Design and Construction of Fabric-Face Mask for Public Primary Schools in Lafia local Government Area of Nasarawa State

This study designed and constructedface mask using fabrics for post COVID-19 usage by pupils in public primary schools in Lafia local government, Nasarawa State.The research design of this study are Research and Development (R/D) and descriptive survey. Population for the study comprised four thousand three hundred and fifty(4,350) public Primary school pupils of ages 3-5 years and6-9 years and 108 teachers. The sample size for this study is three hundred and twenty-five (325) persons made up of two hundred and seventeen (217) pupils and 85 teachers. Sample size was obtained using “Table for Sample size determination from population’’ The study was guided by three specific objectives. Instruments for data collection were Measurement fabrictapes and Questionnaire titled”Design and Construction of Fabric- Face Mask (DACFFMQ). Resultswere analyzed using percentage and frequency. Results shows that severalfactors militate against the use of Face Mask by pupils in public Primary schools. Some of the factors are: Poor adult supervision, cultural belief, High rate of activity in class each with (X=3.70) respectively. Result on preferences include mostpreferred shape of designed constructed fabric face masks is cone (45%), most preferred fabric is cotton (60%)and most preferred coloris Sky blue (60%). Pupils selected colors based on the color of their uniforms.