Before you hire a artists for kids face painting, there are some precautions that you should take regarding kids face painting. With anything that involves your children, there are some things that you can do to help ensure the safety of your children and anyone else's children, especially with kids face painting. These hazards are usually brought on by unprofessional artists who do not follow proper steps when doing kids face painting, or any other type of face painting. Here are some tips of how to correctly select artists to hold your kids face painting events.



Kids of high school ages have enjoyed painting faces for pep rallies. They have painted their mascot paws, team logos or names, school names and colors on their faces for fun and for fundraising. It's an easy way to earn money for the senior class or an upcoming class trip. They have set up booths at local arts and crafts shows, midnight madness sales, and during special school functions. Low prices keep the student customers coming back or persuade them to purchase more than one picture.

With children face painting designs, there are many free resources you can use as inspiration. Many children like the current movie, television show, the latest toy or cartoon character. All of these current things that are popular among children can be your free resource for inspiration to create new children face painting designs. These designs are easy to learn and you can practice a few times with some low cost face paint so that you are not using your high quality face paint.

The ideas for kids face painting are limited only to the imagination. When painting faces of a younger child, you must have patience, allow time for possible fidgeting, and keep your design simple. It helps perfect your talent to practice the chosen designs in advance of an event. Most children would be happy to cooperate in being a guinea pig for your practice sessions.

You may get ideas for designs from popular cartoons, movies, coloring books, drawing books, the animal section in your local library or bookstore, magazines featuring flowers, catalogues, and toy stores. You could also ask the neighborhood kids for ideas. When drawn into the planning, kids can be extremely helpful and imaginative. Ask them to how you their favorite characters or to choose pictures from their own book collection.

Before you hire a artists, always see samples of their work and have a firm and legal agreement in place before you have them host your kids face painting event. Any artist can claim to have the best work. It is not rude or uncommon to see samples of their work whether it is on a website or a picture in their portfolio. Bes sure that the pictures you are looking at are real live people and try to make sure they are authentic. Most face painters take a camera and take pictures of their work to use as pieces of their personal portfolios.

Always make sure that you also get a firm agreement that is legal and signed. Make sure that you have a copy of this agreement. On the day of the event, tell the artist that you will pay for half of the bill when they show up and the other half when the kids face painting event is over.

Idea for places to do kids face painting include: shopping malls, hospitals, birthday parties, charity events, festivals, school events, flea markets, church functions, craft shows, parades, open house events. Hobby stores may offer classes for kids face painting or might allow you to offer classes yourself. They may be interested in allowing you to set up in order to draw more business and delight their younger shoppers who accompany the parents or relatives.