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Creative careers: fashion designer
I can design and make a festival headdress
Lesson 4 of 6
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- Year 6
Creative careers: fashion designer
I can design and make a festival headdress
Lesson details
Key learning points
- A fashion designer is a person who creates original clothing and accessory designs.
- Some fashion designers, called milliners, specialise in designing and making hats, or headdresses.
- Headdresses can vary widely in concept, materials and influences.
Keywords
Fashion designer - a person who creates original clothing and accessory designs
Milliner - a designer or maker who specialises in creating hats and other headwear
Headdresses - a decorative covering or arrangement worn on the head
Common misconception
A fashion collection is an assortment of clothes and accessories with no common theme or coordinating colours.
Remind children that a fashion collection consists of clothes and accessories that share colours, fabrics, or themes designed to showcase the particular style of a fashion designer.
For this lesson, children may wish to bring in small items from home to personalise their headdress.
Teacher tip
Equipment
headbands or strips of card, glue, pipe cleaners, beads, pom poms, tactile materials
Licence
This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2026), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What does the word promote mean when talking about a festival?
What does the word promote mean when talking about a festival?
To cancel the festival and refund tickets
To make it secret and for select people only
To only invite your friends and family
Q2.Which of these is a content creator mostly like to post to promote a festival?
Which of these is a content creator mostly like to post to promote a festival?
A shopping list of items for the festival
A written postcard about a family holiday
Measurements for the stage design
Q3.Social media is ...
Social media is ...
a place where people buy clothes and fashion accessories only
a tool for cooking healthy and wholesome food
a game you play outside to connect with others
Q4.Why is it important to use social media safely and respectfully?
Why is it important to use social media safely and respectfully?
Because social media is an online platform
Because social media is only for playing games
So you can post as many pictures as possible without rules
Q5.Why do some social media platforms have age restrictions?
Why do some social media platforms have age restrictions?
To stop people from sharing pictures with each other
So only teachers can use social media for their classes
Because social media is only for children
Q6.How might content creators help promote a festival?
How might content creators help promote a festival?
By hiding all information about the event
By only talking to their friends in person
By avoiding sharing anything digitally online
Assessment exit quiz
5 Questions
Q1.What does a fashion designer do?
What does a fashion designer do?
Build fashionable houses
Cook meals for fashion models only
Drive vehicles to fashion events only
Q2.What is a milliner?
What is a milliner?
A person who cooks food at festivals
A dancer at a festival
A person who sells tickets for festivals
Q3.Which of these is an example of a headdress?
Which of these is an example of a headdress?
A black and white jacket
A neutral coloured scarf
A pair of shoes with patterns
Q4.What is the main reason festival headdresses are designed carefully?
What is the main reason festival headdresses are designed carefully?
To make people feel sleepy
To make the festival longer
To prepare for bad weather conditions
Q5.Order the steps a fashion designer or milliner might take to make a festival headdress:
Order the steps a fashion designer or milliner might take to make a festival headdress:
