Soap carving ideas

An easy and inexpensive way to make small scale sculpture at home. You will need: 1. A bar of soap 2. A sharp point [like a needle or compass] to lightly scratch on your design 3. A teaspoon to scrape away large areas of soap 4. A small flat screwdriver to scrape away smaller areas of soap. [A metal nail file could also be used here - improvise!] As soap is soft you do not need to use knives or other potentially dangerous equipment.

Soap carving is one of those crafts a lot of kids do once or twice during childhood. Few people, though, master the pastime quite like Janet Bolyard, author of “The Complete Book of Soap Carving.” Bolyard credits sculptor Brenda Putnam for elevating soap carving into an American art form. Looking for a medium to sculpt other than wax or clay, Putnam settled on soap and Procter & Gamble helped her procure large blocks of the malleable substance to work on. But that didn’t make the pastime…

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I did my soap carving last week and am very pleased with how it has turned out. I made my younger sister join in and gave her a little art lesson as we were doing it. She wanted to do something for her art summer project, India, so i helped her carve an elephant. I started on my idea of the cameo face, so i found a photograph of the side of my head/face and sketched onto the bar of soap. Then i got my rusty carving tools out and started hacking away at it, and before i knew it the table was…

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Project Description: Students will take a bar of Ivory soap and carve a 3D recognizable subject (no abstracts) using the subtraction sculpting method. Students will have access to a variety of tools...