Lesson video

Hi everybody, it's Miss Larham here your D and T teacher.

I hope you're all okay.

And thank you so much for opening up today's lesson.

Now today, we're going to be doing some sewing, Mmmh! How exciting.

Now don't worry if you haven't done any sewing before.

I'm going to teach you how to do some sewing today.

And I'm really excited to get started.

So shall we begin? Okay then.

So let's have a look at what we're doing in our design and technology lesson together today.

This is lesson three of our textiles unit, where we're learning all about templates and joining techniques.

Today, we're going to experiment with different joining techniques.

Hmm, I wonder if you can remember when I mentioned joining techniques in our previous lessons? Joining techniques means where we join different fabrics together.

So when we open them or pull them apart, they don't come apart.

We have joined them successfully and securely together.

So we're going to experiment with different ways that we can join fabric today.

Because we're experimenting with lots of different techniques today, we're going to need lots of different bits of equipment.

So in this lesson, you will need some fabric.

Now this might be some brand new felt and that's absolutely fine.

Or you might be using some recycled fabric today.

So my fabric is an old pillowcase that I don't need anymore.

So you might be able to find something around your home that you can recycle.

But don't forget to ask the adult in your house if you can use it first.

Okay, so it can be brand new fabric or it can be recycled fabric.

You will also need a piece of chalk, preferably a different colour than your fabric.

So if I'm using a white pillowcase, I don't want white chalk, I want a coloured bit of chalk.

And you'll need some scissors.

And don't forget, when you're using your scissors make sure you're supervised by a parent or a carer.

You also need a needle, thread, and some pins.

Now this might be dress pins or safety pins, either is absolutely fine.

You will need some glue.

The best type of glue for this is like a PVA or a fabric glue, and a stapler.

So there lots of things you need for today's lesson.

Let me just remind you, fabric, chalk, scissors, needle, thread, and pins, and don't forget, we need to be supervised by a parent and carer when we use those as well.

Some glue and a stapler.

So I would like you to pause the video now, go and collect everything you need and press play when you're ready.

Off you go.

Well done for collecting everything you need.

I know our list was really long today, so thank you for collecting everything you need to be able to take part in today's lesson.

So let's have a look at what our lesson is going to look like today.

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

And then we're going to be recapping previous lessons.

After, we will do our star words.

Then we're going to have a go at creating a template, followed by exploring joining techniques.

And finally all together, we will do our exit quiz.

So let's get started.

Let's start with our intro quiz.

Are you ready? Me too.

Okay, my superstar quizzers I have brought along cranky the crocodile.

Now I was wondering if you'd be able to tell me what type of toy is cranky.

Look at him.

What type of toys he? Have you got an idea? Brilliant, what type of toy is he? Tell me now Let's see if you're right.

Cranky, what type of toy are you? He said he's a puppet.

Well done, if you knew that.

When I put cranky on my hand I turn him into a character.

Turn him into a puppet.

Well done everybody.

So thought in our textiles unit we have learned that our context is at the zoo.

So we've been thinking about some animals that we would find at the zoo.

Can you quickly think of two animals you would find at the zoo? Right, I'm going to give you five seconds.

Two animals, five.

Tell me your two animals.

Well done, I was thinking of giraffe and lion.

Well done for thinking for me.

We've also been thinking about gift shops, haven't we? And the types of things you might find and buy in a gift shop.

Only, can you think of one thing from a gift shop? Five seconds, one thing you could buy from a gift shop.

Five.

Tell me now.

Well done, I was thinking of toys.

Well done for your thinking too.

In our last lesson we put all of us thinking together to create ourselves an image board.

We are now going to move on to the main part of our lesson.

Shall we get started? We have lots of star words to get through today.

We've got lots of important words that we need to know for today's lesson.

So let's get started.

Remember we're going to do some my turn, your turn.

The first word is template.

Your turn.

Template.

Well done for joining in.

Template is a shape that has been drawn that we can draw around to help us to cut out our shapes.

Let's see what's next.

Mock-up.

Mock-up.

Well done.

Mock-up is a really special word that we need today.

A mock-up is a model which allows us to try out different ideas, but using cheaper materials.

So it's all have a go, okay? Let's see what's next.

My turn, sew.

Sew.

Well done, we're going to learn how to sew today.

Sewing is where we join two pieces of fabric together using some stitches.

