Carvings

To go along with Touching Spirit Bear book, we did carving yesterday. I gave the students each a bar of ivory soap and a plastic knife. Ivory Soap works the best because other brands tend to break apart(I've tried diffferent kinds). It was interesting to see what kinds of designs and patterns and symbols the kids came up with. Some even painted outlines on them. Then they had to write about why they chose to do that design. It was an intereting activity that kept them busy for the entire class period. Those students not finished could take their soap(not the knife) home and use untensils from home to finish.