Edible Arts Fashion Awards 2014

Every year in term two the children of interested classes at Haumoana School are involved in constructing costumes for the Pak’an Save Edible Arts Fashion Awards. This year the theme was ‘Going Global’, an inspiration from every nation.

Here was the information provided to give us the necessary guidelines during our two weeks of planning and construction.

YOUR EDIBLE FASHION AWARDS CREATION

 Get your creative juices flowing and start developing your fun, exciting and innovative

garment. There are just a few rules you need to follow:

  Your design must clearly reflect the GOING GLOBAL theme.

  It must be made from edible items, imitation food items or food packaging (new or

recycled). eg; garments may be made out of real popcorn, plastic corn, plastic or

paper packaging from popcorn.

  Garments must not exceed 2.5m in height or 1.5m in width due to the stage area.

  Please keep the use of marshmallows & chocolate to a minimum.

 WHAT THE JUDGES WILL BE LOOKING FOR?

  An original, creative, fun design that reflects the theme and uses your imagination.

  First Impressions – does the garment grab the attention when first viewed.

  Visual impact – choice of colours and overall look of the garment.

  Utilisation of resources – the use of edible items and imitation food materials.

  Standard of workmanship

  Completeness of look - A complete outfit for example a skirt, top and headgear.

  Inspiration – What inspired your design? – How did you make it?
   

 We looked at what our goals would be to achieve the outcome. All agreed we needed to draw some samples of costume design from different countries, work together in an effective group and plan our selected costume design. Lexi showed some of her expected learning outcomes written in her topic book.

We also discussed fashion worn today and what the children enjoy wearing. Here is a sample of Kaiya's writing.

Fashion Today

 Coloured hair, dresses and hats everywhere! Everybody has their own fashion style. Some people might wear gorgeous hats or a floral; maybe they wear a singlet, a T-shirt and long brimmed or ripped frocks. Some people dye their hair.

I love wearing earrings, runners, sweatshirt and T- shirts everywhere. I also like wearing trackies with zips and borders when it’s hot. Sometimes I wear small frocks and shorts.

Everyone has a different fashion to others

 By Kaiya Read - Butcher

We then got underway by organising our five entries. We needed, in each of our groups, to select a volunteer model to display the costume as well as select the country represented in the group as a theme.
Group 1; Grace, country Samoa
Group 2; Renee, country Mexico
Group 3; Pearl, country Japan
Group 4; Paige, American Squaw
Group 5; Marissa, country Mexico

Now we were able to discuss what appropriate materials should be brought along to reflect that country as well as display edible items to enhance the costume. Tools and construction materials were also listed to be made available.

The groups now met to have an input into what could be designed before construction could get underway. Here are some samples to look at.

Within a week we were underway with the construction of our designed costumes. We are fortunate to have such a supportive group of parents who only want the best learning opportunities for their children and many came on the three days we were building our costumes to offer advice.

Building a Good Group

Building a group means you have to listen to other people’s ideas and work together. You should always get your material laid out on your table. Never shout at one of your members of your team.

 In my team for edible arts two people were working on the props and the other two people were working on the dress. We each shared our ideas and listened to them. We laid our equipment on the table and thought about what to do.By Liberty Jackson

There was a fascination for the glue gun, having made available three of them using high quality tubes of builders adhesive to attach the numerous edible objects. It stuck to their fingers, found its way on the carpet(sorry cleaners) and also smeared onto some clothes(sorry parents).
But the exercise was a wonderful experience for the children having learnt to plan in detail, bring along designated material, and team up as effective groups to achieve their goals.

The midterm assembly was also a huge success, when two of the Edible Arts organisers attended to celebrate our 15 entrants into the competition. Our competitors displayed their costumes, strutted their stuff on the catwalk to the upbeat music, much to the pleasure of over a 100 parents and supporters who attended.

AND on Saturday 31 May the children’s hard work was rewarded on the morning of the Pak’an Save Edible Arts Fashion Parade in the Hawkes Bay Showgrounds. Of the eight junior contestants selected to go through to the evening awards, seven were from Haumoana School. Well done You!