Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Lemonade Stand

What would summer be without a lemonade stand?? Well my kids thought it was a great idea to have a lemonade stand today. So, I made cherry Kool-Aid, my neighbor Anne made strawberry lemonade and my other neighbor made blue Gatorade. We hauled a table out to the sidewalk, set up the kids' homemade signs and voila we had a lemonade stand. We live on a well-trafficked road so they had no problem attracting customers. In the end they made $10.20. We divided it by 6 kids and each kid went home with $1.70.

Below are the happy entrepreneurs.

I thought the kids were so cute. One kid went down the block a ways and started trying to herd cars over to the stand. In the beginning they were all standing up but by the end they had hauled camping chairs, a radio and a garbage can over to their stand. Kids sure are funny. Now that I think about it, I never did a lemonade stand growing up. I am glad that my kids had fun with it.
Notice the cute sign they made below that reads "coolade" rather than "Kool-Aid". Too cute!!
Below is Emma stirring up the Gatorade. See how she is wearing a witch Halloween costume in the middle of summer to serve lemonade.

Happy summer everyone. Go make some lemonade.

2 comments:

The Haley Family said...

kids love lemonaide...and if they want to sit and wait for the nice people, more power to them!! :) Garage sales are GREAT for the suckers!!! ha ha

Ky said...

I love how you let your kids do this stuff...and how you understand how they feel with not singing for Father's day and all of that stuff. You guys are good parents. Not saying my parents are horrible or anything-I love them a lot. But with school I've learned a lot about kids and how to handle them and some traditional approaches that have been done with kids forever and ever really aren't the best. So good job. :)