Male Textiles

This idea is a simple magnetic closure textile project aimed at Male and Female students at KS3 (11-14 years). Spare headphone cable is wound round it and then it is attached to clothing to keep headphones close. I call the project SideWinder


I developed it from a project called 'lightband' for which there are free resources for on youtube and also at www.nelc.net under their 'not a desk tidy' directory of resources

Am supporting teachers trying this over the next couple of weeks with classes. It uses felt for the main material, two layers with a neodymium 10mm magnet and washer fixed between the layers. Simple, effective and capable of infinite variations by students and staff...