

They were ready to learn about how the challenge would work, what the achievement levels were, and how we would celebrate the at the end of the summer. By this point, most of my students were committed to the summer session. When we got to the last class of the spring session, I was ready with the specifics.

At this stage of the game, I was still a little vague on the details, but was sure to let everyone know that more information would be coming soon. I also made some cute “promotional poster” coloring pages for my younger students to take home and color. As we chatted about summer plans before and after lessons, I made sure to mention the challenge that would be starting at the beginning of the next session. Now that the idea of the summer challenge was out and swirling around with my students and their families, it was time to build a little more excitement. This timing allowed me to place a small “teaser” ad on the back of the recital program. I had made the decision to continue lessons through the summer right before my students had their spring recital.

The first key to making my Bucket List challenge a success was to create excitement before it started. Get the bucket list challenge resource here!īuilding Excitement with a Teaser and a Launch
