Well, definitely I can say emphasize the no switching between colors without cleaning, and demonstrate the cleaning and make sure you have eye contact, to be sure they are seeing what you are doing --- my DD knows now how to use the scrubber, but before she watched me a few times, she was "tapping" the scrubber just like the ink pad, and she had to do it a few times before she got the hang of it.
Not sure what you have planned for a project -- is that what you are asking about? I know that scrapbooking has been really popular iwth the kids, you could do something like tags, that is something you could demonstrate as they could add to a card or to a scrapbook page, or use it as a bookmark. I found that the stamps you color in are a hit with the kids, even the parents admitted to me they liked to color, LOL (I do it watching TV, it is relaxing) and something they can do with the kids. Just a black stamp and a bunch of colored pencils or markers and that is all set. OR the 2-step stamping is always fun too -- Fresh Flowers type of set where the flowers and the centers and the leaves are all separate -- the kids and the moms liked to do those when I did a class. Something they liked for that was we did a half-sheet of confetti white (you could do US white or vanilla or natural also) and then they could either fold in half for a card or cut up for tags, bookmark, part of another card, etc. Kind of like a mini double-time. Moms could help with the cutting when they are done -
Mom/daughter sitting together I agree with.
I just reread your post and while I said above the coloring, I agree with the above poster -- I realize you have 9 teams and that might take too long, so probably the 2-step or another type of stamp would work better. I also thought of a project being a small goody bag - they could stamp the "topper" and then fill with jellybeans, that would be something the kids would think would be fun as well as the moms getting ideas for them to do goody bags for parties instead of buying them.
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