Little Henry sold homemade Lemonade.
They worked the sale from 9-2.
Their first customer bought all of the brownies and some lemonade. Then No customers for Hours.
They took one dollar out of the money they earned, and went to the dollar general around the corner from us, to get a poster board.
We had a new friend come by to help with the sale and she painted them a sign. The kids then took it to the busy corner near us about a block and a half away. They held the sign up trying to draw in more customers.
They succeeded in getting One customer. That's all they needed, the nice couple that stopped bought them out of everything they had left!!!
After the sale was over they paid back Mom for the baking mixes and lemonade supplies.
They ended up making 9 dollars each. Not bad for a Saturday afternoon adventure.
They learned that with work and advertising they can earn money but that you also have to spend money on supplies to make money.
Saturday had a temperature of 65 degree. Today on Sunday our high is 40 with rain and snow.... so it will be a while before they can attempt this or any of their other outdoor ways of earning money.
After the sale they didn't want to stop selling so they took mom's flyer's and goodie bags for my Jewelry in candles business and went off handing them out to everyone they know and their friends decided to help and took them to everyone they know too.
Results. Kids learned that money is earned and about paying expenses to find the profit. Mom got to watch them learn and got some free advertising done by the kids!! We made a new friend, kids ended up having a sleepover, and some pride in earning their own spending money.
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