art club for kids - do you think this is a good idea and how much would you pay if you did?

[jeangenie]

I am a qualified artist but work outside of that field 4 days a week. I have been thinking about reducing the hours I put into my (very noncreative) job and trying to build a bit more creative time into my week. I can't afford to totally give up my salary though so have been thinking about setting up some kind of afterschool art club for primary students in order to bridge the gap. It's something I'd love to do and I have just been approached by a mum at school who is very eager to get her daughter doing something like this one day after school and knew I had been thinking about it. I am tempted to try it out for a while between now and half term, maybe just with a my friends daughter and couple of other kids (if I can get them) to see how we go.

anyway,

1. is this something you/your kids would be interested in do you think?
2. how much would you think was reasonable to pay for a 1.5 to 2 hour session per week with all materials included?

I'd appreciate all inputs

thanks

jg, imagine the size of the house you could buy up here - a blooming mansion compared to the pokey little bedsit you can buy for half a mill in London (do you like my sweeping generalisations there? )

yes, I could have a lovely old pile, possibly servants and everything. oooh...must work on dh

My son went to a club like this at our local primary and loved it unfortunately it was short lived as I think the tutor moved on. Such a shame as it was the one day of the week he ran to school and hassled me for ages about it when it stopped.

We paid, I think, about £5.00 a session tbh I would probably have paid up to about £6.00 without a problem as he has hardly any opportunities to flex his creative muscles! She ran it at the end of school for an hour, you applied at the beginning of term, paid in advance and it was fully booked!!

As the mother of two children who are not even vaguely sporty I think its a great idea - despite mentioning the lack of any artistic outlet to every member of staff I meet at primary they still do very little.

Off the top of my head they did bag painting, apron painting, collages for halloween and decorated wooden tree decorations for christmas.

this is a very old thread (January 2008)

Well hopefully now its been bumped by Cheena it will inspire someone else to give it a go please

I have been looking for something like that but can't find it where I live so, yes, it's a fab idea!

Shit old thread!