So the materials for each Sunday are a repeat order, not a fresh problem. Every item below ships within Australia and every price came from the supplier's own page.
There is no boxed, class-sized kit for any of these five artists sold in Australia. That is the honest headline. The only artist-branded product on the market here is My Creative Box · Famous Artists (about $44.50 a box, in stock at My Playroom), which contains one small activity each for Kahlo, Monet, Matisse, Picasso, Van Gogh and Warhol. Eight boxes would cost roughly your entire takings for a session to deliver one-sixth of a box each. Worth buying one to see how they structure the activities. Not worth buying eight.
So what actually takes the pressure off is a standing bulk order rather than a kit. Zart Art in Box Hill North is the backbone — Melbourne-based, sells to individuals as well as schools, dispatches within 24 hours and lists both inc- and ex-GST prices. Note the 0.8% fuel surcharge that started 3 August 2026, and that there is no published free-freight threshold.
Prices below are GST-inclusive where the supplier stated it. Anything unconfirmed is flagged rather than guessed.
| Item | Price | Per child |
|---|---|---|
| Rainbow Cover Paper A3 125gsm, 250 sheetsZart ArtThe whole paper element. 125gsm is the key number — stiff enough to stand as a vase sleeve, still cuttable by an eight-year-old. Stretches to about 25 children. | $36.25 | $3.63 |
| Coloured Tissue Paper, 100 sheetsZart Art · 25×38cmTranslucent overlays. This is how they get the layered, glowing colour Matisse got in the real cut-outs. | $10.95 | $1.10 |
| Classroom Glue Stick 36g, pack of 100Zart Art · 44c a stickEight times cheaper per stick than the branded packs at Officeworks. One stick each, all year. | $43.95 | $0.44 |
| 550ml Preserving Jars, 3 packKmart · 11.2cm tallThe take-home jar the paper vase slides over. Good proportion for an A3 sleeve. Buy three packs for nine. | $6.50 | $2.17 |
| School Scissors 155mmZart Art · blunt tip · buy 10One-off, reusable forever. 155mm blunt-tip is the right size for 8–12; the 178mm rounded-tip suits the older end. | $3.80 ea | one-off |
| Rainbow Cover Paper A4 125gsm, 250 sheetsTeacher SuperstoreSame stock as the A3 at roughly half the price. Use A4 for the shapes, A3 for the vase body. | $20.95 | $2.10 |
| Quill A3 Bright Assorted, 150 sheetsOfficeworks · 80gsmFine for cut shapes, too floppy for the vase. Only useful paired with a stiffer base. | $32.00 | $3.20 |
| Bulk Cover Paper A3 & Glue KitZart Art · 2,000 sheets + 40 glue sticksA whole term in one purchase, about $1.70 a child across the ~200 children it serves. Only if the series is definitely continuing. | $340.98 | $1.70* |
| Item | Price | Per child |
|---|---|---|
| Flower Tissue Paper Kits, pack of 30Baker Ross AU · reduced from $67.50The single biggest time-saver in this make. Pre-folded tissue, foam leaves, pipe-cleaner stems, no glue needed. Three or four flowers each makes a full crown. Ages 6+. | $55.85 | $6.98 |
| Australian Colours Acrylic, 6 × 500mlZart Art · ask for the Summer SetSkin tones, hot backgrounds and flat colour blocking. The Summer palette is closest to Frida's pinks, oranges and greens. 500ml bottles last many Sundays. | $39.95 | $4.00* |
| Canvas Board 8 × 10″Zart Art · sold singlyRight scale for 90 minutes — big enough for a face and crown, small enough to dry and carry home. | $3.80 ea | $3.80 |
| Plastic Mirrors 12×12cm, pack of 10School Art SuppliesOne shatterproof mirror each for the observational step. Reusable across every portrait workshop in the series. | $20.50 | one-off |
| 20×20cm Stretched Canvas, 4 packKmartA third of the Zart price. Trade-off is a square format and less working room. | $5.00 | $1.25 |
| Coloured Cardboard 220gsm, 100 sheetsZart Art · A3, 10 coloursSkips canvas entirely — a hot pink or dark green A3 ground is very on-brief, and the offcuts become cut-paper botanicals. | $38.90 | $0.78 |
| Kadink Crepe Paper, 24 rollsOfficeworksDIY crowns at a fifth of the Baker Ross cost, but adds about 15 minutes and needs pipe cleaners and prep. | $11.00 | $1.38 |
| EC Jumbo Oil Pastels, pack of 12Zart ArtBlack outlining, the monobrow, botanical detail and animals over dried paint. The 24-colour Zart Basics pack is $14.25 if you want more range. | $9.30 | reusable |
| Item | Price | Per child |
|---|---|---|
| Face Pack Paper A3, pack of 40Zart Art · 8 designs, features at ~80% life sizeThe single best-value item in this whole page. Pre-printed eyes, ears, noses and mouths to cut out and reassemble at different angles — it is the cubist move. Covers about 20 children. | $26.95 | $1.35 |
| Neon & Bright Coloured Paper A3, 500 sheetsZart Art · 12 colours, FSCFlat colour blocks as torn and cut paper instead of paint — which removes all drying time from a 90-minute session. | $61.55 | under $1 |
