About the Recipe
We should think of our clothes as our friends. They are there when we need support and comfort.
They create joy, hold memories and develop our identity. They travel with us on our bodies, helping us experience the world. But our clothing also experiences the world too.
Let’s imagine that our clothes are our friends and a world where our clothes come to life!
Ingredients
A (favourite) item of clothing from your wardrobe.
Paper/notepad
Drawing tools (pens, pencils, crayons etc.)
Activity 2 Only: Additional clothing/shoes/accessories.
DESIGNED RESOURCES
You can use these resources digitally or printed:
Fashion Friends Reflect, Explore & Draw Activity Sheet
Fashion Friends Story Building Activity Sheet
EXTRA: Repair and Care Resources
Method
LET’S EXPLORE OUR (FASHION) FRIENDS!
There are two activity sheets in this recipe.
You can complete the activity sheets either digitally/online, printed on paper or view them online & write your answers & create your drawing on your own paper or notepad.
ACTIVITY 1 – REFLECT, EXPLORE & DRAW
Exploring Our (Fashion) Friends
1. Introduce the recipe. See the ‘About’ section.
2. Choose one of your favourite items of clothing. We will be exploring how this item of clothing is like your friend.
3. Place the clothing item physically in front of you.
4. Complete the Fashion Friends Reflect, Draw and Explore Activity Sheet.
ACTIVITY 2 - THE THEATRE OF YOUR CLOTHES
Acting as our (Fashion) Friends!
In Activity 1, you explored who your Fashion Friend might be if they were a person or character.
You will now create stories and performances, exploring what it might be like to actually be your fashion friend!
You will need at least 2 players to create this performance (but you can have many more too!)
ACTIVITY 2 - THE THEATRE OF YOUR CLOTHES
Acting as our (Fashion) Friends!
1. Complete the Story Building Activity Sheet to further develop your fashion friend character and the story you will be acting out.
Each player will perform a different role as their Fashion Friend character in your story/performance.
All players need to complete a sheet. However, complete the activity sheets together as a group to build your story.
Optional: Play music while dressing up!
2. Each player will be acting as their Fashion Friend character.
You will each need to dress-up as your Fashion Friend.
Wear your fashion friend (the chosen clothing item you explored to create this character).
Find and dress-up in other clothing that you think your Fashion Friend Character would wear.
Create and dress-up in an entire outfit!
3. Once you have each completed the Story Building Activity Sheet and you have dressed up in and as your Fashion Friend Character, your task is to perform your story!
You can practice as many times as you like.
You can perform by yourselves or ask friends and family to watch your performance!
REPAIR & CARE RESOURCE
Looking after our Fashion Friends
How do you treat your friends? You probably treat them with kindness, care for them and have fun with them!
But how do you treat your clothes? Looking after our clothing is a careful, compassionate and mindful act.
You treat your friends with kindness. We need to do the same with our clothes, aka, our Fashion Friends.
Your clothes probably have stains, holes, rips and tears on them. That is perfectly normal! Your clothing is meant to be and should be worn over and over again. The longer you wear and keep your clothing the better!
However, it is important we repair (fix) any issues so we can keep wearing and loving our clothing for longer. We can:
Wash our clothes, only when they need it.
Clean & remove stains.
Repair & mend holes or tears.
If you see a stain, hole, rip, tear or any other issues, fix these issues with your young people.
Use the ‘Fixing Fashion’ website + ‘Fixing Fashion Academy’.
They have lots of fun and creative activities to customise your clothing too!
You and your young person can learn together how to best care, repair and upgrade your clothing.