The children created an instant display of printed African sunsets for their classroom wall using collage and mono printing techniques.

We also looked at creating images using reductive methods, each student coloured a piece of paper with wax crayon and them painted over the wax crayon with acrylic paint, once dried they were able to scratch through the paint to create their African designs.

We decided to create a workshop around recycling and up cycling, we created a short power point presentation to show the children what can be used from, dresses made from meat to dresses made completely from paper. This was to show that nothing was impossible , clothing can be made from anything.

We contacted the school asking for any SEN needs within the class to enable us to include all students. As we only had 2 hrs for the workshop we wanted to enable the children to complete the exercise and take their designs home at the end of the day.

We collected together materials, found a roll of spare paper …

We decided to cut a mixture of blank garment shapes to enable each child to choose a garment shape we cut out skirts, dresses, t shirts, trousers.               

Garment Shapes.                                                          Materials.

Examples of the children work..

The workshop went very well, it was very interesting to listen to the children talking as the afternoon progressed, one student talked about gender stereo typing, another talked about what university he wanted to go to design cars. Each student completed an outfit to take home and where all very pleased with their results.