How To Make Soap Carving Tools

For large projects join two cakes of soap.

How to make soap carving tools. Brush away any soap. Within the outline on the paper draw your design and cut it out. Make the drawings correspond to the size of the block.

If you are carving a deer from transparent green soap let your deer kneel with his long thin legs tucked under him. Bar soap perla pencil carving tools. With a pencil or pointed tool draw design directly on soap.

In carving soap keep the silhouette simple. Using the rasps start carving up to the pencil sketch lines. Any kind of small sharp tools can work.

Pencils Another tool that may make your crafting experience a little smoother is a pencil. Making the Tools. We made ours using a tongue depressor or popsicle stick.

To make a soap carving etch your design into the surface of the soap with a pencil knife or toothpick. On the other end of the stick we made a chisel tool by rubbing only the widest side against the sandpaper. Get the larger masses first in.

Ive found a combination of clay tools and dental tools to be most effective. Trace drawing on soap. Soap carving is a great way to introduce children on how to carve wood.