289: How to Make $200 an Hour Playing with Kids: An Intro to After School Programs

<p>May Najafabadi earned $12,000 in 8 weeks -- working just 1 hour a day.</p> <p>Her side hustle?</p> <p>After school enrichment classes teaching crafts and jewelry making.</p> <p><em>Note: <a href= "https://nickloper.lpages.co/leadbox/142eacd33f72a2%3A12b7a20bab46dc/5658081669152768/"> Click here to download May’s top tips for creating and running after school classes from this episode</a>.</em></p> <p>As a long-time entrepreneur in the e-commerce space, May was used to enrolling her son in these classes to buy herself an extra hour in the afternoons.</p> <p>Over the last couple years though, she wanted to diversify her income away from Amazon and wondered if she could be the one selling those classes instead.</p> <p>May chose <a href="https://www.creativekidzcrafts.com/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">arts and crafts</a>, a subject her son enjoyed in first grade but didn’t see available for second grade and above.</p> <p>With no experience working with crafts or teaching children May jumped right in with a lunchtime demonstration and handing out flyers to the kids.</p> <p>“The kids went crazy, they just loved the crafts. It was a big hit,” May said.</p> <p>With her hopes set on 6 or more kids for that first class, May had 18 sign up at $120 each.</p> <p>She soon expanded to larger schools, with larger groups of kids, and hired helpers. She's released a book, a training course, and hosts birthday parties and summer camps, and has hopes of franchising her model.</p> <p>Tune in to hear how May has grown her after school class business and how you may be able to borrow this creative side hustle idea.</p>