Let's see what's next.

My turn, staple.

Staple.

Well done.

Now you've got a stapler there with you, haven't you? Do you know the staples have that little thin bit of metal, we put inside the staplers and close the stapler down.

That metal bit gets closed, doesn't it? And again, we can join fabrics together or materials together really securely with a staple.

Next one, running stitch.

Running stitch.

Well done.

Running stitch is a type of selling.

It's a type of stitch and it's really nice and simple using an up down, up down motion.

I'm going to teach you how to do a running stitch today.

To be able to experiment with our joining techniques today we first need to have a look at creating a template.

Now don't worry.

I've created a template for you today.

I'm going to quickly show you how I made it.

Okay, so I put my hand down on my paper and I drew around the outline of my hand, leaving a gap around the outside.

Let me show you.

So I have made glove puppet template.

So you can now download this from your worksheet and open up and print it off.

And you can use the same template as me.

Now I'm going to show you how to turn this template here into some pattern pieces.

So the first thing I did is I cut out that template that you can see on your worksheet.

So I've cut that out first of all.

Then I have collected my fabric.

And what I do is I put the template on the fabric, make sure you keep it as much to the edge as you can, cause we don't like to waste fabric.

And then using your piece of chalk, I'm going to use my pen for this, but chalk or a pen would be best.

I'm going to draw around the outside.

Keep your hand on the template so it doesn't move around.

Really neatly and really slowly.

It's got to be very neat everybody, very accurate.

So I've drawn around it.

Now because I need a front and a back.

I'm going to do that twice.

Okay, so I have drawn around the template twice.

I need a front and I need a back.

The next thing you need to do, you need to be really careful with this, make sure you've got some adult supervision, is to cut around the line that you have drawn.

Okay, nice and neat, being careful of your fingers.

Okay, so I want you to cut all the way around.

Okay, so what I want you to do now is pause the video for me and cut around.

So make sure you got two of the same and then cut both of them out, off you go.

Welcome back, everybody.

Well for drawing around both of the templates so you've got two bits and cutting both of them out because now you have a front and now you have a back.

And we turn the template into pattern pieces.

And now I'm going to call these pattern pieces.

Just check they fit perfectly one on top of the other.

Okay, well done everybody for making your pattern pieces.

Now we have our pattern pieces what I've done is just putt a couple of pins down the middle of the two pattern pieces, just to hold them together.

This will just help me when I'm doing my joining technique.

So you might like to add a couple of pins to hold the front and the back pattern piece together while you're joining it.

Now, what we're going to do everybody is try out some different joining techniques all the way around the edge of our pocket mock-up, okay? So we're going to try out lots of different varieties all the way around.

So let's get started with our first technique.

Our first joining technique we're going to use today on our mock-up is sewing.

And we're going to do a special stitch called a running stitch.

Have a look at that photograph, that picture that is right below me.

That's an example of a running stitch.

And I like to think of running when I do my running stitch.

I think of my arms and my knees.

When we run they go up down, up down, up down, and that's what we do when we do running stitch with our needle and thread we go up down, up down.

Let me show you how to do a running stitch and then it's going to be your turn.

Okay, so the first thing you'll need everybody is your needle and some thread.

And it's okay if you need adult help with this because it's very tricky to get our needle and thread ready.

So what you will need to do is thread the end of the thread through the eye of the needle, which is the little hole at the end.

And you're going to bring it all the way down until the both of the ends are in line with each other.

And they're going to tie this into a knot.

I'm going to wrap it around my finger and I'm going to pull that little tail through to make a knot.

So that's the first thing we need do.

And it's absolutely okay if you need your adult or your grownup in your house to do that for you.

Off you go and get your needle and thread ready and press play when you have got this needle and thread ready, off you go.

Well done for getting your needle and your thread ready.

Now let's get started with our sewing.

So we're going to join these two pattern pieces together with a running stitch.

What I might like to do because I'm practising my sewing today, it's just a mock up.

With a pencil I just like to draw myself a little line to follow.

We're not going to sew all the way around.

We're going to sew just till it starts to curve at the top.

So you can see that very faint pencil line that I've drawn.

That just helps me to keep my stitches in line, nice and neat.

So let's get started.

So what you need to do is start at the back of your puppet.

Pull it through and you've got that knot at the back there.

