eTextiles & Wearables Crazy Headwear Challenge

Crazy Headwear Challenge

90-180 min

Ages 8+

What Will You Learn?

Now it is time to get 3 dimensional and make a fashion tech piece to wear! Design and make some kind of headwear that tells a story. The only rule you have to follow is that it has to have a circuit that lights up somewhere on it to enhance your story.

Headwear can include hats, headbands, scarves, wigs, or anything else that is worn on the head.

Remind students that the elements of fashion design still apply, even in headwear! The head croquis and Design Notes can be used to ideate.

About This Adventure

Today, fashion designers are not limited to fabrics in their designs. Technology has become part of our story and is much more accessible. Young designers can use tech such as lights, sensors, and microcontrollers to tell their stories.

In this adventure, you will experience and experiment as we go through the MakeFashion Edu process to support campers as they:

learn – about the elements of fashion and circuits
design – a story and the wearable
construct – a fashion tech piece using recyclable materials and lights
exhibit – be seen! Our favorite medium is the runway.

You will be able to support your designers as they find their voices and tell their own stories through fashion pieces they create and share.

This adventure is divided into several sections, each with its own projects. The bolded project denotes the page you are on. The arrows mark the section you are in.

Storytelling with Fashion

Using Circuits in Fashion

Using Elements of Fashion Design

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Exhibiting Student Work

Inspiration

If you need some inspiration go to this link and scroll down (but don’t copy, be your own designer). Or take a look at the designs below!

Victoria

My brother is a musician, so I wanted to make him a hat that showed this part of his personality.

Victoria

Isabella

I believe you can be creative with whatever you have around, so I used scratch paper and fingernail polish to create this giant bow.

Isabella

Italia

I am a feathers, flowers and sparkles kind of girl, but that doesn't mean I am not strong too. The lights represent how my brain lights up when I get to be creative.

Italia

About MakeFashion

MakeFashion Edu is an international non-profit working to promote learning through fashion and tech. Through hosting workshops, reach-out and push-in activities, and larger events, MakeFashion Edu sees providing access for young designers to go to industry and project-based learning as one way to pull local communities together.

SteamHead makerspace is a network of people, spaces, and events who collaborate to improve equity in education as the path forward. We believe that by embracing design thinking and a maker-mindset, education can be more engaging and meaningful, and with that more effective in preparing students for success. Check their website for their courses.