How To Carve Soap

Heres how to carve a shape that will turn out looking decently turtle-esque.

How to carve soap. You can try out the plastic knife that will work on some soap bars before handing out the knives to the kids. You can also gently remove the marker with the wet Q-tip. 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.

Ask an adult for help 3. The practice soap is on. Turning your soap over to do both sides.

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Use a skewer or toothpick to draw the outline of a turtle on your soap. Make rough cuts into the soap until youve cut. Draw design on paper within the pencilled outline.

The hot water will melt the soap and smooth any edges. Start using your knife to remove material from the bar of soap using your etchings as guidelines. Ad We use only Natural and Sustainable ingredients in all of our Soaps Candles and More.

Draw a quick sketch of what you want your final object to look like. Trace drawing on soap. The shapes kids can whittle are endless but a turtle is an easy starter soap whittling project.