what did you make in DT lessons

alright so think back to your DT lessons at school

what do you remember making?

in woodwork we made a spatula and my mum was still using it like ten years on until recently, in metal work i remember making a coat hanger and an animal (i picked a scorpion). and in sewing we made a slipper and a pillow case.

i was alright at making stuff tbh but the process was dragged out so much just to make these tiny things. i can't recall how many design sheets i had to do for a bloody coat hanger but jesus i was at the end of my tether

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I remember making a clock out of plastic and a key chain with my name engraved on out of metal

@Martin; oooh the clock sounds good

you've reminded me about plastic work now but i can't for the life of me think what we did in it

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Originally Posted by -:Undertaker:-

@Martin; oooh the clock sounds good

you've reminded me about plastic work now but i can't for the life of me think what we did in it

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It seems like an eternity ago now haha! We're so old!

I vaguely remember the plastic edges being really hard to get smooth once I had cut them to shape which bugged me for ages. We were learning about clock mechanisms and stuff at the time and had to design our own haha. I don't know what happened to it actually :o Probably broke and got binned :(

Umm in year 7/8 dt we made like a necklace of our initials out of some melted metal and a cuttlefish cast which I still have. It was pretty cool cos I was the first one to finish so I was the first to pour the metal, so I got to wear the big gloves and mask and all the gear and pour it! Then the teacher decided it'd take too long for everyone so nobody else got to pour it he did it for them so I was the only one which I was happy about lmfao

Then we also made a clock out of plastic like Martin, mine was a PacMan ghost which is still up in the kitchen haha

In gcse product design I made a mobile out of balsa wood which was SHIT but I got an A somehow even tho the teacher laughed when he saw it

errr made a key rack I made it into a loveheart pmsl it was awful

We made a lamp and had to encorporate electronics and circuit boards into it as well. In textiles I made an aapron and a tea cosy. For the rest of the time I did food tech, the teachers both wanted me so I had double food tech :D

In year 7 in woodwork we made a pencil holder, we had to choose an animal to be the back of it. I chose a cat, even though it looks more like an owl, but I still have it.

The first couple of years in textiles we did cross stitching and weaving, but it was fun. In year 9 we made a pillow, I never finished mine, but I'm so bad at sewing anyway.

In others we did magazines etc.

In product design in year 9 we had to make a picture holder and design and create the packaging it went in. I chose the theme of Manchester United and made a picture holder in a shirt shape it was pretty cool.

In GCSE I took product design, I wanted to take woodwork, but they wouldn't allow any girls to take it. We had to make a magazine and a free gift to go with it, I chose a children's magazine so I made a clock that you could take the numbers out of and rearrange to help children tell the time.

The magazines were really bad to make as I was used to Photoshop or Fireworks and we only had Photoshop Elements to do it and it was rubbish.

A key fob with a light, a scooby doo out of wood that could move the tail. Some box thing out of wood too. And some sort of lamp!

we made a little container with little drawers coming from it, it was rly cute. it was coming towards christmas and they said it was a "reusable advent calendar" that we'd stock up ourselves. it was a cute idea but i could never stock it up because i'd just eat the chocolate as i was filling it tbh. i fill it for my nieces every christmas now though