Lemonade Day Introduces Kids to Entrepreneurship
Lemonade Day, an annual event hosted in several U.S. cities, encourages kids to start a lemonade stand and help their community at the same time.
Lemonade store owners are loaned $20, which they promise to repay with interest. The budding entrepreneurs learn how to set goals, write a business plan and budget, find investors, and provide good customer service. They are encouraged to give back to the community in some way.
In its first year (2007), approximately 2,600 stands were set up in Houston. Since then it has grown to over 50,000 stands in that city, and to more than 30 cities across the U.S.
I learned about Lemonade Day through a story in my local newspaper. Scott Jones, an entrepreneur from Indianapolis,, has created a local foundation, Think Forward, to help back the program.
With this community event, schools, businesses, parents and kids all work together in a fun and educational way. Maybe your kids would like to participate next year! Read on to learn more.
Image Credit: LEMONADE Sign by eknklinks on Zazzle
May 5, 2013
OFFICIAL LEMONADE DAY SITE
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Lemonade Day 2013
Countdown to Lemonade Day
Lemonade Day Goal
100 cities and
1 millions stands
by 2013!
Click here to see cities that participated in 2011.
News Posts from Google
on Lemonade Day
- Kids learn business, life lessons on Lemonade Day
- By Suzanne S. Brown Seven-year-old Jordan Alexander, pictured at her family's Denver home, is participating in her second Lemonade Day. (AAron Ontiveroz, The Denver Post) Jordan Alexander might only be 7 years old but she has plenty of advice for her ...
- Lakewood To Host Lemonade Day June 30
- by Ian Andrews Local youth entrepreneurs will fan across the city setting up lemonade stands on June 30, 2012 as part of Lemonade Day Northeast Ohio. Coinciding with the CityWideStreetSale, this innovative, nation-wide program helps teach youth about ...
- Lemonade Day kits now available to youth
- BANGOR, Maine ? Capitalism and entrepreneurship were far from the thoughts of the 200 children playing at The Maine Jump entertainment complex on May 12, but one of them could become a Lemonade Day business leader. A man named Wise Lemon, ...
- Lemonade Day inspires children
- The young entrepreneurs recently set up their first business, a lemonade stand, joining kids throughout the country in observing National Lemonade Day. Lemonade Day, created by Texas charity Prepared 4 Life, is a movement that encourages children to ...
How to Make Lemonade out of Lemons
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Or Make it Fresh!
Perfect Lemonade Recipe from Simply Recipes
Simply Recipes
Ingredients
* 1 cup sugar (can reduce to 3/4 cup)
* 1 cup water (for the simple syrup)
* 1 cup lemon juice
* 3 to 4 cups cold water (to dilute)
Method
1 Make simple syrup by heating the sugar and water in a small saucepan until the sugar is dissolved completely.
2 While the sugar is dissolving, use a juicer to extract the juice from 4 to 6 lemons, enough for one cup of juice.
3 Add the juice and the sugar water to a pitcher. Add 3 to 4 cups of cold water, more or less to the desired strength. Refrigerate 30 to 40 minutes. If the lemonade is a little sweet for your taste, add a little more straight lemon juice to it.
Serve with ice, sliced lemons.
Serves 6.
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The Lemonade War
by Jacqueline Davies
From School Library Journal - "filled with real-life problems that relate to math, getting along with siblings and friends, dealing with pride, and determining right from wrong."
The Lemonade War (The Lemonade War Series)
Amazon Price: $1.95 (as of 06/01/2012)
List Price: $5.99
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Entrepreneurial Links
to Lemonade Stand Games & other things
- Play the Lemonade Stand Game
- Have you ever wondered if you would be good at running your own business? Well here is your chance! You now have your very own lemonade stand and 30 days to try and make some money.
- Another Lemonade Stand Game
- From Cool Math Games
- Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation
- While bravely battling her own cancer, Alex continued to hold yearly lemonade stands in her front yard to benefit childhood cancer research.
- Lemonade E-Commerce
- For many of us, setting up a neighborhood lemonade stand was our introduction to entrepreneurship. It taught us life lessons in responsibility, self-reliance and hard work. In a similar way, lemonade inc. enables people to combine commerce and community in the digital neighborhood of their personal online space. We are proud to be on the forefront of Consumer Generated CommerceTM. Cost-free and easy to use, this is the next generation of the old-fashioned Lemonade Stand concept.
Thanks for learning more about Lemonade Day...
Please share your thoughts.
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moonlitta
May 28, 2011 @ 4:12 pm | delete
- Such a refreshing, delicious and marvelous lens! Enterpreneurship should be taught developed early, I'm positive about that:!
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TheresaMarkham
Apr 12, 2011 @ 8:51 am | delete
- Add "The Lemonade War" book by Jacqueline Davies. Great 3rd/4th/5th grade book about just this topic - and it teaches kids about profits/losses/entrepreneurship too! Fabulous lens!
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kimmanleyort
Apr 12, 2011 @ 9:11 am | delete
- Thanks for the tip. I will add it.
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athomemomblog Apr 12, 2010 @ 2:54 pm | delete
- What a neat idea! My parents always encouraged my sisters and me to be entreprenurial, though I'm the only one that followed through on that to adulthood. I fully agree that kids should know how to run a business. Five stars and an angel blessing!
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bdkz
Mar 9, 2010 @ 8:16 pm | delete
- I want lemonade : ) What a great idea!
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