Hi everyone!
I am looking at running kids Art Classes from home. Art is a huge passion of mine.
However I’m not sure what sort of qualifications I need. I am looking at running classes for children aged 5-12. I completed 2D Art in VCE that’s about it. I have a Cert 3 in Retail Management, Cert 4 in Education Support, a current working with children’s check and will be completing my first aid.
I am pretty much self taught when it comes to art but absolutely love it. Most of my work is acrylic painting, pastel and pencil drawings, I do a lot of arts and crafts with my own children.
I’m slowly gathering and organising things to make it happen and am excited in making this my future career. I have no idea on what to charge, I’m looking at 2 hour classes, $25 - $30 per child. I’m situated in Melbourne.
Any advice with this would be amazing!
Thank you ❤️
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My daughter (11 years) has attended art classes in QLD for a year and a half.
I think its $15 a lesson 1.5hrs (after school)
Check out art school co.
As a suggestion 2hrs might be a bit long. Factor in the amount of hours after school, and conflicting seasonal sports.
1.5hrs is perfect for us, no rushing between picking up from school, through afternoon traffic then enough time for take away dinner on way home.
We live about 20min drive away and in between time I do weekly grocery shop or walk dogs.
Thank you so much! This really helps!
Of course, it can be crazy busy after school hours.
Just make sure you have the right liability insurance, and a blue card to work with kids
My kids have done art classes it was $10 per child for an hour (2019). I personally wouldn't pay $25 as for me that'll be $50 for my two also given that you're new at teaching art to kids I'd be doing a lower price to start with. I also think that 2 hours is too long particularly for that age group. I'd do maybe an hour for $10 or 1.5 for $15.
Thank you for your reply.
My only issue with the pricing is that I do a lot of work on canvas, canvas’s alone can cost $15, then there’s acrylic paints, paint brushes, materials for paper mache etc… I’m worried I’ll actually be losing rather than gaining.
Is it an art school that your children go to? Or at a person’s home?
It's at a hall, they do different classes there such as art, dance etc
I wouldn't pay $25 per child per class for a new teacher either. As you're wanting to teach younger children maybe start off with something like drawing lessons on paper? Then get to the more advanced stuff on canvas when you've had more experience with teaching kids and you can charge more :)
Thank you so much, I will definitely take this on board 😊
Hi! I teach art after school at my local library. I do different classes each time, sometimes it's drawing and other time it's painting. I use my own equipment but I don't use expensive stuff especially as kids tend to break stuff. I do ages 5-8 for half an hour, (3:30-4:00) then 9-12 for an hour (4:30-5:30 Tuesday) and then 12+ for an hour. (4:30-5:30 Thursday). The oldest child I've had is about 15. I charge $10 for 5-8 and then $15 for the 9+ per class. I've been doing it since 2016. I know that sounds low but when you get 15-20 kids sometimes more it's an extra few hundred a week) I hope that helps 😊
Thank you so much for this information! It helps a lot! Very much appreciated 😊
No problem! Best of luck. I should also add that a 5 year olds skills are vastly different to a 12 year olds, that's why I do smaller age gap classes like that 😊
My son is 11 he does art classes once a week it's 170 per term so I do feel your prices are too high also you need to remember that although you do need to buy supplies it's not like the kids are taking home the paints and pens etc so you only need to buy them once but you get several uses out of them and you can use canvas paper instead of actual canvases too and it'll work out cheaper. No need to spend $15 on 1 canvas. I think it's a great idea but you will probably be a little out of pocket at first for the supplies and waiting for more kids to join and word of mouth to get around
Thank you for your response!