A Golden Fish

How to choose carrots for carving.

1. Peel strips from a carrot to use as the fish's fins. Carving A Golden Fish Picture 1
2. Cut the large end of a carrot to about 5cm long. Carving A Golden Fish Picture 2
3. Round the carrot off and make one end and the underside flat. Cut a thin groove at the top back end of the fish to hold its fins. Carving A Golden Fish Picture 3
4. Cut fin shapes from the strips of carrot that were peeled off earlier. Carving A Golden Fish Picture 4
5. Insert the fins into the thin groove. Carving A Golden Fish Picture 5
6. On both sides of the fish cut grooves to hold the side fins. Carving A Golden Fish Picture 6
7. Cut side fin shapes form a carrot and insert them into the side grooves. Carving A Golden Fish Picture 7
8. Cut three small, thick ring shapes from a carrot. Insert round, black ended pins into two of them and stick them into the fish to make the eyes . Use part of a cocktail stick or pin to fix the third one as the mouth. Carving A Golden Fish Picture 8
9. The finished carving. Carving A Golden Fish Picture 9