Make you own volunteer opportunities. If you are having problems getting enough teaching hours in for certification get creative. The results may surprise you.

I'm taking classes at the community college and offered to volunteer teach knit and crochet classes on two of the days I'm at the college. I was thrilled with the turnout and the enthusiasm. Eleven students and two staff members showed up for the meeting. I arrived this morning with only my samples, no hooks or needles, because today was suppose to be a planning meeting to organize the classes.

They were so excited to get started that we ended up using pencils and some of the yarn the college activities department purchased for the classes to teach casting on. At the same time I helped one crochet student who had brought her own materials. We are doing the Warm Up America squares to donate afghans to our local Ronald McDonald House. I’m going to offer two sessions of knitting on Tuesdays and two sessions of crochet of Thursday this term to accommodate the interest.