Outdoor Art at Home
Make art with friends in your own backyard (or carport, or driveway)! We’ll bring you a weekly Bored Easel class for 5 to 8 children (ages 2-6) when you schedule a 6- to 8-week session. Parents and caregivers come along and participate in class as needed. (Classes for 2- and 3-year-olds require full participation from grown-ups.) Bored Easel classes are process-based, drawing from practices we learned and developed during 17 years of early childhood art programming at PLAY, and all the new things we’ve learned since going mobile.
Our goals when we visit you weekly for art:
- Give kids the opportunity to experiment freely with interesting materials.
- Empower them with words to describe the things art does.
- Expose them to diverse viewpoints through discussions of art.
- Over time, help children to gain familiarity and skill with a variety of methods and materials that they can call upon with flexibility when they decide to make things.
- Entrust them with age-appropriate responsibilities, gradually involving them in every part of the process, including set up, clean up, and thinking about the environmental impact of our art-making.
- Have lots of fun, and be interested in each other’s work.
If you’re hosting, we’ll ask you:
- to provide a flat, child-safe, reliably dry and shaded area, large enough for your whole group
- to confirm participation with your group before we set up your private registration page
Your participants will need:
- to wear “messy” clothes or bring their own art aprons
Our mobile art set-up is eco-friendly, and features our original, portable Bored Easel.
Cost
| Size of Group | Per child/ per class rate (minimum 6-class session) |
| 5 children | $45 each* |
| 6 children | $40 each* |
| 7-8 children | $35 each* |
*pricing may vary based on travel distance; scheduling subject to teacher availability & location
FAQs
Well, no. At easels we draw, paint, print-make, collage, and create the occasional relief sculpture. We do construction projects of all kinds, usually using recycled materials, and we occasionally use things like clay, dough, or paper mache.
The way into each class is different, but across a session you’ll see certain materials and methods repeating. That’s because we want kids to come away from 6 or 8 weeks of class having gained at least one new skill that they can use flexibly and forever. Also, we do paint a lot because kids almost always want to, and there’s always a different way to make a painting. 
Process-oriented or “process art” prioritizes the art-making process over the finished product. In this approach there is no right or wrong way to explore and create.
Health & Safety
PLAY complies with all CDC & LA County orders and recommendations regarding activities taking place in youth environments. All classes are held outdoors.