If that knot accidentally comes through, don't worry, just try again and add in another knot so it's a bit of a bigger knot.

And then what we do is we go down up.

Did you see what I did there? And then I can pull it through.

And again, I go down up.

Can you see I'm starting to make a row of stitches.

Now this knot little down up thing is a bit tricky.

Don't worry, let me show you another way.

You can go down and pull it all the way through.

And then what you can do is you can come up on your line pull it all the way through then go down again.

So it's like that running, isn't it? Up down, up down.

And then I come from the back again on my pencil line and down, bit tricky in this one, okay? Okay, let me show you the other way up, down, up.

We make down up See look at my flow of stitches and they're in a nice straight line, aren't they? Because I'm following my pencil line down up.

Down up.

Now everybody what I would like you to do is pause the video, draw yourself that pencil line, and have a go at going up down, up down, up down.

Now when you've reached the end of your pencil line I want you to press play again because I'm going to teach you how to put the knots in it.

So all of that amazing stitching you've just done doesn't come undone.

So pause the video, reach the end of your pencil line and then press play.

I'll see them in it.

Good luck, take your time up down, up down, up down, off you go.

Welcome back everybody.

You can see that I have now reached the end of my pencil line and I hope you've managed to do that too.

Now don't worry if your stitching was tricky today or if it's a bit wonky or if some stitches look neater than others.

Don't worry, today is just our practise.

Now you can see that I've reached the end of my pencil line.

So from our very last stitch, again, I go up down.

But I'm going to go over that stitch again.

So I come up and down over the same stitch.

And my last it is a double stitch.

And then on the back I can put my needle through that last stitch.

So I've made myself a loop and then I'd put my needle through the loop, pull it tight, and I've made a knot and then I can cut it off at the knot.

And I've secured my stitches.

So again, remember do two stitches, two running stitches for your last stitch.

Loop it through the stitch, make a loop, pull your needle through, pull it tight and cut it off.

So now what I would like you to do is knot your last stitch and then join us when you've done that, off you go.

Welcome back my sewing superstars.

I am so proud of you.

Some of you might have just sewn there for the very first time.

Well done if you manage to get any stitches along your mock-up puppet at all.

Now what you might like to do is have some practise when you've got some free time.

So if you enjoyed doing that and you feel like, oh I'd like to try a bit more.

I'd like to perfect it a bit more.

You might like to get yourself some of your old fabric again, and now, you know how to do a running stitch you can have an extra practise.

Let's see what our next joining technique is.

Our next joining technique is stapling.

So make sure you've got your stapler and make sure it's got some staples on the inside.

I'm going to show you how to get started then it'll be your turn.

So I've got my mock-up puppet and I've got my stapler and we're going to staple around the top.

So I'm going to draw in my pencil line again to help me keep everything in a nice straight line.

I'm going to go around the top of my stapler.

So what we do is we need to make sure that our fabric sits under this bit here.

You need to be careful of your fingers when you use a stapler.

So put the fabric inside this mouth of the stapler and we want our pencil line to be in line where you can see this that the staples are going to come out.

Okay, so put your pencil line onto the bit where it's going to come out.

You push down on the stapler.

You always want to hear it do two clicks and click, click all the way through till you can't push it anymore.

Open up, pull out.

We've put myself in our fast staple.

And again, pull your stapler in.

Push it down twice really hard till you can't push it anymore.

And pull it out.

You see I started to go around my pencil line.

So again, one more time, then it'll be your turn.

Let's your fabric underneath the mouth of the stapler like this.

Put down on the table.

Push down till you can't push any more it's almost going to click, click.

Open it up and you have made another staple.

So what I'd like to do now is pause the video, drawing your pencil line across the top, the current bit of your puppet.

Push down with your stapler till you've got a row staples joining a fabrics together and then press play.

Good luck.

Be careful of your fingers, please everybody, off you go.

Welcome back my sewing and stapling superstars.

Did you manage to keep your staples nice and neat and equally spaced? Well done if you did.

Did you manage to make sure they all closed on the back so it's nice and securely joined together? Well done.

Let's see what our next joining technique is.

Our next joining technique is glueing.

So make sure you've got your glue ready.

I'm going to show you then it will be your turn.

So I've got my mock-up puppet and I've got my glue.

Now runny glue is better than this rather than glue sticks, so PVA glue or a fabric glue.

