Today Michael Many Eagles came to our school. He is a Metis Soapstone Carver. He showed us how to carve an arrowhead out of soapstone. First, we used a file to scrape off the corners to make a pointy arrow. The filing was kind of hard because you had to go back and forth with the file until both sides were pointy. It was very messy because of the dust. Next, we had to carve a groove on each side or all around. Then, we polished our arrowhead with a scrub pad. We had to make sure we did all the sides. It took about five minutes! We used our file just like a pencil to make designs in the soapstone. Last, Michael Many Eagles drilled a hole into our soapstone and we tied it onto a string. The students of Room 24.
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| Michael Many Eagles explaining what we were going to work on. |
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| Working on our soapstone. |
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| Our necklaces. We are so proud! |
The class is lucky Michael Many Eagles came to teach you such a cool activity! Kaiya said you can buy the soapstone so we can try this at home. Can you let me know what store? Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThe soapstone can be purchased at Artists Emporium on St.James Street. The kids loved this!
ReplyDeleteHI ROOM 24!
ReplyDeleteWE LOOKED AT YOUR BLOG POST ABOUT SOAPSTONE CARVINGS AND WE THOUGHT THEY WERE AMAZING! WE DID SOAPSTONE CARVING TOO AND THOUGHT IT WAS AWESOME BECAUSE WE GOT TO CARVE WITH THE SOAPSTONE.
FROM MS MOWAT'S CLASS!