DT
Gift Boxes
Throughout Autumn 2 we have learnt all about shell structures in order to design and make our own gift boxes. We started by learning what a shell structure is and investigating shell structures that we use every day such as egg and cereal boxes. We explored what a net it by carefully taking apart existing boxes and putting them back together before deciding on the type of net we would need to create our own boxes. We then investigated how we could strengthen paper using ribbing, corrugating and laminating methods, followed by how to correctly score and fold the strengthened paper to create our gift boxes. As it was approaching Christmas we decided to give our boxes a Christmas design, thinking carefully about our choice of images and colour.
Coin Purses
During the Spring term we were focusing on Textiles in D.T. Our project this term was to design and make our own coin purse. To do this we explored different fabrics and their suitability for our project as well as how we could fasten our purse to ensure they were secure. We learnt all about appliques, seam allowance and different stitches so that we could apply these to our designs. When making our purses we showed perseverance when applying our new sewing skills as this proved to be difficult at times! At the end of our unit, every child created their own purse which could securely hold money.