Lesson video

Hello, everybody, welcome to today's design and technology lesson.

My name is Miss Larham.

I would love to know who's joining us on our lesson today.

So would you be able to tell me your name? Great, it is so lovely to meet you and welcome you to your lesson.

I am really excited about today's lesson.

Are you? Fantastic, let's get started.

So this is lesson five in our design and technology journey in our textiles unit, where we are learning all about templates and joining techniques.

Today, we're going to create a final design idea.

So let's see what equipment you will need for today's lesson.

In this lesson, you will need some paper, a pencil, and some colouring pencils, some scissors.

Now, don't forget, because we're using scissors, you must be supervised by a parent or a carer.

You'll also need a stapler and some glue.

So if you need to pause the video now and go and collect everything you need, now's the time to do that, and you can press play when you're ready.

Well done for collecting everything you need, everybody.

Let's get started with today's lesson.

Let's see what our lesson is going to look like today.

So first, all together, we're going to do our intro quiz.

Then, we're going to recap our previous lessons.

Then, it will be star words time.

After, we're going to have a go at creating a final design.

Then, we're going to make a paper model of that design.

And finally, all together, we will finish on our exit quiz.

It is intro quiz time.

Give me a thumbs up if you're ready.

Super, now I'm going to show you an animal template, and you're going to tell me what animal it is.

Are you ready? Here's my first one.

What animal is this? Make sure you told me, if you haven't already.

What animal is this? Elephant.

Well done.

The big ears, the trunk, and the tusks give it away.

Here's my next one.

What animal is this? Tell me now, if you haven't already.

This animal is? Did you say giraffe? Well done, this is a giraffe, and those ear shapes, and those horns, and the long muzzle give us that clue.

Well done.

Everybody, I've got a really tricky question for you.

A challenge question, where we're going to have to think back to a couple of lessons when we did our sewing.

I wonder, can you remember the name of the stitch that we used? We were sewing, what was that stitch called? I'll give you a clue.

Do you remember? A few more seconds to think, what was that stitch called? Remember we.

Tell me now.

Well done if you've had a try.

Did you say running stitch? Well done.

So when we're sewing, we use a running stitch.

Amazing intro quiz, everybody.

Let's have a think about what we have done in our previous lessons.

We have learned that our context is all about animals at the zoo.

So we've done some research into different animals, the different things you might find at the zoo.

We have also made a mock-up, haven't we, where we have used different joining techniques.

And then, last lesson, we started to explore different animal templates, and we had a go at doing some different animal templates, and we concentrated on the features of those animals and made sure we put those into our templates.

So we have done lots already, and we're going to be doing some more of that learning journey today.

It is time for our star words.

Get those hands ready.

Put 'em up high.

Put 'em out to the side.

Put them close to your face.

Excellent, we've got lots of star words today, so let's get started.

Our first word is, ready for my turn, your turn? Design.

Your turn.

Design.

Well done, and that is where we generate and create all of our ideas.

Next one, criteria.

Criteria.

Well done.

We looked at criteria last lesson, didn't we? And it's that list of things that our product has to be able to do.

Mock-up.

Mock-up.

Well done.

We've talked about mock-up, haven't we? And that's where we just have a practise, have a try with cheaper materials.

Next one, template.

Template.

Well done, we're getting confident with the word template now, aren't we? Do you remember a template is that shape that helps us to cut out our own shapes? Excellent.

Last one.

Communicate.

Communicate.

Well done, communicate means just drawing and talking through our ideas.

Well done on your star words.

Now, let's get started with creating our final design.

So today, we're going to make some choices about our final puppet.

So thinking about, what zoo animal are you going to create for your puppet? And we're going to start writing down, drawing down our ideas for that animal puppet today.

But first, let's just remind ourself of our design criteria.

These are things we need to remember when we're designing and making our puppet.

Shall I invite Charlie the Chimp again to help us? Charlie, are you ready? Here he is.

