KS1 Materials | Textiles, Fabrics and Sewing

Design/Technology Quiz - Textiles, Fabrics and Sewing (Questions)

This quiz addresses part of the requirements of the National Curriculum KS1 Design and Technology for children aged 5 and 6 in years 1 and 2. Specifically it looks at textiles, fabrics and basic skills like sewing. It is one of 10 quizzes to help you with designing and making useful things, and finding out about how things are made.

There are lots of things you can make from sewing together textiles. Clothes, sheets, covers, bags and towels are all made from textiles. So are cushions, wall hangings and curtains. Textiles use soft materials or fabrics, usually cotton or wool. They can be decorated with embroidery or as a tapestry.

Textiles can be man-made. But many textiles are made from cotton cloth. What is another word for the cloth?

[ ]	Plastic
[ ]	Fabric
[ ]	Rubber
[ ]	Base

Most clothes are made from pieces of cloth. The pieces of cloth are ____ together.

[ ]	Welded
[ ]	Stuck
[ ]	Glued
[ ]	Sewn

What is used to sew clothes together?

[ ]	Cotton thread
[ ]	Steel wire
[ ]	Copper wire
[ ]	String

Lucy is making a jumper. She makes it from wool. Lucy is ________ the jumper.

[ ]	Mixing
[ ]	Cooking
[ ]	Baking
[ ]	Knitting

Maria is making a skirt. The design is on thin pieces of paper. Maria pins the paper to the cloth. She cuts round the design on the paper. The design on the paper is called a _______.

[ ]	Video
[ ]	Portrait
[ ]	Pattern
[ ]	Parcel

Jack has made a hat. What can he use to decorate the hat?

[ ]	Ribbon
[ ]	Chocolate
[ ]	Wood
[ ]	Polythene

Which of these can be made from textiles?

[ ]	Cushion covers
[ ]	Pillow cases
[ ]	Curtains
[ ]	All three of them

Harry is designing an umbrella. What sort of fabric does he need for the umbrella?

[ ]	Very heavy
[ ]	Waterproof
[ ]	Very flimsy
[ ]	Very expensive

Sarah has just made a cushion cover. She decides to decorate it by sewing patterns into it with colourful thread. This is called __________.

[ ]	Knitting
[ ]	Threading
[ ]	Embroidery
[ ]	Painting

10.

Callum is designing a cover for his mobile phone. His mobile phone is red. Callum wants the cover to match his mobile phone. Which of these colours of cloth would be best for Callum to use?

[ ]	Green
[ ]	Black
[ ]	Pink
[ ]	Blue

Design/Technology Quiz - Textiles, Fabrics and Sewing (Answers)

Textiles can be man-made. But many textiles are made from cotton cloth. What is another word for the cloth?

[ ]	Plastic
[x]	Fabric
[ ]	Rubber
[ ]	Base

Sometimes cloth or fabric is just called ‘material’

Most clothes are made from pieces of cloth. The pieces of cloth are ____ together.

[ ]	Welded
[ ]	Stuck
[ ]	Glued
[x]	Sewn

What is used to do the sewing? - A needle

What is used to sew clothes together?

[x]	Cotton thread
[ ]	Steel wire
[ ]	Copper wire
[ ]	String

Can you get the thread through the eye of the needle? It’s not easy!

Lucy is making a jumper. She makes it from wool. Lucy is ________ the jumper.

[ ]	Mixing
[ ]	Cooking
[ ]	Baking
[x]	Knitting

Most hand-knitting is done with two long needles

Maria is making a skirt. The design is on thin pieces of paper. Maria pins the paper to the cloth. She cuts round the design on the paper. The design on the paper is called a _______.

[ ]	Video
[ ]	Portrait
[x]	Pattern
[ ]	Parcel

What does Maria use to cut round the pattern?

Jack has made a hat. What can he use to decorate the hat?

[x]	Ribbon
[ ]	Chocolate
[ ]	Wood
[ ]	Polythene

Ribbon is used a lot for decoration and to make sashes

Which of these can be made from textiles?

[ ]	Cushion covers
[ ]	Pillow cases
[ ]	Curtains
[x]	All three of them

Can you make a list of all the things that can be made from textiles? It could be a very long list!

Harry is designing an umbrella. What sort of fabric does he need for the umbrella?

[ ]	Very heavy
[x]	Waterproof
[ ]	Very flimsy
[ ]	Very expensive

The umbrella must keep the rain out

Sarah has just made a cushion cover. She decides to decorate it by sewing patterns into it with colourful thread. This is called __________.

[ ]	Knitting
[ ]	Threading
[x]	Embroidery
[ ]	Painting

Embroidery uses a needle and thread

10.

Callum is designing a cover for his mobile phone. His mobile phone is red. Callum wants the cover to match his mobile phone. Which of these colours of cloth would be best for Callum to use?

[ ]	Green
[ ]	Black
[x]	Pink
[ ]	Blue

Pink is the nearest of these colours to red