How To Make a Soap Sculpture

Supplies
Bar of Soap (rectangular if possible)
Toothpick
Paper Clip
Butter Knife
Plate or pan to use under it while sculpting
Paper
Pencil

Steps
1. Trace the soap onto you paper
2. Draw design on the shape of the soap
3. Cut out the shape and trace it on your soap or just look at it and draw it onto your soap
4. Place soap on a plate and start to carve out the largest areas with you butter or kid knife
5. Use paper clip to smooth and pencil for detail
6. Look at your sculpture from all sides

Adaptions
Students could make the soap into a different shape with their tools, it could be abstract and
not represent anything. They could make it into a letter.

Extensions
Carve texture into your soap sculpture
Learn about Stone Carving
Make a plaster carving
Carve letters out of soap

Artists/Art
Michelangelo
Henry Moore
Barbara Hepworth

Homework
Create a sculpture out of chocolate or another soap sculpture

Vocabulary
Direct Carving

Tips
The design shouldn't have too many pieces sticking off of it, the more together it is, the more
likely it will stay together. (a figure standing with arms raised would be difficult, someone or an
animal curled into a ball would be easier)

This tutorial was made by McCall Johnson for Mr Otter Studio
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