First Lemonade Stand of the Season

The girls had been asking when they could do a lemonade stand, so Saturday afternoon, the weather cleared finally and they set up shop. They sold lemonade cups for a quarter and later added ice pops (also for a quarter). Through the generosity of neighbors they made over $14.00 on 45 cups of lemonade.

Yay! We're making money.

Yesterday I had them jointly make a lapbook to have the event count as an educational activity. They had to describe the step-by-step process of setting up a lemonade stand, included these photos and labeled them, and then did the math on gross, cost and net gain. Finally we decided on how to use the money. They are going to give almost all their proceeds to tornado relief in our area (probably through Samaritan's Purse Ministries). So, we'll be having successive lemonade stands, and probably we'll vary the refreshments; hopefully they should be able to generate some good income for tornado relief.