Video: Art: Clothes and fashion

﻿Hi everyone, my name is Matt. And today we're going to learn about art. And in this lesson we're going to learn how to communicate preferences for colours and materials and how to select and use specific tools for their correct purpose. Our key vocabulary is "tools, fabric, squeeze" "colours, choose" and "clothes." For this lesson you will need, a t-shirt or some old fabric, preferably white, food colouring or fabric dye, old plastic bottles, elastic bands, gloves and an apron, and a tray. You will need some parental care or help or supervision when using the food colouring and fabric dye because it could stain your skin or something else. Let's get ready. Find a quiet and clear space to work away from distractions. Check that you are comfortable and ready to begin learning. This activity could be messy, so check that you are wearing suitable clothing and that you cover your table or wherever you are working. Make sure that your resources are nearby. Press pause while you get everything ready. It's time to get ready. Look, listen, learn. The first part of our lesson is about making choices. So we need to think about choosing the right material, and the right colour and the right equipment and tools that we need to tie dye a piece of material. First, I need a material that's light in colour so I can see the different dyes. Which piece of material is the light material? If you need to pause the video through the next three questions, feel free to pause when you need to. Which piece of material is light? This piece of material is white and it's lighter than this piece. So I'm going to choose this to make my tie dye. I need to choose the right tools to do what I need to do with my material. And I need something to protect my hands to keep them safe from the dye. Should I choose a pair of gloves or a shoe? Again, if you need to pause the video, feel free to pause it now. I'm going to choose the gloves because I think they will keep my hands nice and safe from the dye. The final choice is a choice about colour. You will have some dyes at home that you can use for this lesson. I would like you to choose the colour that you would like to use. I'm going to choose red. Wow, so we've made three choices. We've chosen a light fabric or piece of material, we've chosen the right tools to protect our hands from the dye, and we've chosen a colour that we would like to use to make our tie dye material. Pause the video to complete your task. Resume again once you're finished. Now let's think about the tools and their purpose for today. We need dye. Dye will change the colour of our fabric. We need a bottle to pour our dye into so that we can squeeze it on our fabric to change its colour. We need elastic bands to hold our fabric together nice and tightly. We also need some special clothes to keep our own clothes and our hands safe. So we've used an apron to protect our clothes, and we've used gloves to protect our hands, and we've used a table covering to protect our table too. Pause the video to explore the tools that you have. Make sure that they are the right tools to do the job that we need to do. You could talk about this with your parents or carer. When you're ready, press play and carry on. Now we're going to make our piece of tie dye material. I need to put an apron on to keep my clothes safe. I've covered my table in case I make a bit of a mess. And I've got a tray to help catch some of the liquid and to put my tie dye piece of material in. First, I'm going to put my apron on over my head and around my waist. I'm going to tie it up so I don't make a mess. Next I put a pair of gloves to protect my hands. It's one of the choices we made earlier. Putting my gloves on. One glove, and the next glove. They're very tight these gloves. To keep my hands nice and safe. There we go, brilliant! I think they're okay. So I'm now going to pour my dye into my squeezey bottle because I'm going to get ready to squeeze squeeze squeeze in a minute to make a pattern on my fabric. We'll make sure the lid's on and that's ready. Now you need your t-shirt. And we need to lay it nice and flat on a surface. We might be on the floor or on a table. And we're going to twist our t-shirt into a big big spiral circle. So we're going to take our hands and pinch, and twist, and pinch, and twist, and pinch, and twist, and pinch, and twist, and hold it. You need to get your elastic bands so that they're ready and we're going to put our first band across the shirt like that. Make sure all the material is ready. And we're going to get another elastic band and we're going to put it across the middle. And they cross to hold it all together. If you need to ask a parent or carer to help you, then that'll be brilliant I'm sure. Now that we have our t-shirt, we're going to put it inside our tray. Here's the piece of light material that you chose. And here is our red dye. Next you have to squeeze your dye onto your fabric or your t-shirt. And then make sure you do big squeezes. Wow! And our t-shirt is starting to change colour. We can put more dye on if we want to. When you're happy with the dye on the top, turn your t-shirt over, put it back in the tray and get ready to squeeze some more. Squeeze! Wow look at that! Our t-shirt is going to look really art-y. We've finished dyeing our t-shirt now. We need to leave it to dry for a day. We'll come and take a look at it later. Now it's your turn to have a go at making your own tie dye piece of fabric or t-shirt. Remember to squeeze the bottle with the dye in to take care and to create some brilliant patterns. Pause the video now while you try your turn. Wow! Here's my finished tie dye. What does yours look like? You've worked really hard following instructions and making choices to create your own piece of fashion using material and tie dye. Well done! You've worked really hard! If you want to make the lesson a little easier, then try limiting the choice of tools or materials to two items but only one at a time. To make it harder, use more than one colour when dyeing your material. Or if you wanted to try another idea, why not choose different ways of tying your fabric to create new patterns? That's the end of today's art session. Art is finished. I hope you enjoyed learning with us today and that you've made something really special that you feel really proud of. You've worked really hard. Well done and we'll see you next time. Why not share your work with Oak National? If you'd like to, please ask your parent or carer to share your work on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter tagging @OakNational and #LearnwithOak.

Lesson summary: Art: Clothes and fashion

In this lesson we will make choices about colours, materials and tools to tie-dye an item using natural dyes. Adult supervision is necessary for this lesson.

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