Mix flour, salt, and alum in a bowl. Slowly mix in water. When the dough is thick and solt like modeling clay, it is ready to use.
Koll some of it into a ball, and shape it like the hug in the picture.
Cut up pipe cleaners for legs and feelers. Stick them into the sides of the douth bug.
Hit by bit, cut awav the out-side edge ol the soap until you reach the lines. When you carve, hold the knife edge away from your body. Don’t try to cut away big chunks, just cut a little at a time.
Round out the top of the turtle’s back with the knife. With a pointed stick vou can make dents for the turtle’s eyes and mark lines on its shell.
When you finish carving, smooth the sides by wetting the snap and rubbing it with your fingers.
Paint the turtle with tempera.
You can carve many other animals out of soap. Remember it is easier to carve the animals if vou first draw a picture on the soap.
A turtle carved from SOAP
1. Scrape any lettering from the sides of a bar of soap.
2. Lay the soap on paper and trace around it.
3. Draw the top view ol a turtle (see Picture) inside the soap outline on the paper.
4. Put a piece of carbon paper between the drawing and the soap, and trace over the lines of the picture. This will make a carbon copy on the soap.
A turtle carved from SOAP
Materials
a bar of soap
a paring knife
paper and a pencil
tempera paints
carbon paper
a pointed stick
DRIFTWOOD MOBILES
Tic small pieces of driftwood to each other with picture wire. See picture. Then tie a longer piece of picture wire to the center of the top piece of driftwood. Make sure the pieces balance. Hang the mobile in a window or a doorway.
COAT HANGER MOBILE
Materials
a wire coat hange
string
heavy construction or cardboard
Pull a wire coat hanger into the shape shown in the picture.
Cut different shapes like stars, circles, and triangles out of construction paper or cardboard.
Tie strings to the paper shapes and hang them from the coat hanger.
Hang the coat-hanger mobile by a string in a window or doorway.
Modeling clay craft
A toothpick will also hold the head to the body of a clay monkey. Bond pipe cleaners for the legs and the tail. The ears are made of cardboard or felt.
A toothpick will hold the head to the body of a clay elephant. The trunk is made out of an empty tooth-paste tube or a pipe cleaner. Add ears made of cardboard or felt, and tusks and tail made of pipe cleaners or paper. Set the elephant’s body on legs made of spools.
Modeling the figure in clay
For a long-necked giraffe, you will also need a clay head and a clay body. The neck can be a pencil. Pipe cleaners will do for the legs and tail. And pipe cleaner bits, paper, or toothpicks can be used for the horns.
A CLAY ZOO
You can stick all sorts of odds and ends in clay to make funny animals.
You can add animal parts made of pipe cleaners, yarn, toothpicks, empty tooth-paste tubes, empty lipstick tubes, empty spools, cardboard, felt, or almost anything.
You can make a clay lion with two balls of clay one for the body and one for the head. Make the neck out of a tooth-paste cap. Bits of pipe cleaner or yarn can be used for the tail and the lion’s mane. Toothpicks or spools make good legs.