Say hi, Charlie.

Well done.

Now, remember, so the puppet needs to be able to fit on the user's hands.

So remember, Charlie the Chimp fits onto my hand.

There is space for my little finger, there is space for my thumb, and there is space for the rest of my fingers for the head.

It should also have the appearance of a zoo animal.

So we would find chimpanzees at the zoo.

So I have chosen Charlie because he is a zoo animal that we would find.

It also needs to be moveable, so I need to be able to move my hands, and his head, and his whole body.

So needs to be moveable and flexible.

So you need to remember these three things when we're designing our puppet today.

Let's just do a quick confidence check for our criteria.

My turn, your turn.

Really quick.

It must fit on the user's hand.

Your turn.

Amazing.

It must look like a zoo animal.

Your turn.

Great job, and it must be moveable and flexible.

You're turn.

Fantastic.

I think we've locked those in, haven't we? Well done.

To help you with your final design ideas page today, you might like to have, close by to you, your animal template shaped sheet that you created last lesson because I'm going to use mine to decide which one of these I'm going to do as my final puppet.

Now, I have been having a look and I have made a decision.

For my final puppet, I am going to make a parrot.

So now, everybody, you need to think for me.

Which zoo animal are you going to choose as your final design? It might be one that is on your zoo animal template sheet, or you might have had a think, and you might be choosing something else.

That's up to you.

It's your decision.

It's your puppet.

So just take a moment to think and decide what zoo animal you are going to turn into a puppet.

Few seconds to think.

Can you tell me now, which zoo animal are you doing? Good choices.

You might've said lion.

You might've said tiger.

You might've said giraffe.

You might've said elephant.

You might've said frog.

I'm going to choose a parrot.

So now, I'm going to show you how to make a final design ideas page, and then it will be your turn.

Okay, so the first thing I'm going to do is draw a picture of what I want my parrot puppet to look like.

So I'm going to start with the basic outline of my puppet, so making sure I've got the features of the animals.

So I've made sure that I have got some feathers, where my finger and my thumb will go.

Draw the same on the other side.

Just start with that basic outline of your zoo animal.

Then, what you're going to do is add in the details this time.

So remember before, where you just did the basic outline for our template, but this time, I actually want you to start adding in some detail.

Let me show you mine.

Here's mine.

So you can see I've added in the top bit of the feathers, the eyes, the beak, some additional feathers, and then a patch in the middle, okay? So I had my basic outline, I've then added in some detail, and then I want you to colour it in.

I'll show you mine.

There we go.

And there is my parrot all coloured in.

So look at the steps you need to go through today, so basic outline, adding in the detail, and then adding in the colour.

So when I make my puppet, I know that I will need some red fabric for the main part of my puppet, but I also will need some yellow, some blue, and some green as well because this is what the front of my puppet is going to look like.

Now, we're going to add in some labels.

The first thing I'm going to do is label the material that I'm going to use, and I'm going to add in the colour as well.

So I'm going to use some red felt to make my puppet, and then I'm also going to use some yellow felt.

So I'm labelling my materials.

I'm also going to label my joining technique.

Remember it will be sewing, stapling, glueing , or pinning.

I'm going to sew mine, and I'm going to use running stitch.

I'm going to record that as well.

You might like to record some of the ways you're going to decorate this.

So as part of my decoration, I'm going to use some actual feathers.

So my puppet will have actual feathers on there.

And I think I'm going to use some buttons for eyes.

Button eyes.

Now, don't worry if you don't feel very confident about labelling the finishing techniques because in lesson seven, we're going to go through all the different finishing techniques that you could use.

So you can always add that on after that lesson.

But today, make sure you label the colours on and the fabric, and how you're going to join it together.

So you're going to pause the video now.

You're going to go through these steps, basic outline, added detail, colour, and labels.

So this is the puppet you're actually going to make, so remember, that's really important, so you're going to make this in real life.

Then, press play when you're ready so we can finish off this part and start the next part of the lesson.

