Child Hand Carved Olive Wood Stone Figure from Bethlehem — 5.4 Inch

This olive wood child figurine is handcrafted by skilled Christian artisans in Bethlehem. Made from genuine olive wood, each piece is unique with natural grain patterns. Size: 5.4 inch. Ships worldwide with free US shipping on orders over $100.

Dimensions: H 5.4″ × W 3.0″ × D 2.7″  (13.6 × 7.7 × 6.8 cm)

About This Olive Wood Child Figure

There's something about this piece that stops people. I've put it on the desk in front of customers and watched them pick it up without being asked. The curves are smooth, the weight is right, and the grain of the wood does this warm honey thing that photographs can't quite catch.

It's a child figure, 5.4 inches tall, carved from genuine olive wood from the Holy Land. Not cast in resin, not printed, not machine-cut. Every line on it came from a person's hands. You can feel the difference when you hold it, and most people do hold it.

If you're looking for wood carving sculptures for sale that actually mean something, this one comes from a place and a family with a real story behind it. It's one of the figures hand carved pieces we carry that I'd honestly keep for myself. The grain on each one runs differently, so what you receive is its own version of this figure, nobody else has that exact one.

Features & Details

• ✓ Genuine Holy Land olive wood, hand carved in Bethlehem
• ✓ Dimensions: 5.4 x 2.9 x 2.8 inches
• ✓ Child figure subject, smooth curves, quiet and lifelike
• ✓ Hand polished finish, warm natural tones
• ✓ Natural grain veining, no two figures look identical
• ✓ Made by Christian artisan families, not mass produced
• ✓ Sits on a shelf, desk, mantelpiece, or prayer corner
• ✓ A meaningful figures hand carved gift for baptism or any faith occasion

Product Specifications

Perfect As a Gift

A customer wrote to us after ordering this for her daughter's baptism. She said the grandmother cried when she saw it, because she remembered a similar figure from her own childhood in her village church. That kind of thing doesn't happen with a gift card.

This is a figures gift idea that works for a lot of occasions. It reads as spiritual without being heavy, which makes it easy to give. Order it online and we pack it carefully, it arrives ready to give. Free US shipping on orders over $100.

We ship worldwide, and most US orders arrive within a week. If you need it by a specific date, just message us and we'll do what we can.

The Story Behind It

Most wood sculptures for sale online are factory-made somewhere and labeled as handcrafted. These aren't. The families who carve them live in Bethlehem, work in small workshops, and learned this from their fathers and grandfathers.

The olive wood itself comes from annual pruning of living trees. Nobody's cutting anything down, the trees keep growing, and the pruned branches go to the carvers. There's something right about that. A child figure carved from wood that came from a tree that's still standing in the Holy Land.

I've visited these workshops more times than I can count. One of the carvers, a man I've known since I was young, still does the rough shaping himself even though his sons handle most of the work now. He picks up each blank and turns it in his hands before he starts. Old habit. The kind of thing you can't automate, and nobody around here is trying to.

Care Instructions

Olive wood is low maintenance. If it starts looking a little dry after a while, rub a small drop of olive oil into it with a soft cloth and it'll come right back. Don't soak it in water and don't leave it sitting in direct sun for long stretches. That's really about it.