Hi everyone! Welcome to this week’s post, Lane here, and today I’m going to write about my experience planning a crafts display stand for my school’s waste recycling project this month.
So, this month at my school, we have a recycling project where a class is divided into 4 groups consisting 9 students each. And my group got picked to make hand crafts from bottle caps waste. We made stuff like a tissue container, shopping bag, coaster, pencil holder, and a colorful little windchime. And it took a week to finish all of it and they turned out pretty well and this week, we presented it by creating a display stand in front of our class.
My friends and I planned the stand indoor at first, we were confused by how the windchime could be displayed, because you're supposed to hang it onto a ceiling, so we decorated a broken broom holder that’s been lying around for decades at our class and taped it to the back of our stand table. And it works surprisingly well, but next time we will think about how to display them first before making the product. But this windchime ended up being our stand’s specialty, because other class’ groups who also got bottle caps waste as their recycling project didn’t have anything as unique as our windchime. As I observed, the majority of them made pencil holders and shopping bags, but I saw this one gorgeous Starry Night by Van Gogh painting made entirely out of bottle caps waste and I think that deserved to get a big applause.
Another thing that also became our stand’s specialty is our interactive stand. So, right before we got told to make a display stand, we heard rumors about it from the seniors who experienced the same recycling project before. And I immediately thought about making an interactive stand for ours. It’s actually a perfect idea, because we got bottle caps as our recycling material and a week ago when we were brainstorming for product ideas, we kind of got bored with the bottle caps and decided to draw on the surface of the caps with acrylic markers and tied a keychain ring on it. It turned out good—especially ‘cause we’re the artists of the class—so we got addicted to making it. And from that I learned that the best way to make them last longer is to draw on a circle paper, stick them to the surface of the bottle caps and seal it with a self-laminating paper. That’s when I got the idea how this could be massively produced and that thought crossed when I heard the rumors about the display stand. So the night before the craft expo, I made 50 blank bottle cap keychain by cutting small circle papers and sticking it on top of the surface and cutting another 50 circles of the self-laminating papers. The system is; when someone is looking over our crafts, we offer them to make their own keychain that is made out of bottle caps and when they accept we give them a blank bottle cap keychain and also give them markers to draw with doubled as a display props for our pencil holder, and when they’re done, the person on-duty will seal them with the self-laminating papers and give the keychain to person who draw on it as a souvenir and as a thank you gift for visiting our stand. And for the first 2 hours we guard the stand, it sold out! I’m pretty shocked at how many people wants to do it, because I’m worried that no one will at first. But the thing is, it sold out before recess, so there’s no more keychains left.
We also made some stuff for the stand preparation. We made 2 posters to hang in front of the stand, in the first one we drew an average plastic mineral water bottle in the middle but we made arrows pointing to the bottle caps indicating that our stand is all about bottle caps crafts, and we sketched out our finished crafts around the water bottle illustration. And the second poster is for the interactive stand, which is “make-your-own keychain for free!” poster. We also made little cards for each product just in case someone didn’t know what it’s supposed to be. And I made a “step-by-step recipe” for the interactive stand and it’s basically a guide on how to make the keychain. The rest of the preparations is props like table cloth to make our stand look more presentable, some plushies and fake roses to fill up our shopping bag to make it look less empty, the markers used as props for the pencil holder that also doubles as markers for people to use to draw on the keychains, tissues for the tissue container’s props, and lastly a mugs and candies for the extra souvenirs and props for the coaster.
The conclusion is I never knew how fun planning a crafts display stand before, and I’m excited to plan the next crafts expo, it’s rumored to be on February and I hope it is! That’s all for this week’s blog and I’ll see you again in next week’s post.
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