See you really soon.

Welcome back, everyone.

It's lovely to see you back for the next part of our lesson.

Quick show-off time.

I'll show you my finished design.

Show me yours.

Wow! They look amazing.

Well done for adding colour, and well done for adding some of those labels as well.

That's amazing.

We've got another practical thing to do in our lesson today.

Let me tell you all about it.

Now, we're going to be making a paper mock-up of our design that we have just done.

Hold on, everybody.

Quick quiz time.

I can't remember what mock-up means.

Can you help me? What does mock-up mean? Option one, a model which allows us to try out our ideas with cheaper materials, or is it option two, a shape drawn to help us cut out shapes? Which one is it? Which one means mock-up? Can you point on your screen which one you think it is for me? Do you have your finger on the answer to help me? What does mock-up mean? Put it down and let's see if you're right.

Option one.

Did you have your finger on option one? Well done, so that reminds me.

A model which allows us to try out our ideas.

So we're going to try out making this with paper because that's a cheaper material.

That sounds like fun.

Shall we get started? Excellent.

Now you have very kindly reminded me what mock-up means, you're going to need your final design page and some more paper because we're going to have a go at making our final design into a paper puppet.

I'm going to show you how I'm going to turn mine into a paper mock-up, and then it will be your turn.

Okay, what I would like you to do first is draw that basic outline shape of your zoo animal puppet.

So no detail.

I want it to be nice and big.

I want it to hopefully make sure that your hand can fit inside your mock-up today.

So first job, draw your template of your animal shape, no detail, and then I would like you to cut it out carefully using your scissors, okay? So pause the video, draw the outline of your puppet so it's a template, and then cut it out, and then press play when you have done that.

Off you go.

Okay, so I have cut out my template shape.

But remember, for a puppet, we need a front and a back.

So we need to make sure we have two of these.

So what you need to do is you need to put your template on another piece of paper, you hold it really still, and I want you to draw around your template until you have the shape again, and then cut it out.

So what you're going to do now is pause the video, put down your template onto another bit of paper, draw around the outside all the way round, and cut it out until you have two of these, off you go.

Welcome back, and well done for making sure you have a front piece and a back piece.

Now, just put them on top of each other and just check that they fit perfectly on top of each other.

If they don't, you might just need to do a little bit of trimming to get them perfect.

Well done, so we're going to use these two pieces now to start to make our mock-up.

So first, I'm going to concentrate on the front.

So what I'm going to do now is have a really good look at my final design idea, and I'm going to cut out some templates and some pieces to add on all of those features and details.

So I have started with the feather tuft at the top.

So I have drawn that and cut it out.

So I'm going to stick that onto my paper mock-up.

I'll put some glue on there, putting it on.

I'm then going to have a look at doing the eyes on my final design, so I've cut out these shapes, and I'm going to stick them onto the front of my paper mock-up.

So I'm adding all of these pieces on.

So it's a mock-up, so I'm practising my ideas so when I make this puppet for real, these are bits of fabric and different finishing techniques and embellishments that I'm going to actually put on there, but I'm just practising with paper for today.

Got the beak.

So it's starting to look like my final design page.

I've also got this feather tuft that I need to add on.

I'm going to start with a bigger piece.

Oh, I forgot that it goes under the beak, round the neck area.

Okay, and then on my design, I've got the green bit that sits on top of that blue bit.

So that's the blue bit.

I'm now going to stick the green bit on.

So look what I'm doing.

All those bits that I will be adding with fabric, I'm practising with my cheaper material.

I'm practising with paper.

And the last bit I'm going to add is this big yellow bit here, so I have cut out that shape, and make sure it fits on, and then I'm going to glue that on.

Okay, so what you're going to do now, everybody, is pause the video.

You are going to have a look at your final design, and you're going to cut out all of these extra bits that you are going to add on to the main part of your puppet.

So for example, if you're doing a tiger, you might cut out, in paper, some tiger strips and stick those on.

