Soap carving

Originally published in the 1940s, this booklet illustrates 20 easy whittling projects designed for boy scouts. About whittling -- Excerpt from the Wikipedia: Whittling is the art of carving shapes out of raw wood with a knife. Whittling is typically performed with a light, small-bladed knife, usually a pocket knife. Occasionally the terms "whittling" and "carving" are used interchangeably, but they are different arts. Carving employs the use of chisels, gouges, and a mallet, while whittling…

Well we finally finished our Michelangelo study with some soap sculpting! A lot of thought went into that dynamic title of this posting ey? Bet you were wondering what this post would be about until I explained it. We started with a bar of Earthwise natural soap cause I only have natural soaps in our house and of course never thought to google a good soap for carving. Thankfully these held up really well under the carving process. These particular bars were a lemongrass and manuka honey…

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…

Soap Carving: A Simple Camp Craft Idea, perfect for Girl Scouts or Boy Scouts!

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Thanks Mark for your suggestion for a photo of each animal...

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Soap Craft for Kids - This is such a fun kids activities to do with ivory soap. You can mold, make impressions, and more for a fun, sensory activity that smells great and is so fun to make. Perfect summer activity for kids from preschool, kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade and more.

Learn how to carve a Teddy Bear out of soap using kid friendly materials and tools. Also included in this tutorial are the pattern for a butterfly and a turt...

So yesterday I went along to ArtLab at Rugby Museum and Art Gallery. More information about ArtLab can be found on This workshop was all about soap stone carving. Inspired by handmade carvings arou…