BOOKING ADVICE

• Remember to ask if they will bring their own table and chair/s if you do not have any available. Facepainters are adults and cannot work from those cute little children's chairs!
• If you know that parking is difficult or expensive, or the local one way system is fiendish, and the painter is arriving by car (with table & chairs for example) make suitable arrangements or at least warn them - they will arrive in a much better mood!
• If you are setting up outdoors, let the painter know. Even on a fine day it can get chilly sitting still, and they will dress accordingly.
• Don't expect the painter to work longer than you booked them for; they may need to get back to their own children, have another booking to get to, or have just paced themselves to the end time.

QUESTIONS TO ASK A FACEPAINTER

1. Are they available on ___ date?
2. Describe your event (private house party for 10 children/public event with 1 million attending) and ask what they could do.
3. Do they have any special requirements?
4. What they will charge?
5. How they would like to be paid?
6. How do you confirm the booking?
7. Check their mobile phone number if they have one, it may have changed.

THINGS TO TELL YOUR FACEPAINTER

1. Your address and phone number and the address of the event if different.
2. What time it starts and when it is expected to end.
3. How many children you expect, and if they are mostly boys or girls.
4. The age range of the children, face painting is not suitable for under 2's, most painters do not paint under 3's.
5. If you have a theme, tell them, they can prepare ideas.
6. If you need them to bring furniture.
7. If you need them to bring lighting.
8. If you have booked another face painter.
9. If you have booked another entertainer, you can discuss how they could work together.
10. If your event is outdoors.