If you're doing a giraffe, you might add on your eyes and the eyelashes, and then any of that pattern that a giraffe has, and you would be sticking those on with paper.

So when you press play, you will be at this stage.

So you will have a paper-decorated mock-up.

Okay, off you go.

Good luck.

Take your time.

Well done with getting to this stage, everybody.

Now, what we're going to do is turn it into a puppet.

So you need your back piece and your front piece, and you'll need to line them up really, really carefully.

Then, we're going to use one of our practise and our quick methods of joining our front and our back pieces together.

So we're going to use the stapler.

Okay, so remember how we used this before? Keep it nice and joined together so it's in line with each other.

Put it in the stapler, and push it down till you can't push it anymore, and you will have joined these together.

Now, when you're stapling today, everybody, be careful that you're keeping fairly close to the edge at all times.

We don't want a staple in the middle of our mock-up 'cause we won't be able to put our hand in there.

So what you're going to do now, everybody, is pause the video.

You're going to use your stapler to join the front and the back pieces together.

When you have gone all the way around and your puppet has been joined together, press play, and we'll see what we're going to do next.

Off you go.

Welcome back, and amazing work making a paper mock-up of your puppet.

Does it fit on your hand? I'm going to try mine.

I even put a feather tail on it.

Now, my paper mock-up fits on my hand.

Does it fit on your hand? Hmm, if it doesn't, not to worry, it's only a mock-up.

This is why we try it out first before making our real thing.

I've come across a big problem in my mock-up.

I don't know if you can notice, but I cannot fit my thumb and my finger in the wings, so I can't make it movable and flexible.

I can't move these wings.

So I'm going to show you what I'm going to do now to evaluate my paper mock-up.

You might need to do some of these things too.

So I'm going to write some evaluation notes on my mock-up, and I'm going to write it straight on here because it's just a practise, isn't it? So I'm going to use this to help me when I make my final puppet.

So when I put my hand inside, I noticed that this bit here was too narrow.

As I put my hand in, I really struggled to squeeze my fingers into this bit here, so I put that this bit is too narrow.

Also, I've got a note about the wings, haven't I? The wings need to be lower.

My thumb and my little finger are all the way down here.

They're no way close to being in these wings.

So I'm going to have to really think about my template.

I'm going to have to move these wings down so I can put my thumb and my finger in there to be able to move them.

I also need to make this bit wider so I can put my fingers up into the head area.

Now, if your mock-up has shown you some problems today, don't worry, problems are fine because we're amazing problem solvers.

Just make some notes on your mock-up of things that you will need to change next time we look at our templates and our puppet, okay? Off you go and do that now, and press play so we can finish off our lesson together.

Off you go.

Thank you for joining me for the last part of our lesson, our exit quiz, and our questions are going to be based on what we have just made.

My first question is, what is it that we have made today? That word beginning with M.

Mmm.

What did we make? Remember it's an example, a model using cheaper materials.

What's that called? A mmm, mmm.

Tell me if you know.

Did you say mock-up? Well done.

We have made a mock-up.

A model, practising our ideas with cheaper materials.

Well done.

My last question is, how did we join our mock-up together today? We used one of our joining techniques.

Which one did we choose? Tell me now.

Well done if you said staples or stapling.

We used the staples today to join our bits of pattern pieces together.

Well done if you knew that.

Now, before you go, I've got something that I need to tell you.

That final design that you have done with me today, will you promise to keep it safe for me? We'll need these in our next lessons, and we will continue to add our ideas onto this final design page.

So don't lose it, and bring it with you to next lesson.

The same for your paper mock-up.

Don't lose this 'cause you've written some really important problem-solving notes onto this, and this helps us to think, "Ooh, "what do I need to do better? "What have I done really well? What am I going to keep?" So make sure you keep those two things and bring them along to next lesson for me.

I can't wait to see you all next lesson.

Bye, everybody.