| Basics Oil Pastels Black, pack of 48Teacher Superstore · 5–7 day leadThe heavy cubist outline. Cheaper and far more expressive than markers for this age. Six sticks each in one pack. | $24.95 | $3.12 |
| Quill A3 200gsm School Board, 100 sheetsOfficeworks · online onlyThe heavyweight base. Cheapest confirmed heavyweight A3 anywhere, and Click & Collect in Melbourne same week. | $35.00 | $0.35 a sheet |
| Cardboard Fold-Up Face Mask, pack of 40Zart Art · clearance, 32% offThe 3D variant — decorate flat, then fold into a dimensional cubist face. A much better fit for 90 minutes than air-dry clay, which will not dry in session. | $27.50 | $3.44 |
| School Markers Black, pack of 48Zart Art · thick barrelCleaner outlines than pastel, but less painterly. Pick one or the other, not both. | $41.25 | $5.16 |
| People Art & Craft KitZart Art · 16 componentsSkin-tone crayons, paint sticks, pastels, markers, six acrylics in natural tones, earth-colour clay, pre-cut paper faces and hands. Close to the whole make in one order — but only sensible spread across five or more sessions. | $345.96 | $8.65* |
| Item | Price | Per child |
|---|---|---|
| School Painting Starter KitZart Art · kit code KIT141The biggest single "stop sourcing from scratch" purchase on this page: five 2L acrylics, 60 hog-hair brushes, 20 water pots, five palettes, 24 foam dabbers. The cool red/blue/yellow set is exactly right for teaching Starry Night's blue-to-yellow values. | $326.70 | $3–4* |
| Palette Knife Classroom Set of 36Zart Art · 6 styles, with drying trayThe impasto step. Four knives each means they swap styles mid-piece without stopping to wash — which matters at this length. | $60.45 | $0.75* |
| Modelling Paste Premium 500mlMont Marte · Australian brand, BrisbaneMixes straight into acrylic for coloured impasto. Likely stretches across two sessions. | $18.95 | $2.37 |
| 10×12″ Canvas Panels, 10 packArtoys · acid-free, primedBest-value painting surface found anywhere in this research — about half the per-board price of Zart, on a larger board. | $18.20 | $1.82 |
| Plastic Palette Knives, pack of 5Zart Art · 16–19cmA quarter of the outlay of the classroom set. Buy this to test the format before committing. | $7.95 | $1.59 |
| Artitude Canvas Panel Pack 9×12″, 5 packEckersley's · Melbourne shopfrontsDearer per board, but you can walk in the day before if an extra child books. | $22.50 | $4.50 |
| Basics Large Oil Pastels, pack of 48Zart Art · 10mm barrelThe swirl-drawing underlayer before paint goes on. Chunky enough to survive hard pressure. | $26.95 | $3.37 |
| Item | Price | Per child |
|---|---|---|
| Colour Apps Minis, pack of 12Zart Art · self-inking sponge dabbersCovers the entire dot-application step with no brushes, no water pots, no palettes — the biggest time saver in a 90-minute session. Clean crisp dots, water-based, reusable. | $31.85 | $0.40* |
| Polystyrene Balls 10cm, pack of 12Modern Teaching AidsThe 3D form each child paints and dots. Not pumpkin-shaped — paint it yellow and press a few vertical grooves and it reads as one. Cheapest credible sculptural body in Australia. | $19.25 | $1.60 |
| Avery dot stickers — 8mm, 14mm and 24mmOfficeworks · $11–12 each packBuy all three sizes: 1,316 dots across three scales for $35, which is what gives you Kusama's actual varying-dot rhythm rather than a uniform field. | $35.00 | $4.38 |
| 15cm Florentine Terracotta PotBunningsCheaper and far more durable than papier-mache, takes acrylic beautifully, and reads immediately as a Kusama vessel. The 9cm is $1.80. | $2.80 ea | $2.80 |
| Dot Markers, 6 packKmartTwo packs covers eight children for $20 against Zart's $31.85. Fewer colours and consumer-grade, but available same day in Melbourne. Seasonal line — check stock. | $10.00 | $2.50 |
| Round Dot Labels AssortedZart Art · 305 dots, 3 sizes, 7 coloursCheapest sticker option by a long way, but only about 38 dots each. Buy three or four packs. | $3.25 | $0.41 |
| Poly Half Balls 75mm, pack of 30Zart Art · 44c eachDotted domes — or glue all thirty to a board for a group obliteration panel to hang in the studio. | $13.15 | $0.44 |
| Dotty Sticker Art, pack of 8Baker Ross AUEight design sheets plus 15 sheets of assorted dot stickers. A zero-prep warm-up or early-finisher — the printed designs are pictorial, so not a substitute for the main make. | $11.55 | $1.44 |
Modern Teaching Aids, Riot Art & Craft, Lincraft, Spotlight and Eckersley's all render prices in a way that blocks automated reading, or block access entirely. Where an MTA price appears above it came from readable page data; several other MTA lines that look relevant — Creatistics canvas boards, Liquicryl 2L acrylic, unbreakable mirrors — could not be priced and are deliberately left out rather than guessed. MTA mainly serves schools, so confirm they will supply a private workshop before ordering.
An asterisk on a per-child figure means the cost is amortised across a series rather than charged to one session.