How much for classes?

[moonlight]

How much do you pay for these little classes for pre schoolers? I found a little dance place close by that does 1 hour/1 day a week Ballet and tap for $50 per month. Is that too much or about right? I asked around and my friend's are paying $70 month for weekly gymnastics classes for toddlers. Our toddler yoga class is super duper cheep at $5 a class! So, I'm a little sticker shocked I guess.

[SuzySunshine]

We pay $50/month for A's dance class that meets 50 min/week. I think the gymnastics classes at the same place are just a little more.

[Vishenka69]

So far the cheapest classes we've done is swimming and that's $13.50 for a 30 minute class. I think $12 per class is a steal.

[Auspicious]

My Gym classes (which they describe as "Gymnastics, Fitness, Sports Skills, Tumbling for children 6 weeks to 9 years!") are $68/mo for a one-hour-per-week class, plus access to some open-gym free-play times.

[peggyfromwastate]

Around my neck of the woods it's usually 15$/hour or per class- depends though because there are some county Rex classes that are less (around $10/class) but generally speaking you get what you pay for. County classes are usually held in community centers, but private classes are in more specialized settings- like dance studios, etc.

[Pollyanna]

We pay $40/month dance. After your 5th hour you pay $20/month. I've noticed that gym/tumbling classes are much more expensive.

[peggyfromwastate]

Gymnastics can run crazy expensive. I have a friend who's dd is on a gym team and the uniform alone costs $180- just for the leotard thing. Then they add the sweats, the practice uniforms, etc.

These gyms make a lot of money with their prek tumbling classes- helps offset the crazy expensive gymnastics equipment.

Yeah that sounds good to me. We have not done dance, but the gymnastics and music classes that I have done with DS at various places have run anything from $15 - $20/class.

[alison]

Oh god, I know M would love to be in gymnastics, but I don't want to see that foam pit ever again... .

Classes here usually run on a quarterly basis, and they work out to be around $10-15 per class, with the more expensives ones like gymnastics around $18.

[Tenacious_D]

We pay about $22 per hour class for E's gymnastics class but it's great. It's a real training center for gymnasts so he can see the older girls flipping and spinning all over the place. I'm really impressed with the real tricks they teach. Our local mama and me tumble gym tried to charge the same for simple floor mats and soft floor toys.

[v-girl]

At my girls' studio, a creative movement class for toddlers/preschoolers would be $55/month. We pay a lot more than that per month, but between the two girls, I'm paying for 13 hours of dance lessons. A private one-hour lesson is $50.

[moonlight]

At my girls' studio, a creative movement class for toddlers/preschoolers would be $55/month. We pay a lot more than that per month, but between the two girls, I'm paying for 13 hours of dance lessons. A private one-hour lesson is $50.

DD will be 22 months when she starts the class next month. Does it really matter where I get the ballet and tap shoes???

[v-girl]

For that age, tap shoes from Payless, Bloch ballet shoes or the little slipper ballet shoes from Target. The Payless ballet shoes (or at least the ones they had when my girls were little) were too stiff. You could check now though and see if they carry Bloch. My girls haven't done tap in years, but I think the shoes were no more than $30. Ballet shoes are $20-30.