Ages 13-17

Soap Carving

Skills/Topics:

-Reductive Sculpture

-Three Dimensional

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Supply List: 

-Bar of Soap 
-Pencil
-Paper
-Scissors
-Plastic Butter Knife 

-Paper Clip
-Paintbrush

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Alternative Supply List: 

-If you don't have a paintbrush you can brush off the soap carving carefully by hand

-If you don't have a plastic knife or paper clip you can experiment with what tools you do have that work.  

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Overview: 

Learn how to create a reductive soap sculpture. Reductive sculptures are formed when you start with a block such as a block of clay, marble, plaster, soap, wood, etc. and you take away this material to form your sculpture. Additive sculptures are formed when you continually add material together to make a sculpture such as with clay, wood, etc. Reductive sculpture is more difficult because if you take off too much it is impossible to put it back. 

Project Directions:

Click on the link below for the instructions!

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Met Kids - Create a Soap Carving!

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If you enjoy this project check out the other project on Met Kids!