Second batch of carved food
KatieIt is so fun to hear from so many of you about the play-food carving. I love it that my enthusiasm was totally shared by you all, it makes it really fun to continue this project. So thank you! I am definitely going to work on some directions for how to carve these simple toys and I look forward to sharing my progress on that front with all of you. But for now, I am still working on carving and coming up with new things to make.
I had a more difficult go of it the second day because it turns out it was really difficult to carve a tomato from 2x4's that were glued together. The large piece of wood was unwieldy and it made my hands and wrist sore to work with it. I need to figure out a different plan or material to make larger round food like apples and tomatoes. I was trying to make these toys just from material I had around at home so I either need to dig deeper in my garage or go shopping for carving stock. So I set aside my plans to make large round fruits and veg for now.
But in the meantime, I had a wonderful time making some other, smaller vegetables and fruit- and fish that snuck in.
This collection is- a lemon, a mushroom, some green beans, a cuke to slice and a little fish.
I am trying to brainstorm food items other than fruits and vegetables that would be easy to carve and be good to play with- like maybe some rolls or a baguette that could be sliced. Please let me know if you have any suggestions. Here is everything I carved so far-
I hope to make some more things today, like a couple more mushrooms and maybe some potatoes and some garlic.
I will leave you with this little gnome that Julian made in our homeschool carving club yesterday- here he is on our bookshelf.
Reader Comments (6)
Katie I love them! I am sure Jackson would too! I wish I wasn't so scared of knives!
Wow Julian! I love your gnome. He would be great to hide in my gasrden.
Love that carved food! I can think of a lot more fruit or vegetables, but you asked for other foods. How about a cake that can be sliced? Or cheese? A sausage? Pizza? Getting hungry now....
How about ingredients to make sandwiches:
bread
tomatoes
cheese
ham
You could do them all in slices and the kids could play at cutting them up, then making their sandwiches. It would work for breadrolls/beefburgers/tomato/cheese too.
Katie,
The Re-Store has a bin of scrap wood for very cheap.
These foods are really great! The paint jobs are beautiful. How about fried eggs? Bacon? A chicken leg?
Katie, this is a lovely site! It's nicely designed and not too busy with "buttons". The carvings are wonderful and I like the way you write. I'm a fellow Art of Action artist and am, bit by bit, trying to visit the other artists sites during our workshop. Keep up the good work! Debbie Young