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Trying to find activities for your children this summer?

Then how about making a lemonade stand together?

This fun summer project can give you and your child some quality time together, and help your kids to feel independent by doing something to earn their own money.

Planning and running their own lemonade stand in the summer can be a good way for them to accomplish this goal,  a great way for you teach them about running a small business, and a way to have fun together. Not to mention, a great chance to get some fantastic photos for your summer digital scrapbooking projects too!

Together with your children map out a plan for your lemonade stand, this shows them about how to plan a project and make a checklist.

Items you might want to include in your checklist for making the lemonade stand:

• A card table
• A paper or plastic tablecloth
• Folding chairs
• A banner
• A money box
• Decorations
• Tape
• Ingredient list
• Flyers
• Paper cups

Also, other things you might want to consider are picking a location in your neighborhood that you think will be profitable, and safe.  Decide how much you will need to charge for the lemonade in order to make a profit. You may wish to make an Ingredient list for your customers in case someone asks what is in the lemonade, that way your child doesn’t have to remember but can refer them to the ingredient list.

You might wish to make a flyer that includes dates when you will be back again so customers can plan to stop by next time you are out with your lemonade.

Also, if you plan to sell other items like cookies, you will need to  choose what kind, and a price, and ingredient lists for them as well.

Remember you can use your digital scrapbooking talents to design great flyers, ingredient lists and banners! This alone will put your lemonade stand above the rest! You will need a good lemonade recipe so before you make the next checklist you might want to check this blog article as it list several lemonade recipes  ~ Got a Good Lemonade Recipe?

Next with your children make another checklist, this time of all the things you will need to make the lemonade.

Here are the things you will need to make basic lemonade:

• Fresh Lemons
• Ice
• Sugar
• Cold Water
• Pitcher
• Mixing Spoon
• A cooler

After making the list for the lemonade, you can help your children to get all of the items that are on the list. It is fun for a child to check each item off as you get it so that you can keep up with what you have and what you still need to get. You point out to your child that some of the items may all ready be things that you have around the house and that you should gather those first. Any other items that you don’t have, can be purchased from a store, and you and your children can plan a trip to pick up those items too.

Other Lemonade Stand Ideas:

Print out some fliers advertising the lemonade stand and hand them out to people in the neighborhood the day before you plan to be open. Let them know where and when you will be open for business.

This will help build interest in your lemonade stand even before you sell the first cup of lemonade!

It is easy to make the flyers in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements using scrapbooking supplies, and you might even encourage your child to help with the design and printing.

Also, you might sale a digital album of lemonade and cookie recipes that the customers could buy with their cups of lemonade. Say, for one or two dollars you would take down their email address and email them a digital recipe book of lemonade recipes! This would bring in extra money too! Have a printed out sample on hand for customers to look at when they are enjoying their cup of lemonade. (See yesterday’s blog article – Turn Lemons into Lemonade and Make a Digital Recipe Book – for more information on making a digital recipe book)

This is a great time to teach your children to be courteous and friendly to the customers. Remind them that good manners is good business, and this will keep customers  coming back for your lemonade day after day when they have a good experience. Without customers, there is no one to buy the lemonade, cookies and digital albums!

Another idea  – You might want to have your children raise money for a charity instead of keeping the income for themselves. See Take a Stand for Charity and Choose a Charity. Also see this press release – SUNKIST AND ALBERTSONS “TAKE A STAND” TO ENCOURAGE KIDS TO SELL FRESH-SQUEEZED LEMONADE FOR CHARITY

Planning and running a lemonade stand can be the place where your child starts to learn the great lives lessons, and you can help guide that too.

Remember to include your camera and get shots of planning, and setting up your lemonade stand. As well as serving your customers too!

Then take the photos and scrap the event to keep the precious lessons and memories alive!

Have a great day, and make a lemonade stand with your children today!

Enjoy!

PS. Here are some additional resources that you might find helpful for running a Lemonade Stand:

Sunkist Safety List for Lemonade Stands ~ from Sunkist

Sunkist Young Entrepreneur Tips for a Lemonade Stand ~ from Sunkist

More lemonade Recipes ~  Got a Good Lemonade Recipe? Or a Great Quick Page for Digital Scrapping Fast?

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Here are the Scrap Kits used in this article so you can scrap your own lemonade stand experience!

The Lemonade Stand Digital Scrapbooking Kit 1 (12×12″) is filled with lemon and other citrus inspired papers and embellishments!  Use the Lemonade Digital Scrapbooking Kit to create unforgettable Digital Scrapbooking Projects of a hot summer day, lemonade stands, or family time together and more! This kit has 8 large 12×12″ size digital papers! They are great to use for traditional size digital scrapbooking projects.

Together with your children map out a plan for your lemonade stand, which is a great way to get some fantastic photos for your summer digital scrapbooking projects, and a fun way to use this scrapbooking kit that has a lemonade stand theme!

The Lemonade Stand Digital Scrapbooking Kit 2 (11×8.5″) is filled with lemons and other citrus inspired digital papers and embellishments!  This kit has 8 regular 11×8.5″ size digital papers, that are the perfect size for home printing projects! Also this size is great for calendar pages and other digital scrapbooking projects!

Use the Lemonade Digital Scrapbooking Kit to create unforgettable Digital Scrapbooking Projects of all the hot summer days, lemonade stands, or when the family gathers on the porch for a cold lemonade, or other hot weather digi-scrap projects! Also, make a digital recipe book and add your favorite lemonade recipe to the book. Just add your lemonade recipe to the include recipe card and then scrap your page and share your recipe to all your friends and family!

The Lemonade Stand Quick Page Kit 1 8.5×11″ is full of fun citrus colors to celebrate summer, or making lemonade stand, a cookout, or for creating a lemonade recipe book!  This kit also is formatted at the US Paper size (8.5×11″ inches) which makes it great for printing projects at home- right off your home printer! The Quick Page Kit comes with 6 Quick Pages that are great for recipe books or photo albums, summer journaling, and more!

This is a great kit to use with photos of family activities like building a lemonade stand, picnics with lemonade on the side, hot summer days on the porch chatting and drinking lemonade, for summer cookouts, picnics, the backyard BBQ, days at the park, sport events, family reunions, summer camp fun, swimming at the pool, and other summer events! This kit includes 2 cover Quick Pages that makes it easy to make a digital album, or recipe book. Other Quick Pages in this kit have recipe cards for you to add your favorite recipes!