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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Monday Morning Project: Soap Carving




Our Monday Morning Project this week was soap carving. Our Five In a Row book for this week is Daniel's Duck by Clyde Robert Bulla and one of the art project suggestions was to do a carving. The children were very excited about this project because we have never tried anything like it before. We used bars of Ivory soap and a plastic knife. They drew a top and side view of the animal they were going to carve and got to work. Chelsea did a fish, Alex a whale, and Nick started out trying to do a duck and ended up with a camel. Anthony and Christian were too young to do their own, but Anthony helped. It was a fun project, inexpensive ($1.07 for the three pack pk soap), and easy to clean up.

2 comments:

Andrew said...

You are such a good mom to do these projects every Monday morning. You're inspiring!

The Happy Homeschool Mom said...

Thank you! Monday morning projects actually began when the weather was bad two Mondays in a row and we couldn't go outside. After that, the children seemed to expect to do it every week , so I have kept it up.