Now what we're going to do is we're going to glue from our staples and around the bit where our thumb goes.

So we're going to go up to about here.

So if you want to draw a pencil line again just to keep you on track that's fine, but make sure you leave a gap at the bottom here.

So what we need to do nice and simple is put a line of glue.

Get our glue to come out nice and neat.

Not in lots and lots of blue, just a little nice neat line in the inside and going all the way around till you want it to stop.

So you can see that I've put my glue nicely, just a small neat line where I want it to go.

Then push down the fabric so it starts to tack together.

Okay, so I give it a few pushes down.

And this will take a little while to dry.

So, when I pull it apart it will already come apart and that's because we need to give it time to dry.

So once you patted it down you need to leave it for a little while to dry.

Okay, so put your glue around the bit where our thumb goes and then you'll be able to join us again for the last finishing technique.

Okay, off you go glueing , good luck.

Welcome back my sewing, stapling, and glueing superstars.

I wonder if you managed to make your glue line really neat.

I wonder if can even notice you've got any glue there.

Well done, we've got one more joining technique to do.

Let's see what is.

Now the last joining technique we're going to do today is called pinning.

So I have got my safety pins ready.

If you don't have any safety pins, but you want to use the pins that have been holding your pattern pieces together, that's fine.

So make sure you've got your pins.

I'll show you how then it's your turn.

So we're going to join the last bit of our mock-up puppets together using pins.

And we've got to join this last bit where our glue finished.

So I've got my safety pin.

So I need to open it up.

And be careful, this bit here is really, really sharp.

So I want you do mind your fingers when you're using these.

I'll show you how to use them.

So we go down the fabric and then we come up the fabric, like we did with our needle on the running stitch.

And then we close the safety pin together.

If you're using one of these dress pins that's also fine, it's the same thing.

We don't need to open anything, but we go down through the puppet and up So you can see that it's been put down and up holding it together.

So what I would like you to do is add in your pins or your safety pins being careful that they're sharp on your fingers.

So you've joined the last bit together.

So pause the video, do your pinning and press play when you're ready, good luck.

Welcome back my sewing, stapling, glueing , and pinning superstars.

We have now made ourselves a mock-up puppet.

So we've had a go at practise using cheaper materials.

Does it fit on your hand? Can you put it on there for me? Okay we've joined the front and the back together using our different joining techniques.

We're going to have to think now.

Which one of these joining techniques did you like the best today? Let's have a think.

Now we're going to evaluate our joining techniques that we've used today.

Which joining technique did you think is the most successful? So which one of these joining techniques that you've used today was the best and why? And which joining technique did you think was the least successful and why? I would like you to pause the video, answer my two questions for me and then press play when you're ready.

Off you go.

Well done for having a think.

I wonder which one you thought was the most successful.

I like my running stitch the best.

I think I like it because I know that my fabric is held together very securely and it looks neat and tidy on my puppet.

But you might notice those staples.

I like the staples as well, because that also really secure.

And they look neat and tidy on my puppet.

I wonder which one you said that was the least successful.

The one you didn't like very much.

The one you perhaps wouldn't use if you were going to do this again.

I wonder what you came up with and why.

I have chosen that safety pins were the least successful.

It's because look at that big gaps, look at that, big gaps in my puppet.

If I was going to make this as a final puppet, a real puppet, a neat puppet, I wouldn't want these big gaps, would I? It also looks a bit messy.

I wonder which one you thought was the least successful, sewing, stapling, glueing , or pinning.

It was your choice.

Well done everybody on making your mock-up using all those joining techniques.

And you have now made a decision, which joining technique you like the best? Now before you go, everybody, I've got a quick exit quiz question that I would like you to answer for me.

Can you tell me one of the joining techniques that we have used on our mock-up puppet today? Tell me one of the techniques that we have used.

Few seconds to think.

Have you got your joining technique ready to tell me? Excellent, tell me now.

Excellent, so you might said sewing, stapling, glueing , or pinning.

Well done if you named any of those.

Again, you are all my superstars.

Now, before you go, everybody if you would like me to have a look at the mock-up that you have made today you can share your work with Oak National and with me.

If you would like to please ask your parent or carer to share your work on Twitter, tagging @OakNational and #LearnwithOak that way I get to see your amazing work that you have done today.

Superstar work, superstar learning today everybody.

I can't wait to see you next lesson.

Bye.