This study was conducted to suggest a method of clothing life education through upcycling. The content of education related to recycling was analyzed for six types of textbooks, and educational materials for making upcycling products were proposed based on this textbook analysis. The results of analyzing the content of education related to the recycling of practical arts and textbooks were as follows. In the practical textbooks for 5th grade, the units containing content related to recycling were the core concepts of “management” (6 types), “creation” (1 type), and “efficiency” (1 type), of which management included the most. In the 6th grade, the core concepts were “living culture” (4 types), “life planning” (1 type), “innovation” (3 types), and “sustainability” (3 types), of which living culture included the most. Most of the recycled materials that appeared in the 5th and 6th grade practical textbooks were clothes, plastic bottles, and milk cartons, while the items to make included bags, cushions, pockets, flower pots, and pencil holders.
 To propose upcycling-based clothing education materials, the following were suggested as recycled materials to use from the textbook analysis: T-shirts (and yarn cut from T-shirts), towels, coffee sacks, blankets, and wrapping paper ribbons.
 Up-cycling fashion design techniques and clothing-related content of the 2015 revised practical curriculum were considered, from which eight were suggested: weaving with sock necks, making sock rings to make baskets, cutting T-shirts and knitting them, cutting and twisting towels to make potholders, making fringe pockets from T-shirts, making scrubbers from coffee sacks, creating brooches from packing ribbons, and duvet fabric. Furthermore, there was a proposal to make coasters using cotton. This study had the limitation of not conducting a verification process on the developed data. However, at a time when interest in the environment (such as climate change) is increasing, recycling classes can be used as basic data for clothing education that considers the environment. Moreover, it is envisaged that it will be necessary to apply the data developed in the future.
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