Description
Fabricate a useful accessory using professional leatherworking tools. View the walkthrough video for this activity here!
Recommended age range: Grades 7-12
Approximate activity duration: 2 hours
Each kit contains materials for 30 students.
This activity allows students to transform died leather into functional and fashionable accessories using only a few tools. Leatherworkers, dressmakers, tailors, and textile manufacturers rely on the same techniques to repair and construct products for many industries.
Curriculum linkages to explore:
- Safety
- Motor skills
- Fine arts
- Language arts: comprehension, vocabulary development, fluency
- Math: measurement, unit conversions, shape and space relations, number sense and relation, fractions and decimals, geometry, patterns and relations
- Science: matter and energy, mechanical systems, structures and forces
- High school Career and Technology Studies, Special Projects
