How to Host: Couple/Friendship Spotify Keychain Workshop
Premise
Section titled “Premise”This cute workshop invites couples or close friends to come as pairs and create matching keychains together. Each pair will choose a song that is meaningful to them, and the Spotify code for that song will be engraved on their keychains. The keychains will be approximately 0.5” x 3” each, and will interlock to form a heart when placed together.
Logistics
Section titled “Logistics”Capacity: 20 people, 10 pairs
Volunteers requested: 3 volunteers, familiar with laser cutting and illustrator. Each volunteer can help two pairs
Editable slides: Spring 2025
Materials to Order
Section titled “Materials to Order”| Item | Description | Quantity | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keyrings (Bulk, approx 100pcs.) | Keyrings with an attached clip | 1 | Primary, Alternate |
| 1/8” thick wood sheets | The usual wood sheets in stock. | - | - |
| 1/8” thick clear acrylic | - | - | |
| 1/8” thick assorted colored acrylic | Gray, magenta, red, yellow, orange, green, light blue, dark blue, light purple | - | - |
Before the Workshop
Section titled “Before the Workshop”At closing time (6pm), kick people off benchtops and set-up/log in to computers & open up template file in illustrator
At 6:15, have a volunteer stand at front door/desk and check people in for the workshop
Detailed Instructions
Section titled “Detailed Instructions”6:35-45: Run though slides & live demo/tutorial of illustrator basics
6:45-7:30: Help them design the front/backs of their keychains
7:15: Have another volunteer run downstairs & login/turn on both laser cutters + make sure no one’s using them
7:30-8:30: Laser cut keychains, for reference it takes ~8min total to do 1 keychain front/back
Guidelines for colored acrylic
Section titled “Guidelines for colored acrylic”ULS Settings
- Rast - 60P, 80S
- Vect - 90P, 10S
Fill in with expo marker, get fine details with thin sharpie. Can clean the top with an alcohol wipe!
Post-Workshop Feedback
Section titled “Post-Workshop Feedback”Number of Participants: 15
- Good! the longer part was when we actually got downstairs, bc some people didn’t properly vectorize their images which prolonged the process for everyone—still, we think allowing for up to 15 signups is a good number
Premise of the workshop
- Each pair edited an Adobe Illustrator template file to engrave the Spotify code of a song meaningful to them, also customizing the fronts and backs as desired. The keychains were 0.75” x 3” each, and form a heart shape when placed together.
What went well
- The Adobe Illustrator part went fine, there was a short live demo of how to use Illustrator—plus we (workshop leaders) and volunteers went around helping people so that went smoothly.
What would you change
- We had pairs who finished early wait until everyone else was done, and then we broke up into 2 groups to go down & do the engravings. Instead, as soon as a pair or two was done, we should’ve sent a volunteer down with them to laser cut their keychains so they could leave early if they wanted. One of the reasons why we didn’t do this was we forgot to explain/demonstrate to volunteers before/at the beginning of the workshop how to do this.