Project Runway

In our seventh and eighth grade theatre arts classes, we have been very busy "making it work" over the past six weeks! We modeled a lesson off of the Lifetime television hit TV show, Project Runway. The students had to design an outfit for a boy and for a girl, vote on their five favorite designs, and in groups, create those outfits using non-traditional materials! (And by non-traditional, we are talking TRASH!) They brought in supplies and spent a full week molding, sewing, taping, and gluing their outfits together until we came up with 5 outfits per class. The classes then voted for their favorite out of those top five. It was fun and they learned a lot about costume design!

Here are some examples of their designs:

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(The pictures were taken with my phone, so they are not the best quality of photo.)

4TH PERIOD DESIGNS:

7TH PERIOD DESIGNS:










(My apologies to my students if I left your design off of the picture collages. I believe some may be missing, but I had no intentions of purposely doing that. Love you all!)

4TH PERIOD RUNNERS-UP:

7TH PERIOD RUNNERS-UP:


THE MODELS:
4TH PERIOD:

7TH PERIOD:

WINNING DESIGNS:

Congrautlations to Salma (period four), for her winning design, and her group for putting together a beautiful, pink, plastic table cloth dress which caught the judges' eyes!


Congratulations to Amanda (period seven), for her winning design, and her group for putting together a fabulous, feather-riffic cat outfit which caught the judges' eyes!

Congratulations to all of the 7th and 8th grade theatre students for your hard work and participation in this project! I see some future designers amongst us all!

In the words of Tim Gunn: "Make it Work!"