Private, Outdoor PLAY Art Classes @ Home
Make art with friends in your own backyard (or carport, or driveway)! We’ll bring you a weekly, 45-minute, parent-and-child art class for 4 to 8 children (ages 2-5) when you schedule a 6- to 10-week session. Each child (or pair of siblings) must be accompanied by a participating parent or caregiver. Classes are process-based and customized for the age range of your group, drawing from our Messy Mixed Media curriculum, and the practices we developed during our 17 years of drop-in Messy Art at PLAY. (Scheduling is subject to teacher availability & location.)
Our goals when we visit you weekly for art:
- Give children 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 with and ownership of a variety of methods and materials they can call upon and use with flexibility when they decide to make things.
- Entrust them with age-appropriate responsibilities, gradually involving them in every part of the art-making process, including set up, clean up, and thinking about water use and the environmental impact of our materials.
- Have lots of fun, and appreciate each other’s work.
If you’re hosting, we’ll ask you:
- to provide a flat, child-safe, and reliably dry and shaded area, large enough for our teacher and 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, cardboard easels. In teaching outdoor classes since the summer of ’22, we’ve found many ways to limit water use for materials clean-up. (We have it down to a gallon per two kids, or less.)
Cost
| Size of Group | Per child/ per class rate (minimum 6-class session) |
| 4-5 children | $45 each* |
| 6 children | $40 each* |
| 7-8 children | $35 each* |
*pricing may vary based on travel distance
Health & Safety
PLAY complies with all CDC & LA County orders and recommendations regarding activities taking place in youth environments. All PLAY staff are fully vaccinated and boosted. All classes are held outdoors.