I got lucky that Angie had pictures of necklaces made out of bike parts at my workshop, but I feel that having lots of very different pictures of necklaces made out of bike parts would help them come up with more creative ideas.
I also feel that we would've benefitted by laying out more bike parts rather then beads because like a few of us did, we went striaght for the colorful beads instead of focusing on the recycling the bike parts.
P.R. was another thing I could've improved on. No one outside our class came, which happens. This unfortuately didn't give me much opportunity to teach what the lesson plan had mapped out because my classmates knew what to do. I know my workshop was up on the BICAS website, which is great. I suppose I could've made a facebook event to draw people in as well. Creating flyers would be a good idea for the future as well.
Organizing our materials may have helped benefit us. I know things got a bit messy, but that's just how it goes sometimes.
I was could suggest to people in the future to brainstorm and sketch out their ideas before they start making their necklaces so they have an idea of what they are doing. Although, some people work better by just diving into an art project.
Another thing that may have helped us is simply bringing snacks. I know by the end of the workshop I was pretty hungrey and definately looking forward to leaving. Brain food helps everything, especially when it comes to being creative!
Well, that's all for now. My workshop went as well as it could have given the circumstances. I made some pretty cool necklaces for the art auction and met some cool people who worked for Americorps-Southwest Conservation Corps.
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