Rates & Booking Information
Below you’ll find information about entertainer rates and booking balloon artists and face painters from Stretch and Company.
If you are just looking for the least expensive entertainers, they’re not here. However, if you are looking for top quality, professional entertainment that will wow your family, friends and guests; then you’ve come to the right place. Like many things in life, you get what you pay for, and cheaper is not always better. We take pride in our work, handle all events professionally and treat all of our clients like they are the most important people in the world to us. When you book entertainers from Stretch & Company, you can know that your guests will be more than satisfied with the quality of work that our entertainers provide, and you’ll be treated with the utmost professionalism and courtesy.
Our entertainers are specialists. When you book a face painter for an hour you’ll get a full hour of awesome face painting. Likewise, when you book a balloon artist you’ll get a full hour of fantastic balloon art. If you want balloons and face painting you’ll need to book 1 or more of each type of artist.
A balloon artist can create up to 25 sculptures per hour if they are simple, A face painter can paint up to 20 designs per hour if they’re simple. Fancier designs, or less cooperative kids will reduce these numbers accordingly. We prefer to limit birthday parties to an hour for every 15 kids so we can make nicer sculptures to make your child’s party even more special and memorable.
For private events there is a one hour minimum unless the event is more than 50 miles from us one way. If the event is over 50 miles from us there will be a 1½ hour minimum. For corporate events there is a 2 hour minimum.
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| Artist | Monday - Thursday Hourly Rate | Friday - Sunday/Holiday Hourly Rate |
| Stretch the Balloon Dude | $125.00 an hour | $150.00 an hour |
| Balloon Dawg & other Balloon Artists | $100.00 an hour | $125.00 an hour |
| Mrs Stretch, Sean, Tater, T-Dawg & other Face Painters | $100.00 an hour | $125.00 an hour |
| Airbrush Temporary Tattoos by Sean | $100.00 an hour | $125.00 an hour |
| Santa Claus | $150.00 an hour | $175.00 an hour |
| Discounted rates may be available for events using several artists, multiple hours or spanning multiple days. |
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Texas Heat
$25.00 Outdoor Fee
Texas Summers are hot and long. Working in the heat is not only uncomfortable for our entertainers, it is also hard on our supplies. Excessive heat and exposure to sunlight causes balloons to pop more and makes paints melt and become more difficult to work with. Outdoor events that are booked from June 1st through September 30th will have an Outdoor Fee of $25.00 per entertainer added to them. If your event is an outdoor event please make sure that our entertainers have adequate shade to help minimize the detrimental effects of direct sunlight and heat on them and their balloons or face paint.
Travel Fees
If your event is 25 or more miles from us there will be a mileage fee added to compensate for the extra time and gas that will be invested in getting to and from your event. The travel fee will be added to the total due.
| Distance 1-Way | 0 to 24 miles | 25 to 49 miles | 50 to 74 miles | 75 to 89 miles | 90 or more miles |
| Travel Fee | $0.00 | $25.00 | $50.00 | $75.00 | Daily Rates |
Daily Rates The daily fee covers up to 5 (five) hours of entertainment. Additional hours of entertainment may be purchased for $100.00 per hour. The half day rate would occur for an event scheduled in the early morning or late evening where travel would be best done either the day before or the day after the event. Booking Agreements and Booking Fees
When you call to schedule your event, we will pencil your event in on our calendar and send you a Booking Agreement. A 20% (Twenty Percent) Non-Refundable Booking Fee will be required to secure your date and time slot. This fee is due upon booking and will be deducted from the total due at the event. Please look over the agreement to confirm that we have all of the details correct and then sign and return it. The Booking Fee may be paid by check or online with a credit card through PayPal.com. The Booking Agreement and Booking Fee must be received within 3 (three) business days or your event may be pre-empted by another event. The date is not set until we receive your signed Booking Agreement and Booking Fee. Please check for availability by clicking the calendar image below to visit our online calendar page. Charity Work
If you are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, please understand that we cannot donate our services to everyone who makes a request. We will gladly donate an hour of our time for every hour that you book at full rate. If you would like to have us at your event, but can’t afford to pay, you may want to consider getting a sponsor to pay for our services. We will gladly wear shirts advertising the sponsor and allow them to post signs advertising their sponsorship. They can also post volunteers where we are working to hand out brochures, business cards, or other information about their services. The sponsor gets tax deductible advertising, you get entertainers and we get to work, it’s a win-win situation for everyone.
A merry heart does good like a medicine.
Any events requiring travel of 90 or more miles one-way will be booked at a daily rate because it will most likely prevent us from accepting any other gigs on that day. Expenses are travel costs and accomodations if an overnight stay is required. If the timing of the event requires overnight stays there will be a half day charge for the previous or following day due to the fact that travel will prevent booking any gigs during travel time.
Artist
Fri. - Sun. Daily Rate
Mon. - Thu. Daily Rate
Half Day Rate
Stretch the Balloon Dude
$750.00 Plus Expenses
$625.00 Plus Expenses
$350.00
All other Artists
$625.00 Plus Expenses
$500.00 Plus Expenses
$300.00
Santa Stretch
$875.00 Plus Expenses
$750.00 Plus Expenses
$400.00
Discounted rates are available for events spanning multiple days.
Please call or email to discuss the details and expenses of events requiring a daily rate.
A $35.00 fee will be added to any check returned for insufficient funds or any other reason.
Rescheduling Events
If you have to reschedule your event there is a 25% (Twenty-Five Percent) rescheduling fee. This is to compensate for the fact that we have possibly turned downed event requests for your original time slot and will now have to reschedule our entertainers, if possible, to cover the new date. We understand that life happens and will do our best to make sure your event is covered in the event that you have to reschedule, but we cannot guarantee availability in these cases.
We donate our services for free to Children’s Medical Center of Dallas and the North Texas Make-A-Wish Foundation because of the support and services they provided when our 7 year old son Keenan was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Although they were not able to save our son, the work they did, and continue to do is incredible and we will continue to support them in any way possible for as long as we are able.
Proverbs 17:22