For class, we were told to bring a bar of unscented soap to carve, just like Naomi Leon. I bought a bar of Ivory unscented soap to carve. At first, I wasn't sure what I wanted to carve in my soap. I decided to look in the book for something that I could carve into my bar of soap. I came across a list of animals that Naomi Leon wrote down. It was then that I decided that I wanted to carve some type of animal into my bar of soap. I decided to carve a butterfly.
I started carving my butterfly by first drawing my butterfly into the soap with the tip of my pencil. One I had drawn my butterfly on my soap, I used the sides of some scissors to start chipping away at my soap. Once I had chipped away the excess soap, I started attempting to smooth my butterfly with the scissors. I eventually gave up and decided to try coloring my soap with some chalk crayons because I thought that maybe adding some color would make it look better.
I found that I became more frustrated as time went on. Beforehand, I thought that it would become easier the more that I carved; however, this was not the case for me. Instead I became more frustrated the further I got in my soap carving experience. I ended up not liking how my soap carving turned out, but I think that is because I am a perfectionist. Since this was the first time I have ever carved soap, I knew that it would not be perfect, but the perfectionist in me wanted my soap carving to be perfect.I think that this activity was a great way for us to gain a deeper understanding of the novel we were reading. We were able to actually experience what it was like to carve soap, just like Naomi Leon. In a classroom, I think that doing something like this would help my students better understand what they are reading.
"How to Make a Soap Caving" by Dave Zachary
(From YouTube)
Art Blog Post #8
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