To show folk how to use a crimp bead I use a piece of rope, a cookie cutter and an empty toilet roll!

My next project is to design a super large demo of a wrapped loop Does anyone else use giant bits and bobs for classes?

Hilary 

 I've been known to demo chains with shower curtain rings and teach peyote with Fruit Loops....

cool! I bet that helps people a lot.  

I use household cotton string w/ large plastic pony beads & large plastic needle to demo peyote & brick stitch.  Each student makes her own using 3 colors of beads.  Then when the going gets small, they have something large in their hands to refer to & examine what they did BIG.  It actually seems to help a lot.

sher