One way for your kid entrepreneur to increase sales at their lemonade stand is to sell additional products beyond lemonade.  Once they have a customer placing an order, offering an add on product can dramatically increase their sales. 

When choosing add-on products, consider what will keep well sitting outside at your stand.  Also think about transportation and packaging.  If you will have to travel to your stand location, you will want something that will be easy to transport and won’t get damaged during the trip. 

Below are 3 recipes (from no-cook, to light cooking, to baking) we think are great lemonade stand add-ons:

 

TRAIL MIX:

The best thing about trail mix is that you can mix and match and be creative about what you put in it.   And it requires zero cooking.  Generally you combine a mixture of nuts, seeds, dried fruit grains and sweets to create the combination that can match the theme of your lemonade stand.

 

Here’s one recipe that we think is particularly tasty, and since it doesn’t have chocolate bits it won’t melt!

 

Tropical trail mix: 

• Cashews
• Brazil nuts
• Dried mango
• Coconut flakes
• Banana chips.

Recipe courtesy of https://greatist.com/health/21-healthier-trail-mix-ideas

 

STOVETOP POPCORN:

As any good beverage purveyor will attest to, having a salty snack will encourage customers to buy more drinks (in this case, lemonade!).  This recipe for popcorn is easy to make and doesn’t require that you purchase any special equipment.  You can also make a lot of popcorn for not much money.

 

Ingredients

• 3 Tbsp coconut, peanut, or canola oil (high smoke point oil)
• 1/3 cup of high quality popcorn kernels
• 1 3-quart covered saucepan
• 1 Tbsp or more (to taste) of butter (optional)
• Salt to taste

 

Directions

1. Heat the oil in a 3-quart thick-bottomed saucepan on medium high heat. If you are using coconut oil, allow all of the solid oil to melt.
2. Put 3 or 4 popcorn kernels into the oil.
3. When the kernels pop, add the rest of the 1/3 cup of popcorn kernels in an even layer. Cover, remove from heat and count 30 seconds.
4. Return the pan to the heat. The popcorn should begin popping soon, and all at once. Once the popping starts in earnest, gently shake the pan by moving it back and forth over the burner.Try to keep the lid slightly ajar to let the steam from the popcorn release (the popcorn will be drier and crisper).
5. Once the popping slows to several seconds between pops, remove the pan from the heat, remove the lid, and dump the popcorn immediately into a wide bowl.
6. If you are adding butter, you can easily melt it by placing the butter in the now empty, but hot pan. Just drizzle the melted butter over the popcorn and toss to distribute.

 

Recipe courtesy of http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/perfect_popcorn/

 

LEMON BARS:

When you are selling lemonade why not run with the lemon theme?  These tasty lemon bars will have customers puckering up for more.

 

Ingredients For Base

• 2 cups sifted flour
• 1⁄2 cup powdered sugar
• 1 cup butter

 

Ingredients For top

• 4 large beaten eggs
• 2 cups white sugar
• 1⁄3 cup lemon juice
• 1⁄4 cup flour
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon fresh lemon rind (optional)

 

Directions

1. For the base mix the butter into the flour and sugar.
2. Mix with hands until it clings together.
3. Press into a 13 x 9 x 2-inch pan.
4. Bake at 350°F for 20-25 minutes or until lightly browned.
5. For the filling, beat together eggs, sugar and lemon juice.
6. Sift together flour and baking powder.
7. Stir into egg mixture.
8. Pour over baked, cooled crust.
9. Bake at 350°F for 25 minutes.
10. Cool and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
11. Cut into bars.

Recipe courtesy of http://www.food.com/recipe/lemon-bars-9989

 

Do you want to participate in next year’s Lemonade Day? Contact your local city to find out how your child can learn to be an entrepreneur, or learn how you can volunteer in your community.

 

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.