Ahoy me hearties!

Some of you know but some of you do not, I teach wargaming classes to middle school aged kids during the summer.

So I am working on next years' summer class schedule and would like to have a Sails of Glory class. i have a few questions for you all. But first a brief description. The students pay a tuition to the school for taking my classes. Most of my classes have the students take home miniatures after the class is over. Each class is 5 days and 2.5 hours long each day. To help keep the tuition down and affordable to the students, I purchase the miniatures out of my personal budget for each class.

With the recent budget cuts, my budget for the summer classes have been drastically reduced and leaves me two options.

1) To increase the tuition for each class to help pay for the miniatures but at the risk of having fewer kids in class

Or

2) keep the tuition low and use my personal miniatures in class but the kids would not take any mins home.

What do y'all think would be the best course of action?

Thanks for you input.