What activities do your dcs do and how much does it cos per week? (if that's not too nosey)

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dd1 dancing three times a week @ £3 per time. but when she is five will move to four times a week. when she gets back into comps etc. will be still be four times a week but more hours and will be £3 per hour.

also tap shoes, ballet shoes etc all need paying for and the x mas play end up costing about £100 - £150 all including make up/ travel/ hair things / costumes.

so quite a lot when its all added up. also she usually does something on a weekend i.e ice skating/swimming/softplay which usually comes to about a tenner. according to her she is thinking of starting trampolining club. im thinking of filing for bankrupcty as she cant just do lessons she has to get all over involved so that would be more leotards, competition fees etc.

DD does:

• ballet at £5.00 a week
• trampolining at £4.50 a week
• swimming at either £2.60 or £5.20 depending on whether she is accompanied by both of us or just one (she is free!) so call it £3.90

£13.40 week on average, plus about 35 miles' worth of petrol (ouch).

Guides - £1 a week! The rest are after school clubs.

DD does:
cubs £1 per week, plus annual £23?
brownies £1 per week, plus annual £23?
Swimming lessons about £5 a week
Gym (2hrs) about £8 a week
Piano about £5 a week (in school)

DS does:
beavers 50p per week, plus annual £23?
Swimming lessons about £5 a week
Football (2 hrs) about £2 a week
Cornet about £5 a week (in school)

Plus swimming with me £1.40 each!

We decided against swimming club at about £9 a week each for 2x1hour lessons each! - too much time and money!

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Ballet, Tap & Modern £150 a term
Jazz £40 a term
Brownies £14 a term
Panto rehearsals - free but costume charge of £20
Mardi Gras comp in Nov - £60 entry

All of the above require outfits.
Its a killer

Only one DS.

Football

Rock Choir

Swimming

Cricket (Summer)

I have no idea re price.

Yeah Beavers etc is a bargain imho.

The leaders do it as volunteers too unlike a lot of thing (suppose that helps to keep price down).

TBH that's the one thing I make sure they always do - football and dance is all fine but Cubs and Brownies is where they see thei rmates just for fun.

2 dds.
Only swimming, about £80 a term each.

DD (8 yo):
Swimming 3 times a week £9.00
Beavers £2.00
Horse Riding £25.00

DS (6 yo)
Swimming 2 times a week £6.00
Beavers £2.00
Football £5.00

DD has given up dance & drama to do Horse Riding as definitely couldn't afford both.

Cheapest are also those run by teachers at school (Ed dept) and those run by Community Ed dept. Just as cheap as brownies etc. Worth acknowledging local authorities every now and then.

Not sure I want to add it up...

DS1 (12)
Flute, £12 a week
Sailing £90 a year (call it £2 a week)
Scouts £2

DS2 (9)
Brass lesson £8 a week (plus exams at £25 to £40 a shot)
Swimming £4
Gymnastics £4
everything else free (thank you school!)

DD1 (7)
Piano £8
Swimming £4
Music theatre 50p (so ner ner to Stagecoach)

All comes to about £45. Actually that's not too bad for three, is it?

All you people whose DDs do dance. Are any of them doing the exam courses at 6?

When DD moves up from pre-primary to primary ballet in Feb we have a choice of one class a week or two classses a week if you want to do exams. How do yours find the exam classes? Is it too much for a 6 year old or do they enjoy it?

I have to put in the expression of interest forms next week and I have no idea what to do. I think she'd get some enjoyment out of working for something concrete but not sure how full-on it is.

Daughter (age 6) does

Dance at approx £100 a term (for two classes)
Gymnastics £6 a week
Brownies £20 a term

Arfishy - when daughter did her first exam (pre-primary, I think) earlier this year she had to do extra exam classes for about a month beforehand. She enjoyed the extra classes and loved the exam itself; she wasn't worried about it, as they do it as a group and their teacher is in the room with them. We all trooped off to the exam centre and the teacher got the girls looking extra ballerina-like with hair gel and ribbons, which I thought was a bit precocious but the girls loved. They are all very proud of their certificates!

But I think it depends on the child - only about half of daughter's usual class entered for the exam. Some of the other mums thought that an exam would take the fun out of it.

Sorry. Long post. Too late. Zzzz.

Dancing £10.30 a week plus uniform, competitions, costumes and private lessons (approx £2k a year)

Gymnastics £4.25 a week plus leotard and rosettes at £5.00 every 2 months or so

Swimming £55.00 for a 10 week term plus badges at about £2.50 a term

Bloody hell at what you are all spending!

DS climbs once a fortnight outdoors, this costs peytrol money for him and I only, about £10 a go in a shared car

Once a fortnight climbing indoors, £8 for both of us. In the winter when we don't go outdoors this goes up to twice a week.

arfishy my daughter studies for her exams within normal class times. she has her first one coming up soon. if they need extra help they stay for an hour for a one on one after normal class.

DD is only 3 so does swimming lessons, £50 per term, and we go to fun swimming sessions sometimes at the weekend and in the school holidays at about £4 for both of us. I'm hoping she can start dance soon too which will be £3.20 per week. We walk to all of the above.
We did start forest school but it was £5 per session + about £7 petrol and I decided that was too much money for what she got out of it.
Glad to see that rainbows etc is so reasonable as she'll join when shes old enough.
But then they'll be after school clubs too!

Forgot to add thats part of our reasoning for having an only child as Dh and I are both in fairly low paid jobs so couldn't afford more children. I'd love dd to be able to start horseriding too, but it is so expensive, and she's too little at the moment anyway.
I also spoke to a friend of mine who pays £15 for half an hour private swimming lesson for her 3yr old dd, struck me as alot of money!

Hmmmm let me add mine up

ds1
fencing - £4
urban self defence -£12.50
piano - £7

dd1
art club - £3
scuba diving - £25
violin - £7

dd2
art club - 50p
horse riding - £15

total - 62 quid

ds aged 2

parent and toddler gym £26 for half a term to include insurance.

Two toddler groups £2

Swimming class £3.20
Swimming class £8.00

Jumpstart £2.50

Kindermusik £35 for 6 weeks

arfishy my DD does exams as part of her dance class - twice a year - they are working towards them now (I think they are in early Dec).

The class is 90 mins long and she is 7 if that's any help. Younger ones (say up to 5+) doe an hour but they do exams too.

LittleB £15 for a half hour swim lesson is A Lot. And for a 3yo too

Thanks all for the replies about the dancing. I've spoken to her teacher and we think it is probably best not to go with the exams (we are not a particularly agile family ). I'm going to see if she wants to do tap instead, which I think she will love . I had to veto jazz as I felt the outfits and moves were a little too suggestive for a 5 year old.

I forgot that we are enrolling in Nippers this weekend. It's the surf life saving club for children. That'll be another $150 I think. Important though, the surf is dangerous and I can't teach her surf safety myself, I didn't get that much experience in riptides and sharks in SW London.

DS (2) does

Swimming £10

Tumbletots £5.25

Toddler group x 3 - £4.50

Playgroup £20.20

£19.75 without playgroup
£39.95 with playgroup