HOW DO I MAKE 3D model showing how a cotton shirt is formed from cotton?

Question

school project for 8 yr old,class4 student.

Answer 1

The steps mentioned before are good (maybe also adding cotton growing in a field or being picked, and/or a cotton gin), but you have to make a "model" of that. So I guess you could still use photos (from the internet), but glue them onto or into a "factory" or cotton mill diorama (could be as simple as a box cut down so that only one or two "walls" remain).

You could draw or paint windows on the walls like those you'd see in an old factory, then paste or tape the photos (vertically) inside the factory on little stands or boxes (...the cotton boll photo could sitting be beside the spinning machine, or on the wall as a "picture" or something).
You could also put a small doll or figure of some kind standing by the machines.

Of course, you could always make little items from cardboard or play dough (or polymer clay), etc., for some of the parts inside the factory too, but at your age that might not be expected?

Here are some photos that might help:

http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLC,GGLC:1969-53,GGLC:en&q=cotton+mill

http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLC,GGLC:1969-53,GGLC:en&q=cotton+manufacturing


http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLC,GGLC:1969-53,GGLC:en&q=cotton

http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLC,GGLC:1969-53,GGLC:en&q=cotton+gin

http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLC,GGLC:1969-53,GGLC:en&q=shirt+factory
(avoid looking at the *t-shirt* factories)


This is assuming you want to show a cotton shirt being made in a factory, not by a pioneer, etc., at home spinning and weaving the cotton into a shirt.


HTH,

Diane B.

Answer 2

start with a cotton plant. then a cotton ball. then a factory making the cotton into thread. then dying and weaving the cloth. then cutting the pattern and sewing the shirt.
annetta51