What a Kids' Paint Party Actually Looks Like, Start to Finish

From the doorbell to the last brushstroke — how an in-home kids' painting birthday party runs when Paula's Painters brings the studio to your Brooklyn home.

Paula rings the bell about forty minutes before the guests. By the time the first kid arrives, your dining room is a studio: covered table, a canvas and brush at every seat, paints mixed, water cups filled.

The kids sit down to something set up just for them, and that alone changes the energy. This isn't an activity in a corner. It's the party.

She starts everyone together — here's your brush, here's how we load paint, here's the shape we start with. Then she works the table. The five-year-old gets big shapes and bold color. The eleven-year-old gets shading and detail. Same theme, every kid at their own level. It's what she does all day as an art teacher, just around your table instead of her classroom at Magen David Yeshivah.

The theme is whatever the birthday kid is into. A favorite animal. Waves. Their name in beautiful lettering. Sneakers, if you've got that kind of crew.

About an hour later there's a row of finished paintings drying on your counter and a table of kids showing each other what they made. Paula packs everything out, wipes down, and the paintings go home as the party favor. No goody bags to assemble at midnight.

That's the whole thing. Book on this site, or text 646-262-2794 with a date.