sharp knife or you can use household objects such as spoons forks and toothpicks to make your design. Soap is firm but soft widely available and inexpensive. In this art lesson tutorial Ill explain how to carve a basic bar of bath soap into a sculpture of an animal using simple ceramic tools.
Making the shape of the turtle. Place the design on the bar of soap. Aug 2 2019 - This is a complete lesson on carving a turtle out of a bar of soap.
Make rough cuts into the soap until youve cut down to the outline you drew on it. Gently scrape off any brandingwording thats imprinted on the top of the bar of soap. Lay down newsprint or other paper to gather shavings as students work to make cleanup more efficient.
I use this lesson w. To make a soap carving etch your design into the surface of the soap with a pencil knife or toothpick. Use a skewer or toothpick to draw the outline of a turtle on your soap.
The shapes kids can whittle are endless but a turtle is an easy starter soap whittling project. I designed this dog pattern and cartoon instructions along with the soap turtle pattern and instructions published in Woodworking Illustrated SummerFall 2016 Issue 76 for my club the Capitol Woodcarvers of Salem Ore to hand out at fairs with a bar of soap. Take measures to keep the soap workable.
