Become a Scrapbook Instructor

Think you’ve got a knack for teaching? Sharing scrapbooking in classes and workshops at your local scrapbook mercantile establishment or on your own can be a advantage way to transport in some extra money. While this might seem like an easy way to kind a few bucks, there are actually a lot of things to take into consideration before you venture into teaching.

Obviously, you’re going to person to be nearly an person in the field before you can show other group how to scrapbook, but that just takes practice. This is a advantage way to promote direct sales as well if you’ve decided to sell scrapbooking products.

There are literally hundreds of group out there – even in the smallest town – who poverty to learn how to preserve their memories in gorgeous, impressive scrapbooks. The key location is marketing yourself and your classes in the most cost-efficient way possible.

The great situation about scrapbooking is that almost everyone has pictures. Anyone can learn to scrapbook. A passion to pirate others how to preserve their family memories is a great attribute to person if considering being a scrapbook instructor.

If you person a local scrapbook store, contact them and see if you might be able to grasping a class at their facility. Usually, they’re blessed to accommodate since they are selling the supplies that you will be using, so their sales are almost pledge to rise during your workshop.

Contact mercantile establishment owners and talk to them about being a “guest teacher” or a regular instructor at their store. Kind an appointment with the mercantile establishment owner so that you can transport samples of projects and layouts that you person done. Person a list handy of all of the classes that you person inform or classes that you are willing to teach.

If you don’t person a scrapbook mercantile establishment or poverty to grasping the workshop on your own, look into renting out a facility. You may also be able to find free accommodations with a local gathering center or undergraduate citizen facility. This is a great hobby for the undergraduate set, so you may poverty to trade services for facilities to instruct the older community.

When picking out a place to grasping your class, kind sure it is well-lit and that there is plenty of room for everyone to spread out and work efficiently.

When having classes, pick out a theme. A advantage rule of thumb is to schedule classes about 2 weeks after an important event. Then center your instruction on creating pages from the photos that your students person taken. Some content for occasions should include:

• Christmas

• Easter

• Valentine’s Day

• Fourth of July

• Graduation

• New Year’s

• First Day of School

• Thanksgiving

• Summer Vacation

You’ll also poverty to schedule periodic classes for other special occasions such as:

• Weddings

• Engagements

• Sports

• Military

• Retirement

• Anniversary

• Pregnancies

You need to figure out what your costs are going to be and how much you will need to kind to realize a profit. Most educator will charge a entrance fee. You shouldn’t kind it too steep - $5-$10 will suffice. However, you need to decide if you will be supplying materials or if the group attending will person to purchase the supplies themselves or transport along their own.

Keep in mind that you will be teaching group how to put together their own scrapbooks. This will be much easier if you’re teaching everyone with the same materials. Consider rise the entry fee a little and providing all entrants with the materials they’ll need to create a memorable scrapbook page.

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