1. Takeaway Textiles Homework – Year 7
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Design a Health and Safety poster for the Textiles room. This must show rules that need to be followed.
Design your own ‘Corsa C’mon soft toy. Label it in detail and include swatches of fabric if possible. Colour it in neatly!
Takeaway Textiles Homework – Year 7
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Create a mind map of all the soft furnishings in your house on A5 paper.
To stretch yourself do the above and then
Choose 1 room and try and total up the cost for all items from that room.
Make something textile based at home.
You can knit or sew it but you must take photos of you making it and present these and a final image on an A5 sheet of paper.
DESSERT
Look into the meanings of REDUCE, RECYLE, REUSE, RETHINK, REPAIR, REFUSE.
Find out what they mean and think about how you could reuse clothes in your house. Show examples in an A5 leaflet.
Look at YouTube clips on how to make Fused plastic fabric.
Produce a wallet for your sketch pad from fused plastic .
You can add sweet wrappers, crisp packets or any other plastics to create a unique piece of fabric that can be stitched on by hand or machine. You could add your name in stitching!
Remember to protect your iron from the plastic with parchment paper!
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