Soap Carving

What you will need:

Bar of Soap

Clay carving tools or paring knife

Paint (optional)

Paintbrush (optional)

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Steps:

1. Find a bar of soap. Any kind will work, but a large rectangular shape may be easiest to use.

2. Use clay carving tools or a paring knife and carve your soap into an animal sculpture, flower, car, or anything you want. Be careful using the knife. Adult supervision is required for younger children.

3. Once you are finished carving, you can paint your sculpture. If you don't paint it, you can use the soap in the bathroom as decoration or to wash your hands.

4. It will not paint as smoothly as a piece of paper, but if you give it time to dry, and paint a second coat if needed, it will look great!

Tip:

Tip: If you save the soap shavings from the part that was cut off, they can still be used. Place the shavings in a plastic sandwich bag and add a little water. Once the shavings are softened from the water, you can squeeze them together to form a new bar of soap!


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My 5 year old daughter invites alot of kids over to play, as all kids do they tend to get bored with toys and each other after awhile. So, to keep the afternoon fun, I keep craft supplies handy in ziploc bags organized by craft--stuff to make crowns in one, mobiles in another etc.. When the time comes that they need something to do I can just pull it out and it is ready to go. No fuss no muss.
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