Five afternoons. One real idea. A complete plan they built themselves.

Most spring break plans are forgotten by the following Monday. This one leaves something behind.

Here is an honest question: at the end of spring break, what do you want your child to have done? Not just watched, or scrolled, or passed the time — but actually done?

Because there is a version of this week where your child spends five afternoons building a lemonade business from scratch. Where they set their own goals, work out their own pricing, design their own brand, and stand behind their own pitch. Where they find out what it actually feels like to take an idea seriously and see it through.

That is exactly what Spring Break Camp: My Lemonade Day is.

This is not pretend play

Let’s be clear about what this is not. It is not a craft project with a lemonade theme. It is not a worksheet about money. It is not a week of loosely structured activities with a business buzzword on the flyer.

It is structured, mentor-guided entrepreneurship — built around the Lemonade Day framework — where every student moves step by step through the same thinking any real entrepreneur has to do.

Every student leaves Friday with a complete, ready-to-execute lemonade business plan — goals they set themselves, pricing they worked out, a brand they designed, and a launch strategy they can actually use.

That is a real thing. Something they built. Something that belongs to them.

What the week looks like

My Goals

Students develop an entrepreneurial mindset, identify their strengths, and set personal and business goals. The week starts not with a lesson — but with a decision about who they want to become.

My Plan, Part 1

Students begin building their real business plan. They explore pricing, expenses, and profit — not as abstract concepts, but applied directly to their own business. Numbers become real when they’re yours.

My Plan, Part 2

Students refine their business plan, develop a simple marketing strategy, and prepare a funding pitch. By midweek, they are not just learning about business — they are practicing it.

My Stand

Students design their brand, develop signage concepts, determine inventory needs, and prepare for real customers. Every detail gets a decision — and every decision belongs to them.

My Results and Launch Plan

Students calculate projected profit, finalize their launch strategy, and reflect on how far they’ve come. They leave with a finished plan — and the experience of knowing they built it themselves.

What students walk away with

• A true entrepreneurial growth mindset
• Practical financial literacy skills
• Confidence in pitching and presenting their ideas
• Experience solving real-world problems
• A structured, ready-to-execute business plan
• Ownership of something they built themselves

Why it matters that they do it now

We tend to treat entrepreneurship as something adults do — after school, after college, after they’ve figured everything else out. But the skills underneath it — financial thinking, clear communication, resilience, problem-solving — are not adult skills. They are human skills. And they develop best when kids start practicing them young.

At the Society of Child Entrepreneurs, we believe children are leaders right now. Not someday. When we give them real responsibility in a safe, structured environment, they don’t shrink from it. They rise to meet it.

What a child learns from pricing their own product and pitching their own idea cannot come from a worksheet. It is the experience of taking yourself seriously — and finding out that works.

Spring Break Camp: My Lemonade Day

Registration closes Saturday, March 14.

March 16–20, 2026 1:00–4:00 PM daily
206 N Main St, Goddard, KS
Ages 7–14

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“When children are trusted with real responsibility,
they rise.”