Here are some great beginner Wearable Projects — for students, or anyone else who wants to get started! Here’s more from Science Buddies:
Students can get started with wearables by doing projects using conductive and insulating thread to add sewn circuits to existing fabrics, like a jacket or backpack. Creating simple e-textile circuits helps students learn about soft circuits, develop circuit-building skills, and explore questions related to design, durability, and battery life.
Students ready to design and build more sophisticated wearables can experiment with more complex circuits and can explore adding a microcontroller and using Arduino to program wearables with specific functionality.