Like all educators, makerspace educators act as a bridge between people and information, bringing tools and technologies to users who might otherwise never have the opportunity to use them. For users, the makerspace is a place where innovative machines can be tried and tested, and the newest designs for filament-based tchotchkes can be downloaded and assembled nearly free of charge. For educators, the experience is often less about innovation than it is about being able to improvise solutions with whatever materials and processes are available (and functional) on a given day. That dichotomy could be a barrier to connection between educators and users, leaving us vulnerable to losing our perspective on why this work has meaning. However, that same difficulty provides an opportunity to shift paradigms and place a heightened focus on the use of 'craftiness' to bridge a lack of artistic experience among users, allowing them to create without the stigma of "high Art”. By giving educators permission to remove tiered access to artistic expression, and the space to find value in ‘the scraps’, we can bring intentionality to the practical difficulties of guiding makers, bringing unforeseen value to the results. This workshop will afford maker educators an opportunity to slow down, reflect, and share the challenges and obstacles that can interfere with the ability to maintain their keen sense of empathy and scrappiness that is foundational to creating a sense of understanding and connection with their users through a sustainable, low stakes scrap collage project and share out.