how much would you pay for a 3 hour 'craft' session

[LaurieFairyCake]

Ages 5-10 (maximum 6 per 3 hour class)

Good crafts (v. Well stocked craft room - wreath making/Christmas ornaments/candle making )

Zone 2/3 London - Saturday morning 9-12 - perfect time to catch up on chores/do your own shopping/spend time with partner

Run by teachers (obvs dbs checked)

Not in your home obvs - just realised I posted this in 'home childcare'

In my converted craft room.

I used to pay £10 for 2 hours outside of London.

I will try to find a link.

Oh, it was actually 2hrs 30 for £10.

'10 until 12.30, cost £10 and includes fun, snack and a drink'.

I'd say 10/15 pounds

Oh it's 3 hours, 15ish then

I have paid £50+ for an all day session (take your own lunch; snacks provided) but with more of an arts than a craft basis, and making some pretty large/impressive things (large canvas/clothing/large sculpture).

I think probably £10-15? I think if I was you I'd be tempted to go with 2h30/later start - I wouldn't want to commit to getting my dc somewhere for 9am. 9.30 I might manage ;-)

Hmm interesting. Could you say if any of you are in London? Ordinary (!) childminding in my area is £7 an hour

I am thinking of more impressive/expensive crafts (not just painting and sticking) Was thinking about making aprons/tote bags/wreaths (they're quite expensive to make)

I think an all day session would be quite good - I could theme it around the time of year.

So for a summer session we could make ice cream, a floor cushion on a summery theme, citronella candle, sleep spray, bath bomb, bunting cards and actual bunting.

I think it would be better done in the afternoon. I'd pay £25 for a 3 hour slot say 12-3 on a Saturday for my almost 6 year old and use the time to go for lunch somewhere adult with my husband.

I live in SW London and would pay £30 tops. But it would be a once in the blue moon treat.

Hmm, having seen your most recent post, I'd go to £35

I was thinking about 25/30

I've just done a pottery course (not pottery wheel) which was 100 for 6 hours

I might add in pottery too (hand building) as it was fab

I am just outside London. Dd2's school runs craft days in the holidays. All day (well, 10-4), bring own lunch/drinks/snacks.

A mix of medium crafts (mostly art based) and bigger projects - a simple skirt, apron, shoe bag type things. Run by the Art teacher, and more recently the DT teacher has run some too - projects like planters for the garden, or bird boxes. They usually run for 3/4 days, and cost eg £40 per day or £100 for 3/£140 for 4.

The places fill up, as ft as I am aware, so there must be a demand for it.

Pay £30 for (a really decent) cooking club for 2.5 - 3 hours with all ingredients paid for where + aprons etc and where we get to take home the (generous amounts of) food at the end. That would be the most I'd pay. SW London

Laurie, my arty crafty 9 year old wouldn't have the attention span for some of the things you have listed and between 5-8 would have been far more interested in playing after brief craft session. Not sure if that is something to bear in mind or not ..... must confess I am not a natural with small people .

Don't worry, I'd be interspersing it with snacks and paddling pool jumping

Actually i think 25/30 is fair, i didn't consider the fact that the parents don't have to stay, so it's sort of childcare too. i'd pay 30 quid to have ds off my hands for a few hours

I think between 30 and 45 depending on the materials costs is fine for a 3 hr teacher led properly checked and insured class - just think of the cost of pottery painting things.

5 year old in a stranger's home all day on his own? Nope! If it was run by school or after school club where he knew kids already, that would be different. But complete randoms in someone's house... I wouldn't put a child in reception year there.

my girls are 8 and 11 and pretty good at craft and can be pretty focussed. But three hours of concentrated craft to get a complex project finished, well, I am not sure the younger one would do it. Older one would.

If you interspersed it with paddling pools, they would go to the water and not return to the craft.

This would be so difficult to pitch with an age range of 5-10 years old.
For £30 you'd want something useable to come home but without lots of help a 5YO probably can't make something that well and why would you pay to send your child to have someone else do their craft for them?
I'd split it if I were you: I do Brownies and what the 7yo can do and what the 10YO can do is very different.

I'd offer this as a party. Charge £35 a head and throw in a little buffet lunch. People would be much more willing to sign up for a one off I think.

I wouldn't necessarily want a qualified teacher either Laurie. Just someone with a crb check - I was going to compare to scouts/brownie leaders but momb got there first.

The woman who ran ours was a qualified teacher, no longer teaching children, and her lovely husband was a scout leader. They were just so lovely with the children. A parent had to stay to help the younger ones and she started from age 6.

Hi

it sounds similar to these workshops which are half the time for £16.

I'd go for 10-12 and charge £25. Who wants to start an activity at 9am on a Saturday morning?
We a little less for a similar amount for one in Hampstead/Finchley 4 years ago. and she rented out a space in Kidderpore Avenue which was pretty good and well attended.