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FerienKinderUni: "Wardrobe Research Workshop
The children should wear durable and weather-appropriate clothing.
With agricultural engineer Ines Fehrmann and student Tony Lindenau.
Clothes: We love them and wear them every day, or we keep pushing them to the back of the closet. After all, we have enough of them! Every person in Germany consumes around 14 kg of clothing a year, which is equivalent to 140 T-shirts. But where do the clothes actually come from, who made them and what kind of raw materials are in them?
For one week, the children explore plant fibers from bananas to nettles under professional guidance. They use all their senses in the tropical greenhouse, feel out manufacturing processes and explore the journey of their clothes from the field to the closet and beyond with the help of research assignments, microscopes and practical and creative tasks. There are a whole host of questions to answer: Which plant is hiding in my jeans, which in the car or in the twine? What does cotton need to grow and what does a disappearing lake have to do with my jeans? The children decide democratically how the program should be adapted according to their wishes.
On Monday, the researchers discover different fiber plants and find out where the fibers are in the plant. They try out how to extract them and think about what they can be used for. Small experiments may show how large fertile fields become areas where nothing grows.
Tuesday is all about the journey of clothing from the plant to the closet. The children go on a world tour with their jeans. Are there really children who help harvest the fibers and therefore don't go to school? Do they like it? The children do research, spin and weave. They experience what it must feel like to work in a sewing factory, they encounter "toxic" T-shirts and learn about alternatives.
On Wednesday, the focus is on people and children. What is my favorite clothing and why? What is important to me? Is it similar in other countries? Children will learn about West African crafts at the museum, learn the difference between industrially produced pieces and handmade, and explore creative uses of cloth. Explorers can then test different fibers for their properties. Why does cotton make a good bandage and what does a banana do in a tea bag?
Thursday is the first day for detectives: the task is to solve a criminal case. The children have to use their intuition to find out what kind of clothes the culprit was wearing. Microscopes and magnifying glasses are used to solve the case! Close observation and deduction are called for here.
Fashion designers with creativity are then challenged: What actually happens to our old clothes? Quite simply, we make something new out of it in our fashion workshop, depending on taste e.g. shoulder bags, hair bands, cell phone holders or small stuff boxes.
Finishing all the weaving, art or sewing projects we started is the goal on Friday. The young researchers are also sure to find answers to one or two research questions.
To keep up with the strenuous work, there will be a breakfast break together.
Note: Subject to all approvals - in compliance with the applicable hygiene regulations . Please note that we have to react flexibly to current regulations and requirements!
Cooperation of Bildung trifft Entwicklung, Bündnis für Familie and WeltGarten Witzenhausen.
For children from 8-12 years, 80€/child.
Ines Fehrmann 05542/72812. registration until 10 October.