Making Mends Kids:
A playful and hands-on mending workshop

Making Mends Kids is designed for children to playfully explore notions of breakage and repair through worksheets and hands on activities. Making Mends Kids teaches the skills for visible mending, a style of repairing damaged or worn-out clothing. Visible mending not only restores wear and tear, but is also an act of care that allows a garment to grow and transform with us, taking on a new life and carrying with it the memories of previous ones.

Program Overview

Making Mends Kids is a modular workshop. Facilitators can mix and match activities from the 8 chapters of Making Mends Kids to create a suitable bundle for thier lesson plan for learing goals of the children.

Mending a Leaf

Our Making Mends icebreaker is, of course, also part of the Kids version! Let the students' imagination bloom as they explore the fragility of leaves.

2. About me

An introduction exercise suitable for when working with a new group of students.

3. Look into my Wardrobe

Why do you like a certain garment? Why do you dislike another? A fun activity for children to reflect on their wardrobes.

4. All Things Repair and Mending

Chapter 4 explores themes of breakage, repair, and community by asking children to reflect on their own experiences. Children talk about things they've broken in the past, repairers in their family or community, and draw how they would repair a t-shirt.