With temperatures rising and many parts of the country thawing out from another cold winter, kids are getting excited for the start of their favorite time of year. No, not summer vacation, but close – Lemonade Day season!

Is your child registered for Lemonade Day 2017?

Every spring tens of thousands of kids across the country participate in Lemonade Day in their local area, and over 1 million kids have participated since 2007.   

Lemonade Day 2017 is just around the corner, and it’s time to register your kids!

Teaching Kids How to Make Opportunities

Kids in Kindergarten-5^th grades who participate learn how to start, own, and operate their own business—a lemonade stand, and gain invaluable life lessons.  Besides having fun outdoors, participants are introduced to the fundamentals of starting a business and learn to:

• Create and execute a business plan. 
• Develop a budget
• Set profit-making goals
• Engage in customer service
• Find and repay an investor
• Give back to the community

By learning these lessons early in life, kids are better prepared for the future and are more empowered to make their own opportunities now and in the future.

Building confidence

While Lemonade Day teaches kids great business and entrepreneurial skills, it also teaches lifelong personal skills such teamwork, confidence, responsibility, self-esteem and pride. These abilities are paramount to raising well-rounded, healthy children, things every parent strives for in the end.

Once registered, kids will have access to a host of resources, including Lemonade Day’s entrepreneurship program designed to teach entrepreneurial skills necessary to become a successful business owner and contributing member of the community.

Spend Some, Save Some and Share Some

While the program outlines everything that goes into creating and running a business, it also guides children with what to do with their money, once all expenses and investors are paid, by emphasizing the three important pillars of earning your own money:

Saving, Spending and Sharing. 

Children are encouraged to spend their money on something they want as a reward for their hard work, but they should also think about saving some of it for the future and possibly reinvesting it on their business, and sharing some of it with the community as a thank you for their support.

To find your city and register your child for an upcoming Lemonade Day in your community please visit our website.

About Lemonade Day

Lemonade Day is a non-profit dedicated to teaching every child across North America the business and financial skills that are the key ingredients of entrepreneurship. By learning these skills early in life, children will be better prepared to be successful, financially healthy adults. Through our fun, hands-on program Kids K-5 are empowered to start their very own business—a lemonade stand—and experience the feeling of earning real money, using 100% of their profit to spend, save and share based on their own goals.

Lemonade Day is in 62 cities throughout the United States. Over the past 10 years, we have served more than 1 million kids in our kid entrepreneur programs and in 2016 alone, 101,000 kids participated in Lemonade Day.

Visit LemonadeDay.org to learn how to participate in Lemonade Day in your city.