How To Make A Turtle Of Apple, Melon and Watermelon

I got a lot of responses on how to make a turtle of fruits the same that I did one from watermelon for the Beach wedding.

I prepared a tutorial to show how to make the turtle and explained the method in an apple. This method works for making a turtle of watermelon, melon, pumpkin and other materials.

How To Carve A Turtle Of Apple

You will need:

1 apple,

nectarine or other apple for its head and legs

Tools:

thai knife

Step instruction:

1. Cut the apple in halves. We will make two cute turtles.

2. With thai knife carve 3 cells at the central line.

3. Add cells around.

4. Carve small swirls in each cell.

5. Slice nectarine for legs and do a head. Place your turtle on a plate.

REMEMBER to treat your carving with lemon water to prevent it from browning!

How to carve apple turtle with swirls pattern

Let's decorate the second turtle with small stars! You will need V-knife for it.

Step instruction:

Repeat steps 1-3 from the first instruction.

Carve stars in each cell with V-shape knife.

Use V-knife from your carving tool set to do the cute stars in the apple turtle

You are done! Again, you can do this turtle in melon and watermelon too. 

Do not forget to apply lemon juice to your carving when you work with apples. Read the article 'How To Carve Apples And Prevent Them From Browning' to safe carved apples for a long period of time.

If you get used to lemon juice use a special cirtus sprayer device. It's perfect to sprinkle lemon juice to salads and dishes.I use the citrus sprayer for a quick carving. 

Cut a lemon and screw the sprayer in

Now you can spray your apple carving or use it for cooking

Here are my turtles made of apples,kiwi, melon and watermelon

Apple Turtles

Kiwi turtle

Melon turtle 

Watermelon turtle

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Sea Theme And Hawaiian Theme Fruit Displays

In this post I'd love to continiue the beach theme 

Hawaiian Wedding and Luau

The watermelon was carved to Hawaiian themed wedding.
A melon lantern is attached to the watermelon with wooden skewers.

The Hawaiian watermelon carving display and a Hawaiian theme cake

Hawaiian watermelon carving with names and hibiscus flower

Sea Themed Fruit Display With Sailing Ship

The fruit display to 60 years birthday of a man who loves sailing. 

Sailing ship is carved out of marrow squash.

Anchor is made of pumpkin.

The sailing ship made of a marrow squash and watermelon carving for 60 years birthday

Anchor carved out of pumpkin

Join Fruit and Vegetable Carving group at Google+ to share your fruit carving pictures, for discussion,  recognition of your carving talants and for getting help from other carving artists. I am in the group! This group welcomes fruit carving, soap carving, butter and chocolate carving. 

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Beach Theme Wedding

It's Friday today and the Beach Theme Wedding out here!

Beach theme or sea theme is inspiring for a fruit carving artist. So many fruit crafts and designs can be done. Sea creatures, ships, fish, exotic birds, melon bungalow, melon shell basket, Hawaiian Luau theme, pumpkin lanterns with a romantic pattern (dear readers, let's do a brain storm, please continiue the list with your ideas in the comment bar!).

Since there are no exotic fruits here in Sakhalin even papaya and mango is a rare fruit here, I had to use simple products like carrot, radish, melon and watermelon. I decided to pay attantion to details to make the guests feel  like they are on the beach. I also had a task to fit the client's budget.

Before carrying out this project I sent a drawing with my comments on the design to my clients for their approval. Their answer was Yes we want it!!!

Beach Theme Wedding Project

Melon turtle. A turtle is a symbol of long life and wisdom. It's a mascot for welfare and prosperity. 

Fruit carving topiary on bamboo stands. The stands are not a real bamboo, they are immitation made of a local material, north bamboo, 3 meter high plant which is widely grow on Sakhalin island. Its botanical name is  Polygonum sachalinense. I like to use it for my crafts.

Carrot shell. The shells are carved out of carrot.

The Beach Theme fruit carving display

Watermelon carving details and exotic flower out of kiwi and apple

Melon turtle with carrot head and legs

Carrot flowers and grape bouquet on the bamboo stand

Radish flowers and grape bouquet on the bamboo imitated stand 

Carrot shell and the north bamboo stand bound up with rafia

Head table decoration, Beach theme wedding

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Melon Goldfish and Sea Treasure

The melon goldfish is a large copy of the lemon fish. I carved it using a thai knife only. On the plate you can see various sea creatures like crabs, conchs and corals.

Goldfish ingredients:
melon fjr the body,
pumpkin and carrot for the pins,
grapes for eyes.

Crabs from red apples,
Conchs from daikon,
corals from carrot,
sea weed from cucumber.

Tools:
The set of 3 carving knives will be perfect for making the Goldfish arrangement.

Japanese carving style

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Melon Vessel and "Underwater World" Fruit Tray

Melon boat and fruits acting "Underwater World" fruit adventure

Treasure and sea creatures: mandarin, apple, carrot

Fruit nderwater world

More entries about sea themed fruit displays:
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Golden Fish Fruit Tray

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Summer Wedding Decoration Idea - Wedding On The Beach

More wedding decorations:
Hawaiian Wedding Fruit Buffet
Beach Wedding Fruit Display
Sea Theme Wedding
Melon Fish and Sea Treasure fruit display

I just back from visiting a Flower Art Contest in my hometown. A florist friend of mine took a part with the Beach themed wedding floral installation.

Shells, sea rocks, drift woods and a starfish look so nice between the succulent plants and dishes. 

Wedding table. Seaside theme decoration

Wedding table decor

Wedding on the beach

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Sea Theme Wedding Party, Olympia Park, August 2009

Wedding Fruit Buffet With Sea Themed Fruit Sculptures

It was a signifacnt day for Igor and Yana, a young couple whose wedding party was arranged in a marine style. The recieption hall was decorated with baloon figures in shape of octopus, shrimps and seahorses. The wedding flower bouquets were arranged in vases with sand and seashells. 

My job was to decorate a buffet table with fruit carving arrangements picturing underwater world. We decided on making the following fruit sculptures and platters as a watermelon sailing boat, coral reef and a melon shell with tropical fish.

The sailing boat was filled with watermelon balls.

The melon shell was displayed at the head table. It's a melon basket in shape of sea shell with treasure  inside and underwater inhabitants around as exotic fish, coral and weed.





Fish sculptures, hydranth, starfish, weed and corals made form fruits and vegetables.



On a bar desk we placed chocolate fountain. Each plate was decorated with a sea themed sculpture as crabs, fishes and corals.



Apart from my edible crafts there was a wonderful baked sailing boat made of dough.

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