What kind of crafting class are you teaching? fabric painting? If so, that is so cool. A friend of mine makes hand painted totes and scarves. I love to get a gift from her. When I first started teaching classes, I would let the people choose their own design. What a time I had trying to figure out how to make each design work. There are always people in the class that seem to need a lot more help than others and monopolize your time. Now I come in with one design for the group to work on and it cuts down on prep time. The needy people, I help but tell them I need to help the whole group and after helping I move on. Some people just want you to do all the work.
hobbies = metal working, jewelry making, hypertufa, embossing paper/metal, card making, baking breads, collecting cars
interests = reading, hiking, gardening, car shows
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I'm winging it, I just pick a project that I may have worked on at one time or another, that I feel won't be too complicated for this group who really wouldn't have the patience for anything too intricate of requires more than 90 minutes total. Mostly for now I'm working with recyclable matter, like plastic bottles, toilet tissue rolls, newspaper turning them into various decorative items. Not always throw away items like the upcoming project we're using coffee filters to make a table center piece type wreath. Previous project had an Easter theme using 2 liter plastic bottles. I encourage them to improvise and be creative once they get the base idea going.
And yes, some people do need more help than others, still last class was fun, tiresome but still it was fun as no one complained and one or two people even helped out some. I have a feeling the next class won't go as smoothly, but, I'm still hopeful. Oh and I do have one participant who is blind, which makes for quite a bit of extra work, but, her aide came for part of the first half of the class to help her. We place her hands on the bushes, help her find the color she wants and let her paint away.
Just will be using newspaper toilet paper rolls after that if I'm still in town, I'll be doing a jewelry class using plastic bottles.
I'm not a professional, I learn these crafts, putting my own spin on them and then I teach to anyone who wishes to learn. I wish I had taken pictures of the two wreaths I gave away as Easter gifts to a couple of friends, I might be able to get a picture of one the yellow one, but the pink one was the one that I really liked the most, I'll see if I can get that person to snap a picture and send it to me.
