How To Carve Soap

Start using your knife to remove material from the bar of soap using your etchings as guidelines.

How to carve soap. Make rough cuts into the soap until youve cut. Turning your soap over to do both sides. The shapes kids can whittle are endless but a turtle is an easy starter soap whittling project.

Place a cake of soap on a piece of paper and draw outline of soap on paper. You can also gently remove the marker with the wet Q-tip. Trace drawing on soap.

Use a skewer or toothpick to draw the outline of a turtle on your soap. Use a knife to cut the corners off. Turn the work often.

Ensure that they know how to hold It so that they do not cut themselves even by mistake. 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. Go slowly soap can break.

Dont carve too long in one place. I use this lesson w. In a sense youre digging your design out of the bar of soap.

For large projects join two cakes of soap. Do this very carefully and be sure your Q-tip is not dripping wet. Then start to carve out the details.