Year 6’s Design Technology Christmas Stockings

This week Year 6 started creating some outstanding stockings by using brilliant coloured felt and thread; also they were provided with a sharp needle. To start off with the children had to evaluate the stockings from previous years and others which had been bought from the supermarket. They answered questions like: ‘why do you think this material has been used?’ These got many fantastic answers!

Next the children created wonderful designs - there were many vibrant and warm colours filling the page!!

Then, they all had to write a set of helpful instructions, which they could use like a recipe for a cake; this took a while but it was all worth it.

Finally came the exciting part – we began sewing. At first it was very tricky for new sewers, but they soon got the hang of it and everybody had their head down working extremely hard on their stockings. As time passed you could walk past the room and see startling stockings filling the room with Christmas spirit and striking Christmas colours!!

The next thing you knew was that everybody had a fabulous handmade stocking to admire and take home…now Year 6 is going start their Christmas party and hopefully have a lot of fun.

By Amy, Year 6.