We recently connected with Keshia Golden and Tangela Woodberry and have shared our conversation below.
Keshia and Tangela, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.
It has been a fun ride learning how to bring different artistic fun to kids of all ages. We are always practicing new techniques and trying out new ingredients to bring unique creative fun to our slimes. We practice at home, watch many YouTube videos and rely on our own creative ideas to keep our ideas young and fresh. One of our favorite creations to date is the mermaid slime we created with a group of girls at a dance summer camp. We were able to create a metallic slime and add many sensory items like beads, pearls, seashells, and actual mermaid figurines to create a mermaid scenery. The kids at that camp were ecstatic. that experience set the bar for us to always come with fresh ideas.
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
What started as a kind gesture to help a friend quickly turned into a realization of our purpose for something huge. Kreative Kidz Workshop was born after helping a friend with her slime party business as she relocated to another state. We both fell in love with the idea of children creating something with their hands, their own likeness, and uniqueness and we began to brainstorm on how we could build a business that offered more fun and more creativity. Together, we began research and Kreative Kidz Workshop was born. We offer mobile arts and crafts entertainment services for children of all ages. Our activities include slime making, tie dye, build a teddy bear, jewelry making, painting. cupcake decorating and sand art creations. We service a wide arrange of clients ranging from parents throwing parties for their kids, to schools and summer camp facilities who are looking for creative arts and crafts entertainment. While our workshops are fun, it is filled with educational components. That is what our clients like most about out workshops. It’s fun AND educational!
Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?
One of the struggles every new small business encounters is building its inventory! As regular everyday people who just stepped out on faith, we have had hurdles to jump in order to build our supplies to start our business. After an initial cash investment from both of us we found our business needed to build its inventory if we wanted to have the best possible start. After putting our heads together, we decided to have a “business shower” for our new baby/business. This was a turning point for us! We created a registry with items we needed and shared it with everyone we knew. Friends and family were super supportive and everything on our wish list was purchased within 2 weeks. With our out-the-box thinking, along with the generosity of those around us, we were able to build enough inventory to last us for about 6 events. This really helped us get off to a great start and allowed us to reinvest all the money earned from our first bookings back into our business. As two women who have had our own share of financial hardships in our personal lives, it was important for us to start our business as debt free as we could. We are happy to say that we did it!
Is there mission driving your creative journey?
At the sound of Kreative Kidz Workshop’s name we want to bring smiles and good memories to parents and children alike! One of our main goals is to provide our services to children who are sick and are not able to enjoy our activities like other children would. We would like to partner with a hospital or organization to bring our arts and crafts services into their facility for these kids. We have been reaching out to various facilities with no success as of yet. But like we said, we are resilient lol! We are hopeful that we are closer to finding that organization as it means a lot to us to give back.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://kreativekidzworkshop.com/
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