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Design Brief: Design and Make Fashion Waistcoat to wear at the Class Carnival Parade

Sequence of Learning for Teachers
In this unit of work children become costume designers. They design and make a carnival costume to wear in the class carnival parade. The costume consists of a waistcoat and matching mask that are designed around a common carnival theme. Children learn about carnival and the history of waistcoats. They learn how to create a pattern template for a waistcoat and using this pattern template, they cut and assemble fabric pieces, adding buttons and pockets to create a waistcoat product. Children choose a theme for their carnival costume and create a mood board of ideas and images to reflect this theme. Using the mood board they have created, they design and make a waistcoat and matching face mask applying a range of decorative techniques to create their carnival costume. They showcase their carnival costume in the class fashion parade.

This knowledge, skills and understanding is delivered through the following six sessions:

1. Investigate 1 –What is Carnival? & Focus Task 1 – Fashion Designers and Mood Boards.
2. Investigate 2 - What is a Waistcoat? & Focus Task 2 – Making a Waistcoat.
3. Focus Task 3 – Adding Pockets and Fastenings.
4. Design and Make: Costume Designer.
5. Design and Make: Costume Maker.
6. Evaluation: Evaluation activities and class carnival parade.

Some activities / sessions can be re-arranged or delivered in different ways in the learning sequence to allow for whole-class teaching and/or small adult-led sessions to take place at the same time.